And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[frankfrank]

Grrrrr..."FAMILY VALUES" my ass!

 

[rareboy]

And let us not forget about Edward Gallagher, the psychopathic war criminal raised up by Trump.

The Navy SEAL that President Trump granted clemency has launched a lifestyle clothing brand that includes T-shirts, drink gear and sweatshirts.

Edward Gallagher, 40, started Salty Frog Gear, which he describes as a “coastal lifestyle brand with an edge.” The brand, launched with Nine Line and Black Rifle Coffee Company, includes items with the print “stay salty” and sweatshirts with pockets that can hold a bottled beverage.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...EUmNEPcyeO2duGTQdNdGqWcl9cPs_8lYvE2j14HOJuD0M

Obscenity upon obscenity.

 

[KaraBulut]

Another Republican Congress member on his way to federal prison...

Prosecutors recommend almost 5 years in prison for former GOP Rep. Chris Collins [Axios]

Federal prosecutors recommended Monday that former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) be sentenced to up to 57 months in prison for pleading guilty to insider trading last year.

Why it matters: Collins was the first congressman to endorse President Trump in 2016 and resigned in September after changing his not-guilty plea. Prosecutors argue that he should not receive leniency because he continued to serve in Congress while hiding his crimes.

Context: In August 2018, Collins was arrested in connection with an alleged insider trading scheme involving Innate Immunotherapeutics, an Australian drug company whose board he sat on for years.

 

[rareboy]

And also in this week's Deplorable Basket....

Three more members of the radical, violent white supremacist organization 'The Base' have been arrested in addition to two others last week for threatening to storm the Virginia state house on Martin Luther King's birthday this coming Monday during a pro-gun rights rally.

According to arrest affidavits, The Base is a racially motivated violent extremist group that sought to "accelerate the downfall of the United States government, incite a race war and establish a white ethno-state."

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-c...8931I06jKP6SimxR6MU7MWXVsTuL95eP2TrGEozYF_hUg

 

[rareboy]

And then there's this piece of shit.

Wetteland, 52, is accused of continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14, according to Denton County jail records. The Trophy Club resident posted $25,000 bond and was released from custody the same day as his arrest.

He had forced a young relative to perform a sex act on him, according to the arrest warrant affidavit, beginning in 2004 when the child was just four years old.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progr...b2Pln5utVqDOINJpiAiYoOfIm5SUVyQLGDLhKV0e3qjh4

 

[KaraBulut]

Another "family values" candidate caught looking for love on the internet...

Ohio Republican Party calls on House candidate to drop out of race over Ashley Madison account [Cincinnati.com]

The Ohio Republican Party is asking House candidate Joe Dills to withdraw from the three-way Clermont County primary after Dills admitted to signing up for an Ashley Madison account in 2013...

Dills disclosed Friday that he signed up for an account with the online dating and social networking service marketed to people who are married or in relationships to "connect with women for inappropriate relationships."...

Hours after the post, The Enquirer learned of a January 2016 incident in which his wife, Nikea Dills, showed up at his workplace and accused him of cheating. Miami Township police responded to the scene. They advised Nikea to speak with her pastor and Joe to seek a trusted mediator. Joe Dills denied the cheating allegation, according to the police incident report...

The move comes after Dills touted an endorsement from Ohio Value Voters, an organization that supports "faith, life, marriage, family and religious freedom." He posted about the endorsement on his Facebook page Jan. 17, but it has since been removed.

 

[rareboy]

The embezzlement ring in Mississippi...including the Director of Welfare and 5 others who diverted funds to themselves.

https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/8033..._WLmQoPoPOmwFAT_RXNkcH1wEZEJxhBBmG7oSuw1KC8k4

 

[KaraBulut]

The embezzlement ring in Mississippi...including the Director of Welfare and 5 others who diverted funds to themselves.

Ah, Mississippi. The State that allows other Southern States on the bottom of every list to say, "Well, if you think we're bad, take a look at Mississippi!".

This story also came out this week:

DOJ To Investigate Mississippi Prisons After Spate Of Inmate Deaths [NPR]

Since December's riot, a total of 15 inmates have died. Officials say two of the deaths were apparent suicides by hanging, but that many of the others are thought to be gang-related killings. The Mississippi Department of Corrections says 29 staff members have also been assaulted over the same period.

You know it's bad when Barr's DOJ is investigating a Republican State and its prison system that is contracted out to big Republican donors.

 

[KaraBulut]

Update on the update: he'll resign "after the holidays".

Oh, and he spent $625 out of his campaign funds to fly his bunny rabbit in coach.

Rep. Duncan Hunter spent $625 on 'flights for a pet rabbit,' report shows [CNN]

Only 11 months for $200,000 embezzled.

Former Rep. Duncan Hunter sentenced to 11 months in prison for misusing campaign funds [CNN]

Former Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter was sentenced Tuesday to 11 months in prison and three years of parole for corruption charges stemming from his misuse of more than $200,000 in campaign funds for a slew of personal expenses.

Hunter pleaded guilty in December to one count of conspiracy to misuse campaign funds. He sat expressionless as the sentence was handed down and said during the hearing that he takes "full responsibility for any dime that was spent by me or anyone else on my campaign."

Hunter will be on supervised release for three years and must participate in a drug and alcohol treatment program, and he will be housed somewhere in the western region of the United States.

 

[rareboy]

Justice so white.

 

[TX-Beau]

And male.

 

[frankfrank]

Only 11 months for $200,000 embezzled.

That's a LOT of time! Most of the alligators in the swamp don't get any incarceration at all.

 

[rareboy]

This piece of shit.

For voting against the Coronavirus Act because it 'redefined' family in a way that would include homos.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/03...ed-coronavirus-testing-bill-redefined-family/

 

[Thad1527]

^And unmarried folks who happen to care for children not their own. How cruel.

 

[KaraBulut]

Quote from Trump in today's press conference: "It would have been much better if we had known about this a number of months earlier."

Senate Intel chair unloaded stocks in mid-February before coronavirus rocked markets [OpenSecrets]

As the coronavirus outbreak began to spread across the U.S. in mid-February, Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) unloaded his holdings in dozens of stocks that would lose much of their market value over the coming weeks.

Burr and his wife Brooke sold between $581,000 and $1.5 million in publicly traded stocks on Feb. 13 and didn’t buy any new positions, according to a recent financial disclosure filed with the Senate.

Around the time that Burr sold his shares of major corporations, including several hard hit hotel companies, he publicly expressed confidence about the U.S. government’s ability to fight the virus. However in late February, Burr privately warned that the virus is “much more aggressive in its transmission than anything that we have seen in recent history,” according to a recording obtained by NPR.

Between the Burrs’ two accounts, they sold up to $150,000 worth of stock in Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, which lost almost two-thirds of its market value since Feb. 13. They sold up to $150,000 in Extended Stay America, another hotel company that lost half its value over the last month. Burr also sold between $15,001 and $50,000 of stock in Park Hotels & Resorts, which saw its stock price drop from nearly $24 to under $5. The hotel industry is asking President Donald Trump for a bailout as Americans increasingly avoid travel.

To his credit, Sen Burr was telling his constituents that the coronavirus was extremely contagious and was likely to reek havoc on the economy. He told Fox News that the US was well-prepared. Burr, however, sat silent while Trump was telling Americans that this was just 15 cases and would be down to zero and gone by April.

And of course, there was that vote on impeachment...

 

[KaraBulut]

Never mind that Senators who have MILLIONS in stocks seems to be a recurring theme?

Sen. Kelly Loeffler Dumped Millions in Stock After Coronavirus Briefing [Daily Beast]

The Senate’s newest member sold off seven figures worth of stock holdings in the days and weeks after a private, all-senators meeting on the novel coronavirus that subsequently hammered U.S. equities.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA) reported the first sale of stock jointly owned by her and her husband on Jan. 24, the very day that her committee, the Senate Health Committee, hosted a private, all-senators briefing from administration officials, including the CDC director and Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institutes of Health of the United States, on the coronavirus.

“Appreciate today’s briefing from the President’s top health officials on the novel coronavirus outbreak,” she tweeted about the briefing at the time.

 

[Sausy]

Fucker Carlson, who to his credit ripped Trump's response so far to the COVID-19 virus... is now 2 for 2 in suddenly sensible( broken clocks are right twice a day, so..) positions. He's calling for Senator Burr to resign for his indefensible insider stock trading. Maybe he can come for Sen. Loeffler next? Or would that be too much?

 

[KaraBulut]

Fucker Carlson, who to his credit ripped Trump's response so far to the COVID-19 virus... is now 2 for 2 in suddenly sensible( broken clocks are right twice a day, so..) positions. He's calling for Senator Burr to resign for his indefensible insider stock trading. Maybe he can come for Sen. Loeffler next? Or would that be too much?

Sen Burr has said he won't run for re-election in 2022. Expect that Carlson will get shut down on this because NC has a Democratic governor who would fill the seat.

Sen Loeffler was Trump's pick for the seat vacated by Sen Isakson and the Republican governor appointed her in 2019. Loeffler's husband, Jeff Sprecher, who is 25 years her senior, is the Chairman of the NYSE. Too swampy to resign.

 

[Sausy]

Sen Burr has said he won't run for re-election in 2022. Expect that Carlson will get shut down on this because NC has a Democratic governor who would fill the seat.

Sen Loeffler was Trump's pick for the seat vacated by Sen Isakson and the Republican governor appointed her in 2019. Loeffler's husband, Jeff Sprecher, who is 25 years her senior, is the Chairman of the NYSE. Too swampy to resign.

When all this is over, the pitchforks better come out against anyone in either party who puts their interests over that of the American people.

 

[TX-Beau]

When all this is over, the pitchforks better come out against anyone in either party who puts their interests over that of the American people.

That's going to be a long, long list.