And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[TX-Beau]

Exactly.

Fox (and by implication the RNC) is worried that Pete may be another Obama- smart, well-spoken, strategic and with a ground-swell of liberals voting for him for President. And unlike Bill Clinton, so far Pete doesn't seem to have what Betsey Wright and George Stephanopoulos referred to as "bimbo eruptions" to deal with... so Fox is going to have to create something to sully his reputation.

I'm going to show my roots and say that if Pete was drowning in hot young things, I'd just think GO PETE!

 

[cabinfever]

If Pete wasn't married to a man, he'd be President NOW.

What's stopping him isn't the Right. It's the reluctance to vote gay in some core Democratic constituencies, that for once isn't us White guys. Frankly, he's the perfect fucking candidate to steal voters from the right. He looks just like them, he sounds like them, he's sane and safe, and he's not a crusader. He is a crusader actually, but it's a very WASPy Mid-Western kind of Crusade.

^^^THIS^^^

 

[cabinfever]

If Pete wasn't married to a man, he'd be President NOW.

What's stopping him isn't the Right. It's the reluctance to vote gay in some core Democratic constituencies, that for once isn't us White guys. Frankly, he's the perfect fucking candidate to steal voters from the right. He looks just like them, he sounds like them, he's sane and safe, and he's not a crusader. He is a crusader actually, but it's a very WASPy Mid-Western kind of Crusade.

The commonality with factions of of both parties is with Republicans who won't vote for candidates that espouse the religious right wing ideals and Democrats who embrace the religious right wing "moral values".

There ae enough of each to win or lose an election.

 

[smokeshadow]

what the

MSN

 

[TX-Beau]

what the

MSN

Don't give oxygen to performance politics. No judge in Texas is going to end the Federal government, and no part of the South is going to get a "divorce." They want us all to be freaking out about the silly bullshit, while they make the truly important violations safely in the dark.

 

[KaraBulut]

Don't give oxygen to performance politics. No judge in Texas is going to end the Federal government, and no part of the South is going to get a "divorce." They want us all to be freaking out about the silly bullshit, while they make the truly important violations safely in the dark.

I wish I were as optimistic about judges in the South.

Speaking of Paxton... since Texas voters won't do anything about him, perhaps the Public Integrity (an oxymoron, perhaps) Unit will.

D.C.-based DOJ investigators take over corruption probe into Attorney General Ken Paxton - The Texas Tribune

Paxton’s lawyer had argued that federal prosecutors based out of San Antonio had an “obvious conflict” in the investigation.

www.texastribune.org

The Washington-based investigators will now look into allegations made by Paxton’s former top deputies that the attorney general took bribes to benefit a political donor who also employed a woman with whom Paxton was alleged to have had an extramarital affair. The latest news was made public less than one week after Paxton agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to settle a whistleblower lawsuit with four of the employees who accused him of crimes. The settlement still needs court and legislative approval.

 

[TX-Beau]

Don't give oxygen to performance politics. No judge in Texas is going to end the Federal government, and no part of the South is going to get a "divorce." They want us all to be freaking out about the silly bullshit, while they make the truly important violations safely in the dark.

Oh, I'm not optimistic, but whatever crazy they attempt, it will go nowhere. It's a distraction. Even the ban on abortion drug will end in failure. They attempt to use this shit to distract the voters from the actual harm they are attempting.

We have to stop buying it.

 

[TX-Beau]

As far as Paxton is concerned, he knows where all the rest of them buried the bodies. He's a symptom of the way the vote in Texas is at the behest of the horde. In the end, that is the fault of the SC. The Fed will do nothing to stop it. Don't expect them to change anything in Washington.

 

[rareboy]

Oh, I'm not optimistic, but whatever crazy they attempt, it will go nowhere. It's a distraction. Even the ban on abortion drug will end in failure. They attempt to use this shit to distract the voters from the actual harm they are attempting.

We have to stop buying it.

Exactly.

Although, as we saw under Trump and with the SC, this kind of cynical performance politics sometimes scores a lucky hit for the far right.

And all these con artists and grifters know that the more outrageous things they say or do, the more far right fringe voters they bring to the party. January 6th was more than an insurrection, it was a recruitment drive...and still is.

And as long as there are still a slew of Trump judges out there making the decisions, eventually some of the most outrageous cases will get to the SC because they will be used to strengthen the position of the oligarchs who own the GQP and to undo fundamental decisions that expanded rights and liberty.

 

[rareboy]

More prison poetry from the alpha male Andrew Tate....

 

[KaraBulut]

More problems for Kevin....

The far-right Republicans elected to the House in 2022, who put McCarthy into the Speakership, are proving to be problematic liars.

George Santos isn't the only one who lied about his college degree. Rep Andy Ogles [R-TN} claimed to be an economist with a degree in International Relations. Turns out that he has a general Liberal Arts degree and he only took one Economics class, which he made a "C" in. It took him 17 years to complete his undergraduate degree.

REVEALED: Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! We got it anyway

What was in Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles' college transcript that he didn't want you to see? NewsChannel 5 Investigates now has the answer.

www.newschannel5.com

Among the findings: the freshman Republican is a self-proclaimed economist who, it turns out, only took one community college Economics course, which he barely passed. And it reveals that he still hasn't been telling the truth about his college degree.

"What it shows is the level of deception that he is willing to participate in in order to get elected to the United States Congress — and that's disturbing," said Randy Stamps, former political director for the Tennessee Republican Party and a former GOP legislator.

NewsChannel 5's investigation of Andy Ogles' embellishments about his resume recently went national, including his repeated claims as a candidate and as a new member of Congress to be a trained economist.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (née Mayerhofer) [R-FL] appears to have told many lies during her campaign for Congress,

Luna made false claims about her ancestry, including claiming to be of Jewish descent. Turns out that her German ancestor was a gentile member of the Nazi party. Ooops.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

Luna also stated on the campaign trail and in an interview with Jewish Insider in November that while she identifies as Christian, she was “raised as a Messianic Jew by her father.” ...However, three members of Luna’s extended family said that her father was Catholic, and that they were not aware of him practicing any form of Judaism while Luna was growing up.

George Mayerhofer’s father, Heinrich Mayerhofer, immigrated to Canada from Germany in 1954 and identified as Roman Catholic, according to an immigration record reviewed by The Post. According to several family members, Heinrich Mayerhofer, who died in 2003, served in the armed forces of Nazi Germany when he was a teenager in the 1940s.

 

[KaraBulut]

Insurrection co-conspirator Rep Scott Perry [R-PA] just got a slapdown by the Federal Courts. Not a good sign for Pence-bot's attempts to claim Speech and Debate Clause exemption to testify before the Grand Jury.

In some bar in DC, Miss Lindsey is clutching her pearls and asking the bartender for another Southern Comfort with a sprig of mint.

Speech or Debate Immunity Will Not Protect Scott Perry's Phone

On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) is protected by the Speech or Debate Clause from the Jan. 6 criminal investigation....

www.justsecurity.org

“The scope of [any] privilege is limited by its underlying purpose.” Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. 53, 60 (1957). The “central importance” of the immunity created by the Speech or Debate Clause is to “prevent intrusion by [the] Executive and Judiciary into the legislative sphere.” Helstoski, 442 U.S. 477, 491. The privilege was “designed to preserve legislative independence, not supremacy.” Brewster, 408 U.S. at 508, and, as such, the Clause’s protections do not apply to “everything a Member of Congress may regularly do.” Doe v. McMillan, 412 U.S. 306, 311, 313 (1973).

Importantly, the Clause does not provide members of Congress with carte blanche to carry out any action in the name of official duty and escape complete scrutiny and accountability. As the Supreme Court has repeatedly stressed, the purpose of the Clause was not “to make Members of Congress super-citizens, immune from criminal responsibility,” Brewster, 408 U.S. at 516. nor to offer privileges to those that “violate an otherwise valid criminal law in preparing for or implementing legislative acts.” Id. at 626. Essentially, as noted in a Congressional Research Service report on the Clause, it “does not immunize criminal conduct that is clearly no part of the ‘due functioning’ of the legislative process.” For example, the Clause has accordingly been expressly held not to protect Senators or Representatives against bribery charges. Johnson v. United States, 383 U.S. 169 (1964).

The privilege extends only to those acts that are an “integral part of the deliberative and communicative processes” through which members of Congress engage either in “the consideration and passage or rejection of proposed legislation” or “other matters which the Constitution places within the jurisdiction of either House.” Gravel, 408 U.S. at 625.

 

[cabinfever]

Insurrection co-conspirator Rep Scott Perry [R-PA] just got a slapdown by the Federal Courts. Not a good sign for Pence-bot's attempts to claim Speech and Debate Clause exemption to testify before the Grand Jury.

In some bar in DC, Miss Lindsey is clutching her pearls and asking the bartender for another Southern Comfort with a sprig of mint.

Speech or Debate Immunity Will Not Protect Scott Perry's Phone

On Thursday, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals held a hearing on whether Rep. Scott Perry (R-Penn.) is protected by the Speech or Debate Clause from the Jan. 6 criminal investigation....

www.justsecurity.org

No doubt. Maybe even a tequila chaser for good measure

I suspect she is one of those messy drunks.

 

[TX-Beau]

AAAAAAAAAANNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDD..............


We begin the tossing of asswipes under the bus.

...According to a copy of the filing obtained by Mediaite, Murdoch admitted in a deposition last month that false election claims were promoted by top hosts at the cable news network. “They endorsed,” Murdoch said. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.” Also revealed? Murdoch helped the Trump campaign by providing Biden television ads to Jared Kushner before they were run on Fox News...

MSN

 

[KaraBulut]

Bill Lee is the governor of Tennessee. He's made it a priority to sign a bill that would prevent "male or female impersonators" from public properties. It's a way to ban drag storytimes from public libraries.

Because there's nothing more important that needs to be done in a state like Tennessee.

Gov. Bill Lee will sign drag bill, reacts to yearbook photo showing him dressed as a woman

The legislation bans “adult-oriented entertainment” that is “harmful to minors” from public property and places where they might be seen by children.

www.tennessean.com

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said Monday he intends to sign an anti-drag show bill into law when it reaches his desk, the first time he has publicly taken a position on the legislation.

The legislation bans “adult-oriented entertainment” that is “harmful to minors” from public property and places where they might be seen by children. The law specifically mentions “go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers” and “male or female impersonators” — the latter of which includes drag performers. Under the bill, a first offense would be charged as a misdemeanor and the second a felony.

Of course, since the yearbooks of Southern governors are a treasure trove of bad choices, pictures of Gov Bill Lee in drag have surfaced. It's not pretty.

Perhaps the bill should be re-written to ban female impersonation by homely future governors. Children should be protected from seeing that.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

Scott Adams. Who is whining after his racism has caught up with him after all these years.

 

[cabinfever]

Bill Lee is the governor of Tennessee. He's made it a priority to sign a bill that would prevent "male or female impersonators" from public properties. It's a way to ban drag storytimes from public libraries.

Because there's nothing more important that needs to be done in a state like Tennessee.

 

[TX-Beau]

FIRST UNDER THE WHEELS!

..."This time, Murdoch did quibble — but only with the idea that Fox as an entity endorsed such claims. He granted that certain hosts did. Maria Bartiromo? 'Yes. C’mon,” Jeanine Pirro? 'I think so.' Lou Dobbs? 'Oh, a lot.' Sean Hannity? 'A bit.'" Murdoch then conceded, "Some of our commentators were endorsing it. Yes. They endorsed...”

MSN

I wonder if she's going to scream affectedly as she's crushed by the peasant's transportation.

Alas, I was hoping Fucker would be the first tossed into the gaping maw of Hypocrata, Goddess of Horde.

 

[frankfrank]

AAAAAAAAAANNNNNDDDDDDDDDDDDD..............


We begin the tossing of asswipes under the bus.

MSN

..........................................“They endorsed,” Murdoch said. “I would have liked us to be stronger in denouncing it in hindsight.”

But, OK...he's still in charge, right? PROVE to us that you have some regrets. You can still stop this. NOW. (Oh, but it's all about revenues, of course.)