And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[TX-Beau]

Jason Aldean, the guy from a City, pretending he is from a small town, promoting vigilantism, lynching and stoking more white rage in his trash song...and becoming the new darling of the far right.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/20/opinions/opinion-jason-aldean-video-cmt-vigilantism-hemmer/index.html

That is about money. I have no idea if he's a Trog, but he certainly (or someone promoting him) understands them.

 

[joesman]

He has defended the song. Not too long ago his wife made disparaging remarks about trans people. They deserve each other and he is a white southern white supremist.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

There are suckers born every minute.

Members of a Florida family who for years touted an industrial bleach mixture as a miracle cure for a variety of health conditions, including COVID-19, were found guilty of federal crimes Wednesday in Miami.
Mark Grenon, 65, and sons Jonathan, 37, Joseph, 35, and Jordan, 29, were convicted of conspiring to defraud the United States and deliver misbranded drugs after their church, the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing, sold $1 million worth of their so-called Miracle Mineral Solution, or MMS, according to court records.

MSN

 

[TX-Beau]

...“If we don’t take back the Senate, Dems will pack the courts, give DC statehood, grant abortions up to 52 weeks, and Republicans will never win again,” he wrote to supporters Monday...

GOP Sen. Tim Scott Claims Democrats Want Abortions Up To 52 Weeks

Human pregnancies last for about 40 weeks.

sports.yahoo.com

If we can't beat these people, it will be our own fault.

 

[rareboy]

GOP Sen. Tim Scott Claims Democrats Want Abortions Up To 52 Weeks

Human pregnancies last for about 40 weeks.

sports.yahoo.com

If we can't beat these people, it will be our own fault.

It will be....but the owners of these senators don't want smart, they want subservience.

And Americans have proven too many times that they can make the worst decision possible, because the states that send the stupidest senators also seem to have the stupidest voters.

 

[KaraBulut]

GOP Sen. Tim Scott Claims Democrats Want Abortions Up To 52 Weeks

Human pregnancies last for about 40 weeks.

sports.yahoo.com

If we can't beat these people, it will be our own fault.

40 weeks from the last menstrual period.

This is why they don't want accurate and realistic sex education in public schools.

This is also why I keep saying, "Leave medical decisions to people who are in the profession. Leave decisions about vaginas to the person whose vagina it is. And leave no decision to any politician from the State of South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi or Florida."

 

[rareboy]

And of course, there's always Andrew Tate. To tell us how we've failed as traffickers and rapists.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[LoveMyPeppermill]

Well, I just read through the Wikipedia entries for Andrew Tate (ew) and his father.

So Andrew Tate's father, Emory Tate, was a chess grandmaster and a pioneer for African-Americans in the game. His father was frequently away at tournaments (evidently part of the friction in his marriage), and Andrew has said that his father took him out of school and on tour for one year. Andrew's parents divorced when he was 10, and his mother took him and his brother to her home in England. So, while he may have seen his father again (I don't know), it seems they never lived together again. Emory Tate died in 2015, and it was the following year that Andrew got on and then was thrown off Big Brother for hitting a woman with a belt, and, evidently, ended his international MMA career with a loss. (It appears from his Wikipedia page that he has since fought only in Romania.)

So yeah, it would make sense that Andrew Tate would have daddy issues.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

About Governor Roller Nazi of Texas.
If the President wanted to, couldn't he just order the military to remove the razor buoys being that this is on our national border?

 

[johaninsc]

 

[KaraBulut]

Offered without comment:

 

[KaraBulut]

The whole story is deplorable:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/24/us/pennsylvania-pastor-cold-case-murder-gretchen-harrington/index.html

An 83-year-old former pastor has been charged with the kidnapping and murder of a neighboring pastor’s daughter in 1975, Pennsylvania officials announced Monday.

The suspect, David Zandstra, was arrested on July 17 in Cobb County, Georgia, where investigators say he confessed to killing 8-year-old Gretchen Harrington nearly five decades ago when he was a pastor in Marple Township, Pennsylvania, according to the Delaware County District Attorney’s office in Pennsylvania...

It wasn’t until this January that Pennsylvania State Police learned new evidence from the confidential informant, who had been best friends with one of Zandstra’s daughters in the 1970s and attended sleepovers at his home, the district attorney’s office said.

The woman showed police a diary she kept in 1975 in which she wrote that the then-pastor “touched her groin area” on two occasions while she was attending a sleepover at his home, the complaint said. The informant told investigators when she told Zandstra’s daughter what happened, the daughter replied that her father “did that sometimes,” the release said.

Rev Zandstra is not a drag queen.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[rareboy]

There definitely is something darker happening here.

 

[KaraBulut]

Fair Justice, Texas Style.

Pro-Paxton group gives $3 million to impeachment trial judge Dan Patrick

Defend Texas Liberty was the lieutenant governor’s largest benefactor in late June, providing a $1 million donation and $2 million loan to his campaign.

www.texastribune.org

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who is presiding over the impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton, received $3 million in campaign support last month from a top group campaigning against Paxton’s impeachment.

In a campaign-finance report published Tuesday, Patrick — who is not up for reelection until 2026 — reported a $1 million contribution and a $2 million loan from Defend Texas Liberty PAC. The political action committee was by far his biggest benefactor on the report, which covered Patrick’s fundraising from June 19-30. It was the first opportunity state officials had to fundraise since the House impeached Paxton in late May.

Follow the money:

6 large donors fuel Ken Paxton’s post-impeachment campaign fundraising

The suspended attorney general’s campaign disclosure did not shed light on how he is paying for his impeachment legal defense.

www.texastribune.org

Suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton attracted six six-figure donors in his first fundraising report since the House impeached him in May. But the report provides little clarity on how he is paying for his legal defense — or who is paying for it...

His report shows that $1.2 million of the $1.7 million came from six supporters who gave at least $100,000 each. The top donor, at $500,000, was Gary Heavin, the founder of the fitness chain Curves International. Heavin is from the Waco suburb of Woodway.

Paxton’s second-largest donor was Doug Scharbauer, who contributed $250,000. Scharbauer is a Midland oil mogul who is a regular major donor to Texas Republicans.

Paxton’s other six-figure donors included two other Midland oilmen, Tim Dunn ($150,000) and Kyle Stallings ($100,000), as well as Dallas hotelier Monty Bennett ($100,000). A sixth donor, Midland’s William Holmes, wrote Paxton three smaller checks that added up to $100,000. All are common GOP megadonors, and Dunn is especially supportive of the far right in Texas.

Tim Dunn and Kyle Stallings are described as a "Midland oilmen". They are more than that- they are evangelical ministers who made millions in the oil industry and the have poured millions into Dominionist and White Christian Nationalist causes. Imagine the Koch Brothers with the believe that Jesus is on their side.

Note the "only Christians should be in leadership positions" in government quote in the article...

The Power Issue: Tim Dunn Is Pushing the Republican Party Into the Arms of God

The socially conservative Midland oil man has been putting a lot of money into the fight for the GOP’s soul.

www.texasmonthly.com

In November 2010, as he was readying for his second term as Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus invited Midland oilman Tim Dunn to breakfast. It was an attempt, after a bruising election season, to extend an olive branch. Dunn had helped bankroll the tea party surge in Texas, and an organization he started, Empower Texans, had attacked Democrats and participated in rallies across the state protesting property taxes and excessive government spending. Straus, a San Antonio businessman from a well-off Republican family, had been chosen as Speaker in January 2009 by a coalition that comprised GOP fiscal conservatives like himself and all the chamber’s Democrats.

But in the 2010 election, the Democrats lost 24 seats. Dunn, in other words, had done much to shrink the Speaker’s base of support. Nevertheless, Straus regarded himself as fiscally responsible and thought he and Dunn might find common ground on that subject.

With plates of eggs before them, Dunn and Straus sat at a table in the Speaker’s Conference Room, surrounded by dark pecan paneling, Audubon prints, and photographs of Straus family members posing with George H. W. Bush (a friend of Straus’s mother) and U.S. senator John Tower. Dunn never lifted his fork. He didn’t seem interested in hearing what the Speaker had to say. But he did have an agenda. He demanded that Straus remove a significant number of committee chairs and replace them with tea party activists supported by Empower Texans. Straus refused. Then the conversation moved on to evangelical social policy, and, according to Straus insiders, Dunn astonished Straus, who is Jewish, by saying that only Christians should be in leadership positions.

 

[johaninsc]

Surely this can't be real...