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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    So MAGA fans here, I'm curious what your take is on Katie Britts rebuttal to Biden's speech.   It's easy for me to draw the conclusion that since the Republican party chose here to represent them, they must be OK with the outdated idea of keeping women "barefoot and in the kitchen".  Here's another description of what Britt is all about.  I'm really curious what those of you who support MAGA think of all this (more at link):
    https://jesspiper.substack.com/p/the-fundie-baby-voice?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=email

    The Fundie Baby Voice

    As soon as Senator Katie Britt started speaking, I knew exactly who she is. She is so many of the pastor's wives and Sunday School teachers I knew growing up in an Evangelical church. Be sweet. Obey.

    I was about to head to bed after the State of the Union last night, when I heard a voice coming from my television that stopped me in my tracks. I didn’t know who was speaking, but it really didn’t matter—I recognized the voice. It was so many voices from my childhood. It was so many Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings. It was potlucks, and baby showers, and graduations, and birthday parties.

    It was Senator Katie Britt using her well-practiced fundie baby voice.

    I threw so many folks for a loop last year when I discussed the voice in a video. I used my “training” as a former Evangelical, a Southern Baptist, to describe the breathy cadence and the soft, child-like high pitch. Folks outside of Fundamentalist culture had never heard the term—they just knew the voice made them uncomfortable.

    I know that voice well…in fact I can’t shake it myself. It was engrained in every woman I knew from church and every time I speak about it, folks will point out that I sound that way myself. Yes, friends. That’s the point.

    Be sweet. Obey. Prove it by speaking in muted tones.





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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,166
    I'm seeing chatter that the cartel rape situation Britt describe probably happened several years ago.

    Also..it would be interesting to ask Britt's opinion as to what that rape victims options would be if she became pregnant from this cartel rape. The GOP/Britt would force her to have that baby.

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  • Merkin Baller
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    I'm seeing chatter that the cartel rape situation Britt describe probably happened several years ago.

    Also..it would be interesting to ask Britt's opinion as to what that rape victims options would be if she became pregnant from this cartel rape. The GOP/Britt would force her to have that baby.

    muriKKKa!!
    Here’s one look at it. I haven’t seen this info confirmed anywhere else. (Haven’t searched for it either though)

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    I'm seeing chatter that the cartel rape situation Britt describe probably happened several years ago.

    Also..it would be interesting to ask Britt's opinion as to what that rape victims options would be if she became pregnant from this cartel rape. The GOP/Britt would force her to have that baby.

    muriKKKa!!
    Here’s one look at it. I haven’t seen this info confirmed anywhere else. (Haven’t searched for it either though)


    Thanks for putting that up!  Yeah, unbelievable.  Flat out lying.
    Well, maybe it is believable.  And totally pathetic.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,052
    I'm seeing chatter that the cartel rape situation Britt describe probably happened several years ago.

    Also..it would be interesting to ask Britt's opinion as to what that rape victims options would be if she became pregnant from this cartel rape. The GOP/Britt would force her to have that baby.

    muriKKKa!!
    Maybe she can expose Comet Pizza for what it really is?
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  • mickeyrat
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    edited March 2024
    should be noted that insulin costs arent 35 for every diabetic. yet.


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  • brianlux
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    Not going to win by lying, GOP.  Idiots!
    Story at link, and it sounds well researched.

    Journalist says Katie Britt’s story about child sex abuse ‘out-and-out lie’

    Jonathan Katz accuses Britt of being ‘dishonest’ in State of the Union rebuttal with story about Karla Jacinto Romero




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  • mickeyrat
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    Guess we'll soon find out. When do you think the first lawsuit gets filed preventing it?


     

    Lara Trump says she thinks GOP voters would like to see RNC pay Donald Trump's legal fees

    By MICHELLE L. PRICE
    5 - 6 minutes

    Updated 8:07 PM EDT, February 21, 2024

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    NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and handpicked choice to help lead the Republican National Committee said she thinks Republican voters would support having the political organization pay the former president’s ballooning legal fees.

    Lara Trump said Wednesday while campaigning for her father-in-law ahead of the South Carolina primary that she was not familiar with the RNC’s rules about paying Donald Trump’s legal fees in a multitude of criminal and civil cases.

    But she said she thought the idea would get broad support among GOP voters who see his legal cases as political persecution.

    “That’s why people are furious right now. And they see the attacks against him. They feel like it’s an attack not just on Donald Trump but on this country,” she said. “So yeah I think that is a big interest to people, absolutely.”

    In addition to the millions he is spending on lawyers, Trump’s legal debts now top half a billion dollars.

    Trump, though the front-runner in the GOP presidential primary, has not yet become the Republican nominee. That did not stop him last week from publicly calling to remove the RNC’s current leaders and suggest Lara Trump should serve as co-chair. He proposed Michael Whatley, the current chair of the North Carolina GOP, to serve as chair.

    She told reporters on Wednesday that GOP voters will feel more trust in the RNC by having a Trump family member installed in leadership.

    “Having someone like me in there I think will go a long way for people. I can assure you that my loyalty is to my father-in-law and I will make sure that every penny is used properly,” she said. “It should be going to fight for Nov. 5 for the causes that we care about.”

    Those causes were electing Trump president in November, growing the Republican majority in the House with “patriots, America first candidates” and winning back control of the Senate, she said.

    Current Chair Ronna McDaniel has privately agreed no changes would take place until after South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, and the RNC is not expected to formalize changes until it meets later in the spring.

    Though McDaniel herself was once handpicked by Donald Trump to lead the party’s political machine, the former president had grown frustrated with her as some of his allies complained about the party’s losses in recent elections, the party’s finances and a perception that the party did not do enough to focus on voter fraud, which Trump has blamed for his 2020 election loss. That’s despite his own Justice Department saying there was no evidence of widespread fraud and Trump’s team losing more than 50 lawsuits over the election.

    Lara Trump, speaking to Trump supporters and volunteers on Wednesday, said she intended to have the RNC “fight fire with dynamite” when it came to ensuring the party was doing everything it could to win Trump the election, including early voting and so-called ballot harvesting, which the party has already started pushing.

    The proposed leadership change also raises questions about how an emboldened Trump would work his will on the party. Trump already gets involved in down-ballot Republican primary races for the House, Senate and other offices and has endorsed the opponents of Republicans he has seen as disloyal.

    Lara Trump said if she is made co-chair of the RNC, her loyalty would be to her father-in-law, but she believed the organization would stick to its policy of staying neutral in primary contests, saying, “I don’t know why we would change course on that now.”

    But she drew a different line with the presidential primary, where former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is still running against Trump.

    “The RNC will be supporting the whoever the Republican nominee for president is,” Lara Trump said. “I think we all know that’s going to be Donald Trump.”


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  • mickeyrat
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  • mickeyrat
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  • gimmesometruth27
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    mickeyrat said:
    Guess we'll soon find out. When do you think the first lawsuit gets filed preventing it?


     

    Lara Trump says she thinks GOP voters would like to see RNC pay Donald Trump's legal fees

    By MICHELLE L. PRICE
    5 - 6 minutes

    Updated 8:07 PM EDT, February 21, 2024

    Get insider access to the campaign trail, Washington and more with Ground Game, featuring exclusive reporting on politics and the 2024 race from the AP’s Meg Kinnard. Sign up here.

    NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and handpicked choice to help lead the Republican National Committee said she thinks Republican voters would support having the political organization pay the former president’s ballooning legal fees.

    Lara Trump said Wednesday while campaigning for her father-in-law ahead of the South Carolina primary that she was not familiar with the RNC’s rules about paying Donald Trump’s legal fees in a multitude of criminal and civil cases.

    But she said she thought the idea would get broad support among GOP voters who see his legal cases as political persecution.

    “That’s why people are furious right now. And they see the attacks against him. They feel like it’s an attack not just on Donald Trump but on this country,” she said. “So yeah I think that is a big interest to people, absolutely.”

    In addition to the millions he is spending on lawyers, Trump’s legal debts now top half a billion dollars.

    Trump, though the front-runner in the GOP presidential primary, has not yet become the Republican nominee. That did not stop him last week from publicly calling to remove the RNC’s current leaders and suggest Lara Trump should serve as co-chair. He proposed Michael Whatley, the current chair of the North Carolina GOP, to serve as chair.

    She told reporters on Wednesday that GOP voters will feel more trust in the RNC by having a Trump family member installed in leadership.

    “Having someone like me in there I think will go a long way for people. I can assure you that my loyalty is to my father-in-law and I will make sure that every penny is used properly,” she said. “It should be going to fight for Nov. 5 for the causes that we care about.”

    Those causes were electing Trump president in November, growing the Republican majority in the House with “patriots, America first candidates” and winning back control of the Senate, she said.

    Current Chair Ronna McDaniel has privately agreed no changes would take place until after South Carolina’s primary on Saturday, and the RNC is not expected to formalize changes until it meets later in the spring.

    Though McDaniel herself was once handpicked by Donald Trump to lead the party’s political machine, the former president had grown frustrated with her as some of his allies complained about the party’s losses in recent elections, the party’s finances and a perception that the party did not do enough to focus on voter fraud, which Trump has blamed for his 2020 election loss. That’s despite his own Justice Department saying there was no evidence of widespread fraud and Trump’s team losing more than 50 lawsuits over the election.

    Lara Trump, speaking to Trump supporters and volunteers on Wednesday, said she intended to have the RNC “fight fire with dynamite” when it came to ensuring the party was doing everything it could to win Trump the election, including early voting and so-called ballot harvesting, which the party has already started pushing.

    The proposed leadership change also raises questions about how an emboldened Trump would work his will on the party. Trump already gets involved in down-ballot Republican primary races for the House, Senate and other offices and has endorsed the opponents of Republicans he has seen as disloyal.

    Lara Trump said if she is made co-chair of the RNC, her loyalty would be to her father-in-law, but she believed the organization would stick to its policy of staying neutral in primary contests, saying, “I don’t know why we would change course on that now.”

    But she drew a different line with the presidential primary, where former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley is still running against Trump.

    “The RNC will be supporting the whoever the Republican nominee for president is,” Lara Trump said. “I think we all know that’s going to be Donald Trump.”


    they should pay for his legal fees. then they would not have any money left over to compete in statewide elections in battleground states, leaving them open to be turned blue.

    great strategy.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    But have they heard of Hunter’s laptop?
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    mickeyrat said:

    She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! 
    I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist.  That is utterly confounding. 
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  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,352
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:

    She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! 
    I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist.  That is utterly confounding. 

    note he asked about support given she is a reported advocate for victims then she shared about her experience. as freely as she shares, it isnt the first time its shared.


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  • brianlux
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    mickeyrat said:
    brianlux said:
    mickeyrat said:

    She refuses to answer the question- what does that tell you?! 
    I can't understand how it is that so many women worship a man who is an obvious misogynist.  That is utterly confounding. 

    note he asked about support given she is a reported advocate for victims then she shared about her experience. as freely as she shares, it isnt the first time its shared.



    I get the feeling she'll take her "15 minutes of fame" anyway she can get it.  It's kind of weird how she's using her own tragedy  (and who cannot empathize?, for sure) to get attention.  But then, this is the way of MAGA.
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  • mickeyrat
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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    For those who still believe it’s “both sides” or same-same.

    Opinion  Forget ‘polarization.’ It’s the GOP’s radicalization.

    The notion that the United States is “polarized” into two conflicting, equally stubborn and extreme camps infects much of the mainstream news coverage and everyday chatter about politics. Washington is “broken.” “Gridlock” is a problem. “No one goes out to dinner with someone on the other side.” Such mealy-mouthed language masks a stark dichotomy: Democrats have to move to the center to get bipartisan support; Republicans have become radicalized and unmovable.

    This is not “polarization.” It is the authoritarian capture of much of the GOP by a right-wing movement bent on sowing chaos. Turkey, Hungary and other countries with autocratic strongmen are not polarized; democratic forces try their best to prevent their country’s ruin and collapse into total dictatorship. Our political scene, sadly, has come to resemble the global authoritarian assault on democracy.

    Oh, sure, it’s fashionable, as departing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) did, to blame both political parties. “Our democracy was weakened by government dysfunction and the constant pull to the extremes by both political parties. … The only political victories that matter these days are symbolic, attacking your opponents on cable news or social media. ‘Compromise’ is a dirty word. We’ve arrived at that crossroad, and we chose anger and division.” Really?! Who is “we”?

    The bipartisan border compromise — her bipartisan bill — was sunk by RepublicansRepublicans in the House overwhelmingly opposed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, commonly known as the “Bipartisan” Infrastructure Bill (which President Biden modified to get bipartisan support); almost every Republican voted against the Chips Act, they all voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, and some even voted against the Pact Act, which would have helped veterans. House Republicans have launched phony, baseless impeachment hearings. Senate Republicans filibustered reenactment of a key part of the Voting Rights Act, blocked a bipartisan Jan. 6, 2021, commission and overwhelmingly refused to convict four-times-indicted former president Donald Trump. The assertion that hyper-partisanship, chaos and nihilism (e.g., threatening to shut down the government, egging on a default and refusing to even vote on Ukraine aide) is equally divided amounts to an outright fabrication — or utter cluelessness.

    That’s the same tommyrot one hears from No Labels. CNN’s Edward-Isaac Dovere reported that No Labels has resorted to “accusing Biden of having politically toxic positions he does not actually hold.” Well, if you are asking for millions to run a quixotic third-party race, it sounds better to make him out to be just as extreme as Trump; alas, it is just not true. (Even No Labels apparently understands that: “In a private presentation the group has circulated among members and prospective candidates are two claims that No Labels officials say would be damaging to Biden, even as they acknowledge the claims aren’t true: that he is for ‘open borders’ and that he is captive to a ‘far left’ that ‘wants to abandon Israel’ and is ‘sympathetic to Hamas.’”) To cook up an equivalence, you have to misrepresent Biden’s record.

    Biden has actually stood up to the far left in his own party when it lionizes Hamas or demands Medicare-for-all. The left blasts him for being too accommodating, too courteous to Republicans and too hands-off with a listless Justice Department. Biden remains in step with the vast majority of Democrats.

    The party’s center-left orientation was evident throughout the primaries. On Super Tuesday, California voters chose moderate Rep. Adam Schiff (D) over progressive Rep. Katie Porter (D) as one of two candidates to run to fill the Senate seat opened by Dianne Feinstein’s death. In Texas, moderate Rep. Colin Allred won the Senate Democratic primary by a mile and avoided a runoff.

    San Francisco — yes, San Francisco — has gone moderate. “The liberal bastion of San Francisco pivoted rightward in Tuesday’s election as voters responded to ongoing drug, homelessness and crime crises by approving policies that bolster police and require drug-screening for welfare recipients,” Politico reported. “The results represent a major victory for embattled Mayor London Breed, a moderate Democrat who faces a tough fightfor a second full term in November.”

    Meanwhile, Republicans nominated for North Carolina governor not a “fiery outsider,” as the New York Times would have us believe (the headline was subsequently changed), but Mark Robinson, who called transgender and gay people “filth” and said gay people are equivalent to “what the cows leave behind” (also “maggots” and “flies”). He has made a series of shocking an inflammatory comments about women and Jews (even quoting Hitler), remains a staunch election denier and wants to ban all abortions (a view about 90 percent of Americans reject). Hate speech of the type Trump and Robinson utter would be disqualifying in the Democratic Party.

    Robinson will face the state’s no-nonsense Democratic attorney general, Josh Stein, who is very much in the mode of moderate incumbent Democrat Roy Cooper. (Also from North Carolina, “Republican Mark Harris, whose previous election to Congress in 2018 was thrown out after credible allegations of election fraud, won a GOP primary for a newly drawn House seat,” Politico reported.)

    Congress has also fallen under the grip of a right-wing bastion that cannot govern itself. The GOP speaker of the House is a Christian nationalist who thinks he was chosen by God and takes direction from the Bible, not the Constitution. No Democrat compares to the likes of Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) or Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.).

    Worst of all, Republicans are on the verge of nominating someone literally out on bail, who dines with neo-Nazistalks about blood purityand invites Russian President Vladimir Putin to attack NATO. Virtually every elected Republican has fallen in behind him — the most extreme, racist candidate since the Civil War. (Even Sen. Barry Goldwater knew Moscow was the enemy.)

    Responsible reporting should not cover for Republicans. The MAGA Republican Party has become shockingly irrational and radicalized, fully embracing totalitarianism, white nationalism and radical isolationism.

    America is divided not by some free-floating condition of “polarization” but by one party going off the deep end. And that’s a threat to all of us.

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,451
    not only was her speech unhinged, it was also a big fucking lie. big surprise. 

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/katie-britt-sex-trafficking-victim-interview/index.html
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    not only was her speech unhinged, it was also a big fucking lie. big surprise. 

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/katie-britt-sex-trafficking-victim-interview/index.html

    The new MAGA Republican party is clearly showing signs of desperation... and making some pretty damn poor decisions.  Where did they get the idea that using Britt was going to gain them any traction?  Fools!
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