Well, well, well. These disingenuous sons of bitches just don't quit.
Just going along with the cult.
Former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him hinges on his allegation of widespread voter fraud, which has been widely debunked by numerous courts and state reviews.
Florida has two men who have admitted to committing the crime — in the Republican stronghold of The Villages.
And one was a vocal supporter of the former president before he was charged.
As our colleague Eugene Scott reports, the two men, Charles F. Barnes and Jay Ketcik, reside in the large retirement enclave in Sumter County, Fla. They pleaded guilty to submitting ballots in two states.
While voter fraud is a third-degree felony that can result in a maximum five-year prison sentence, Barnes, 64, and Ketcik, 63, can avoid punishment if, among other requirements set by a state attorney, they complete 50 hours of community service, attend an adult civics class (which they must pass with a C grade or above) and meet with a supervising officer.
Florida, Trump’s latest home state, may find more instances of voter fraud. Per Eugene:
According to the Florida Secretary of State’s office, Florida election officials referred 75 individuals to law enforcement agencies due to potential voter fraud in the 2020 election.
This is who the POOTWH GOP are supporting and are okay with Putin on the ritz doing his thing.
RIGA, Latvia — After a month of fighting, the architects of Moscow’s war against Ukraine had to explain to Russians why Kyiv had not fallen. That’s when the most menacing rhetoric began.
On state television, a military analyst doubled down on Russia’s need to win and called for concentration camps for Ukrainians opposed to the invasion.
Two days later, the head of the defense committee in the lower house of parliament said it would take 30 to 40 years to “reeducate” Ukrainians.
And on a talk show, the editor in chief of the English-language television news network RT described Ukrainians’ determination to defend their country as “collective insanity.”
“It’s no accident we call them Nazis,” said Margarita Simonyan, who also heads the Kremlin-backed media group that operates the Sputnik and RIA Novosti news agencies. “What makes you a Nazi is your bestial nature, your bestial hatred and your bestial willingness to tear out the eyes of children on the basis of nationality.”
Russia’s astonishing shift toward genocidal speech has been swift and seamless. Moscow officials stepped up warnings that Russia was fighting for its survival. Pundits condemned peace talks and scorned troops’ withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas.
The change of gears, signaling a brutal occupation, appeared deliberate and coordinated in a nation where detailed Kremlin orders on messaging are handed down regularly to state media.
The threat of Nazism is one of the Kremlin’s most brazen themes. Last week, RIA Novosti ran a prominent opinion piece by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev, an outspoken supporter of Putin, that urged the liquidation of the entire Ukrainian elite, the division of the country, destruction of its sovereignty and even the abolition of its name.
“Denazification will inevitably be de-Ukrainization,” Sergeitsev wrote, requiring years of ideological repression and severe censorship in political, cultural and educational fields. Ordinary Ukrainians were complicit and must suffer the “inevitable hardships of a just war” before total submission to Russian power “as a historical lesson and atonement for their guilt.”
All of that sniveling about Brandon’s supply chain issues out in Cali a month or so ago and not a peep about what Gubner Abbot & Costello is doing in Tejas? Color me shocked at the hypocrisy.
ah yes, the party of no ideas other than "waaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" does not want to say that out loud on tv. imagine that.
cowards.
Imagine giving money to or pulling the lever for a party like that? But hey! Who knows, maybe with the time they save prepping for a debate or two, they’ll come up with that big, beautiful, cheaper health plan in all its brilliant, brilliance of brilliancy?
I'd go with Tiffany Haddish, but the heart wants what it wants, I suppose.
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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.
If they are flipping off the fuck Biden flag doesn't that make it a double negative Fuck "fuck Biden" then equals to no fucks anywhere. These people confuse me.
If they are flipping off the fuck Biden flag doesn't that make it a double negative Fuck "fuck Biden" then equals to no fucks anywhere. These people confuse me.
It's almost as if they don't know what to do with their hands when not posing with their AR-15s. Wait for the Christmas card, kids. Let's Go Santa!
imagine deliberately causing economic sabotage for the american economy for the sake of getting power that you will do nothing with because you have no ideas and you do not know how to legislate. that is where the gop is at right now.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
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.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.- Hemingway
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.
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 theLos 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 justpicturesque.”
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.
Trump backs GOP’s JD Vance in US Senate primary in Ohio
By JILL COLVIN and JULIE CARR SMYTH
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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.
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.
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
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another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
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.
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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?
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you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
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Former president Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him hinges on his allegation of widespread voter fraud, which has been widely debunked by numerous courts and state reviews.
Florida has two men who have admitted to committing the crime — in the Republican stronghold of The Villages.
And one was a vocal supporter of the former president before he was charged.
As our colleague Eugene Scott reports, the two men, Charles F. Barnes and Jay Ketcik, reside in the large retirement enclave in Sumter County, Fla. They pleaded guilty to submitting ballots in two states.
While voter fraud is a third-degree felony that can result in a maximum five-year prison sentence, Barnes, 64, and Ketcik, 63, can avoid punishment if, among other requirements set by a state attorney, they complete 50 hours of community service, attend an adult civics class (which they must pass with a C grade or above) and meet with a supervising officer.
Florida, Trump’s latest home state, may find more instances of voter fraud. Per Eugene:
Read more about the case here.
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RIGA, Latvia — After a month of fighting, the architects of Moscow’s war against Ukraine had to explain to Russians why Kyiv had not fallen. That’s when the most menacing rhetoric began.
On state television, a military analyst doubled down on Russia’s need to win and called for concentration camps for Ukrainians opposed to the invasion.
Two days later, the head of the defense committee in the lower house of parliament said it would take 30 to 40 years to “reeducate” Ukrainians.
And on a talk show, the editor in chief of the English-language television news network RT described Ukrainians’ determination to defend their country as “collective insanity.”
“It’s no accident we call them Nazis,” said Margarita Simonyan, who also heads the Kremlin-backed media group that operates the Sputnik and RIA Novosti news agencies. “What makes you a Nazi is your bestial nature, your bestial hatred and your bestial willingness to tear out the eyes of children on the basis of nationality.”
Russia’s astonishing shift toward genocidal speech has been swift and seamless. Moscow officials stepped up warnings that Russia was fighting for its survival. Pundits condemned peace talks and scorned troops’ withdrawal from Kyiv and surrounding areas.
The change of gears, signaling a brutal occupation, appeared deliberate and coordinated in a nation where detailed Kremlin orders on messaging are handed down regularly to state media.
The threat of Nazism is one of the Kremlin’s most brazen themes. Last week, RIA Novosti ran a prominent opinion piece by pundit Timofei Sergeitsev, an outspoken supporter of Putin, that urged the liquidation of the entire Ukrainian elite, the division of the country, destruction of its sovereignty and even the abolition of its name.
“Denazification will inevitably be de-Ukrainization,” Sergeitsev wrote, requiring years of ideological repression and severe censorship in political, cultural and educational fields. Ordinary Ukrainians were complicit and must suffer the “inevitable hardships of a just war” before total submission to Russian power “as a historical lesson and atonement for their guilt.”
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cowards.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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There are no kings inside the gates of eden
There are no kings inside the gates of eden
Who does that with their kids?
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imagine deliberately causing economic sabotage for the american economy for the sake of getting power that you will do nothing with because you have no ideas and you do not know how to legislate. that is where the gop is at right now.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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.
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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
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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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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.
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Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
hey if Dems dressed like that at their rallies, maybe I’d show up.
Not today Sir, Probably not tomorrow.............................................. bayfront arena st. pete '94
you're finally here and I'm a mess................................................... nationwide arena columbus '10
memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
GOP Cult are the new hippie party animals.
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