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Vitalogensia

HughFreakingDillon said:

just watched that. "don't look at it". these people don't give a flying fuck about logic or separation of church and state. they blather on endlessly about the founding fathers and their intent, but when it comes to this issue, they toss the constitution out. 

Exactly. Couldn't the same "don't look at it" be said of drag shows or Pride month?  Of course not, because logical conditions of a cogent argument isn't their thing: bitching is.  

Halifax2TheMax

And when SCOTUS rules in their favour, POOTWH, along with a repub congress, will sign a bill making any public school that receives federal funding shall be required to post the Ten Commandments that themselves don’t follow. Louisiana- welcomes you to your future.

gimmesometruth27

who is going to teach them about the commandments? will they just be on the wall there, or is the teacher supposed to teach them about them?

what will they say when they get to the one about do not commit adultery, like the man in the picture on the wall that is the twice impeached president of the united states?

also the one about coveting thy neighbor's goods. don't they know that coveting thy neighbors goods is what keeps the economy going? your neighbor gets something cool, you want to get it too.

Halifax2TheMax

Yup, those freedom loving literal original constitutionalist really do believe in the Bill of Rights, the constitution and freedom of speech and assembly. No, really they do. So, so snowflakey. Suckers.

Protesters won’t have access to Milwaukee park eyed near GOP convention venue 

Officials announced in Friday that two smaller parks — including one further away from the site — will be the designated protest zones during the event.

Protesters headed to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July will not be allowed to use a large park near the convention venue that had been eyed for demonstrations. Officials in charge of the convention’s security announced Friday that two smaller parks — including one further away from the site — will be the designated protest zones during the event.

The decision comes after a months-long pressure campaign by prominent Republicans who had raised safety concerns about holding demonstrations in Pere Marquette Park, a large outdoor area close to Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum.

Both Republican and Democratic Party officials are expecting large protests for their conventions this summer, and GOP officials expressed fear that demonstrators and convention attendees could clash if they were in proximity.

At a news conference in Milwaukee on Friday, city and federal authorities displayed a map showing that Pere Marquette Park would be located within the convention’s inner security perimeter — meaning that only individuals with a documented need to enter, such as convention attendees and volunteers, will be allowed through.

The authorities said that the protest zones would be located at two sites on opposite ends of the convention’s outer security perimeter, an area where vehicles must be screened but that generally remains accessible to the public.

One of the zones, Haymarket Square Park, is just northeast of Fiserv Forum. Another zone, Zeidler Union Square, is five blocks south of Fiserv Forum.

The fight over the location of the convention’s “First Amendment zone” has stretched for several months among top Republican Party officials, Secret Service officials and local officials in Wisconsin.

City leaders have said they are required to have a designated area within “sight and sound” of the convention area, and they wanted to use Pere Marquette Park. They also said they were going to use the same park for the Democratic National Convention in 2020, which was scuttled because of the pandemic.

When asked if the RNC was satisfied with the plan for the two protest zones, convention spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement that ensuring safety while also standing up for First Amendment rights “have always been topmost priorities” for the convention.

“We look forward to continuing to collaborate closely with the U.S. Secret Service as well as local law enforcement to ensure the best possible convention experience for everyone,” Desai added.

The ACLU of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit against the city of Milwaukee earlier this month over demonstrators being denied an area within “sight and sound” of the convention area. Although parties attempted to mediate, ACLU of Wisconsin staff attorney Tim Muth said in a statement on Friday that “the divide was too great to bridge” and they’re proceeding with their case.

“We were surprised and disappointed to see how many blocks of Downtown Milwaukee the Secret Service has declared off limits to anyone but convention attendees. The large size of this zone makes it more critical than ever that the City take steps to allow for effective opportunities for expression and assembly by those with differing viewpoints,” Muth said in his statement, later adding that the “expansion of the credentialed zone all the way to the Milwaukee River and including Pere Marquette Park cannot be justified.”

In a tense 45-minute meeting last month, U.S. Secret Service officials said they were aware of no “unrest” related to the protests in the park. Many local activists have said they fear Republicans just want to move protesters farther away from the GOP’s presidential nominee, Donald Trump, and believe they should be closer than Pere Marquette Park, not farther away.

In his statement on Friday, Muth called the security perimeter’s expansion “an impermissible concession to the Republican National Committee, which did not want to see or hear demonstrators near its convention.”

At the two demonstration zones, the city of Milwaukee will provide speaker’s platforms with audio equipment and a podium. There have been more than 100 applications filed by individuals wanting to speak at the designated platforms, the officials said at Friday’s news conference.

A parade for demonstrators is also expected to take place around Zeidler Union Square for the four days of the convention.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/06/21/gop-convention-protesters-milwaukee-park/

Halifax2TheMax

And the party of law and order practicing what they preach. And exercising their 2A rights while sexually assaulting someone. Allegedly.

Michigan lawmaker faces sex assault investigation after 3 a.m. arrest

Police recommended multiple felony charges, including assault and a weapons offense, against Republican state Rep. Neil Friske.

A conservative state lawmaker in Michigan is facing a sexual assault investigation after he was arrested just before 3 a.m. Thursday in Lansing.

The Lansing Police Department on Friday requested felony charges of sexual assault, assault and a weapons offense against Rep. Neil Friske, a 62-year-old Republican representing parts of northern Michigan who is seeking reelection this year.

Friske did not immediately respond to a request for comment Friday.

Friske had not been formally charged as of Friday afternoon. According to the office of Ingham County Prosecutor John J. Dewane (D), an investigation is ongoing into the late-night incident, which began when police responded to reports of a man with a gun and possible shots fired.

“During the course of the initial investigation, law enforcement officers learned of a possible sexual assault of an adult female and they arrested a 62-year old male, Kornelius Friske,” Dewane’s office said, using the lawmaker’s full first name.

Police arrested Friske around 2:45 a.m. Thursday and took him into custody. The block where police said Friske was arrested is where he purchased a condo in January, according to property records.

The lawmaker was released Friday.

Hours after Friske’s early-morning arrest Thursday, his campaign defended him in a statement, writing: “As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his 2nd Amendment right.”

In its statement, Friske’s campaign cast the arrest as suspicious due to the forthcoming release of absentee ballots for Michigan’s Aug. 6 primary. The campaign also accused Friske’s “opponent” of having “deep-state ties” but did not specify whether it was referencing his Republican primary challenger or the Democrat vying to represent Michigan’s 107th District.

Parker Fairbairn, Friske’s Republican primary challenger, in a statement Friday said Friske deserves “the presumption of innocence until proven guilty” but called the assemblyman’s voting record “abysmal and immoral.”

“Neil deserves his time in court, and the people of the 107th deserve better than Neil,” Fairbairn said.

As a member of the conservative Michigan House Freedom Caucus, Friske has supported hard-line immigration policies and introduced legislation to curb abortion access, including an unsuccessful bill that would have banned the use of prescription pills for medication-induced abortions.

Friske’s critics in the state’s Democrat-led legislature demanded accountability for the Republican lawmaker, with State Rep. Phil Skaggs (D) saying on X that if the sexual assault allegations are true, Friske should “resign from the Michigan House immediately.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/21/neil-friske-arrested-gun-michigan/

mickeyrat

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mickeyrat

Vitalogensia

Boebert won her primary by nearly 30 percentage points?  Well, if that isn't fucking hysterical, I'm not sure what is.

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@barbaraj.sobel/post/C8ung_Pp0Bl/?xmt=AQGzzHFBH_CKOcNtUNdZdDnP_2EFMIBsrlcpLk-MFSRtEg

cblock4life

I don’t know where to put it but obviously the GOP is behind this

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-superintendent-orders-schools-teach-bible-ryan-walters/

gimmesometruth27

Vitalogensia said:

Boebert won her primary by nearly 30 percentage points?  Well, if that isn't fucking hysterical, I'm not sure what is.

i guess district 4 is just fine with her. people there had called her a carpetbagger, but still voted for her.

mickeyrat

gimmesometruth27 said:

Vitalogensia said:

Boebert won her primary by nearly 30 percentage points?  Well, if that isn't fucking hysterical, I'm not sure what is.

i guess district 4 is just fine with her. people there had called her a carpetbagger, but still voted for her.

Colorado 4th Congressional district Population (2022)  748,891[2]

mickeyrat

putting this here, bbecause it seems this is where the problem lies. essay from 2022

https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/08/22/our-young-men-deserve-better-than-maga-masculinity/?utm_campaign=coschedule&utm_source=facebook_page&utm_medium=John+Pavlovitz&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3soCT6tMUYr9j4Kp_fT2W17_Go8fyU_d0LtOh7-YjL_XuKhilspvr8zB8_aem_Ypca3BFZoh2rcXix3gaTUQ

 

Our Young Men Deserve Better Than MAGA Masculinity

• August 22, 2022
• John Pavlovitz

While so many people have openly and rightly lamented the devastating effect the misogynistic MAGA movement is having on girls and young women, we’ve forgotten something critical: our sons have been watching and listening, too.

I’m not sure we’ve stopped to think about what kind of young men we’re creating right now, that we’ve considered the collateral damage of these days on the boys in our collective care. 

I don’t think we can fathom what so many of MAGA America’s sons are likely to grow into:

men with a dangerous sense of entitlement when it comes to the bodies of women.
men for whom violent, hateful, objectifying words about women are viewed as normal.
men who believe that money and power and their penises give them license to do whatever they want with a woman regardless of what she wants.
men who inherit a religion that dehumanizes women.
men for whom the very idea of consent is irrelevant.
men who believe they will get rewarded for their misogyny and sexism and moral filth, because they’ve watched it happen.
men who grow to have no value for gentleness and sensitivity and empathy.

Just before the 2016 election, I remember my then 11-year old son asking me what Donald Trump had said about women in the audio that had been unearthed and was being talked about. I did the best I could to relay it all without using the actual words, because to use the actual words Trump used, would have meant subjecting my son to the kind of vile vulgarity that isn’t normal and shouldn’t be normal for 11-year old boys—or to men of integrity of any age.

The fact that a man with such a well-documented pattern of misogyny and mistreatment became the earthly messiah for so many professed Christians, should be cause for national mourning among decent Americans and effusive repentance within decent followers of Jesus. We should be sick to our stomachs right now, watching an entire political party dismantling the rights of women and realizing how poisonous this all is to the hearts and minds of our boys who will emulate these assaults. We should be openly condemning it all, if we had any regard for them and any interest in who they are becoming.

That so many fathers (and mothers) are not doing so, means that maybe Donald Trump and this predatory Republican Party are exactly the correct people to represent us in the world at this point. Maybe that is how low the bar we’ve set for our young men really is. Maybe these millions of MAGA disciples are a true measure of the hatred so many men have toward women and the self-loathing too many of the women around them are afflicted with.

All I know, is that there is a terrible trickle-down from the Supreme Court, the halls of Congress, and the pulpits of megachurches—and into the homes and hallways where young boys are having their brains formed, their morality shaped, and their standards established.

I have better dreams for my son than this.

I want him to know that girls and women, that all people—are worthy of respect and decency and gentleness.
I want him to know that dehumanizing a woman is never normal: not in a locker room or a frat party or a board room or a bedroom or a court room.
I want him to know that another woman’s body is not his jurisdiction.
I want him to know that a woman’s outward no is louder than his internal yes.
I want him to know that there is a huge difference between being a man—and being a gentleman.

I believe my son deserves better than this toxic, fragile MAGA masculinity.

All our sons do.

They deserve a higher definition of what it means to be a man than what they’re seeing in the Republican Evangelical platform.

They deserve a Christianity that isn’t as pliable as the Conservative Right and so many professed believers have made it, in order to accommodate the moral cancer of Trumpism.

They also deserve better than to see adults making excuses for the misogyny they have so easily sanctioned with their votes. They deserve parents, mentors, and role models who won’t sell their souls to align with a party just to retain power.

I dream that my son becomes a man who recognizes women as valuable and equal and worthy of respect. Because of that, I’m going to shout down all the voices that would speak something different into his ears, even if those voices are of family members, friends, pastors, politicians, and former presidents.

Rationalizing personal or legislative violence toward women and dressing it up in the trappings of religion, are the best ways to ensure that too many of our boys grow-up to become abusive men who have contempt for women and believe that to be what all real men do. I refuse to participate in that.

At this point, opposing a platform of misogyny shouldn’t be seen as a political strategy—but a human decency move. There shouldn’t be an alternative side to choose here, not if we want to teach our young people to become adults of character.

Right now my son and millions of other bright and beautiful boys with big hearts and bigger questions are watching and listening.

The MAGA movement and its surrogates are failing them.

The rest of us must not.

mickeyrat

kill them....

https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C9C-vFRgbk_/?xmt=AQGzloD-tAeZKGpOp5Vq_Xj8hZUOQ1BmIgNfnuBsToHEFQ

Halifax2TheMax

It’s okay. Really, it is. Don’t worry about it. It’s just FEMA camps for liberals. And we were told it couldn’t happen here.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/08/us/patriot-front-white-nationalist-group/index.html

mickeyrat

https://www.threads.net/@bidenharrishq/post/C9LGSYXsYxX/?xmt=AQGzTs8UaGePCkNeKGjK13Wik1tBfCNqjY_GphVVNGnHQA

Halifax2TheMax

A little under four months to the election and there’s this. Sure, the repub alternative is a better option.

“As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” said Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”

OnWis97

Halifax2TheMax said:

A little under four months to the election and there’s this. Sure, the repub alternative is a better option.

“As things stand right now, there’s a zero percent chance of a free and fair election,” said Mike Howell, executive director of Heritage’s Oversight Project. “I’m formally accusing the Biden administration of creating the conditions that most reasonable policymakers and officials cannot in good conscience certify an election.”

America is ready for dictatorship. It's time.

mickeyrat

giggle....

video included

https://www.threads.net/@heartlandsignal/post/C9dPDUSNK5T/?xmt=AQGzzfo8NBf8sPq2y4Bt_sqY1DBhtjwc8cypyNrv-dXvsQ

https://www.threads.net/@acynig/post/C9dfWH7SEv0/?xmt=AQGz4F3Kdr-f0gmOsuaQP8z7G8dbD5a6PlJDc31j-yTFAA

CM189191

If you want to know someone's character, look at the company that person keeps

Republican Sexual Predators, Abusers, and Enablers
https://www.dailykos.com/history/user/CajsaLilliehook

1,500+ self-identified Conservatives & Republicans
(probably with a few Libertarians sprinkled in for good measure)
((0 drag queens))