And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

^He is. But I'll take a road to Damascus moment, even if it comes late.

 

[cityboy-stl]

By the way. Joe Walsh is one of the Republicans who helped get the US to this point.

That is true. But Joe Walsh turned on Trump a long time ago and has opened admitted he was wrong. So I give him some credit for that.

 

[rareboy]

Just a reminder:

 

[rareboy]

Howard Lutnik is one of the most punchable faces in Trump's cabinet. A sociopath in need of a Luigi if ever there was one.

He thinks that people who don't get their SS cheques won't really mind.

Billionaire Commerce Secretary Says Seniors Wouldn't Mind Missing Social Security Checks - NewsBreak

Only a "fraudster" would complain if they missed a check, Howard Lutnick proclaimed.

www.newsbreak.com

 

[rareboy]

And of course...they still plan on shutting it down in defiance of Court orders. The judge had to issue a second letter because the Deplorable acting commissioner Dudek has kept threatening to shut it down because DOGE has been denied further access to records.

 

[rareboy]

I don't think we've welcomed this one yet?

 

[rareboy]

Not a drag queen.

 

[KaraBulut]

No end in sight for the increasing number of Republicans caught with dead women or young boys... Another Dennis-Hastert-level fall from grace, Sen Holmberg was a high school guidance counselor and longest serving Republican lawmaker.

Among the things that Holmberg is accused of is coercing a high school boy into sending him nude pictures of himself. The boy later committed suicide. The Federal indictment detailed Holmberg's multiple trips to Prague to have sex with underage prostitutes.

Ex-North Dakota lawmaker gets 10 years for going to Europe with intent to pay for sex with a minor

A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.

apnews.com

A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor.

Former state senator Ray Holmberg’s attorney, Mark Friese, confirmed the sentence to The Associated Press but declined to comment after the hearing, which KFGO radio reported included seven hours of testimony, victim statements and an apology from the shackled 81-year-old.

Holmberg pleaded guilty last year in U.S. District Court in Fargo, North Dakota, to one count of traveling with intent to engage in illicit sexual activity...

Holmberg served 45 years in the North Dakota Senate. He resigned in 2022 after The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reported on his many text messages with a man in jail in connection with child sexual abuse material. Holmberg chaired two powerful legislative panels, including the Senate’s budget-writing committee.

 

[KaraBulut]

A bit of history...

Jerry Falwell Sr got his start in televangelism at a church in Lynchburg, Virginia called Thomas Road Baptist Church. His Sunday morning "send money" sermons were broadcast all over America back in the 1970s and led to the funding of the Moral Majority and Liberty University.

Thomas Road Baptist Church is still around and they have a different kind of awful pastor these days.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[johaninsc]

 

[KaraBulut]

America is a representative democracy... unless you live in a predominantly Black Congressional district whose Representative died in office...

Gov. Greg Abbott showing no rush to replace late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner

Republicans hold a tiny majority in the House, creating an incentive for Abbott to hold off on calling an election for Turner’s seat, which would likely be filled by a Democrat.

www.texastribune.org

Three weeks after U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner’s death and just over a month before the state’s next uniform election, Gov. Greg Abbott has not yet called a special election to fill the seat representing parts of Houston, a Democratic stronghold, in Congress.

Turner, who previously served in the Texas House for nearly three decades before becoming mayor of Houston, died March 5, two months into his first term representing Texas’ 18th Congressional District. His funeral was held in Houston on March 15.

Turner was elected to Congress last year after his predecessor and political ally, former U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, died in office after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Abbott has the sole authority to call a special election to fill Turner's seat for the rest of the two-year term. State law does not specify a deadline for the governor to order a special election. If called, the election must happen within two months of the announcement.

But the Republican governor has little incentive to send another Democrat to Congress.

 

[KaraBulut]

Back when Kevin McCarthy [R-CA] was Speaker of the House, rumors abounded about his "roommate" arrangement with Frank Luntz, a "long-time" bachelor.

Marjorie Taylor Greene hints that Kevin McCarthy is gay on Tucker Carlson's show - LGBTQ Nation

The two joked that McCarthy is in a relationship with pollster Frank Luntz.

www.lgbtqnation.com

Now we learn that the current Speaker and Trump BFF, Mike Johnson [R-LA] lives in the basement of one of several "ministry center" homes in the DC area that are at the center of Dominionist and New Apostolic Reformation movement adherents.

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign

The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

www.propublica.org

 

[rareboy]

From Betty Bowers:

These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp.

As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.

 

[rareboy]

 

[rareboy]

not a drag queen as far as I know.

https://www.fox13memphis.com/news/mississippi-police-officer-charged-with-enticing-minors/article_4a30531b-174a-46fc-98de-5fa71a0f5140.html

 

[KaraBulut]

No surprises here...



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[pigface]

From Betty Bowers:

These men behind bars are not in prison after being charged with crimes. They are "enemy combatants" being detained in a concentration camp.

As such, Kristi Noem's crass photo-op using them as props violates the Geneva Convention's prohibition of ‘exposure to public curiosity’ of those captured.

Being not in the USA, I haven't seen close up photos of this woman, but by first impression now was "there's another plastic surgery gone wrong".

 

[KaraBulut]

Being not in the USA, I haven't seen close up photos of this woman, but by first impression now was "there's another plastic surgery gone wrong".

This woman is the head of the second largest US government agency- the Department of Homeland Security. All of these abuses of immigrants are being done under her watch.

There's a reason that the internet refers to her as "ICE Barbie". She has hired a "comms team" and her job appears to be playing dress up and making "Dear Leader" videos to impress her boss.

While she was the governor of South Dakota, she got into trouble for nepotism. She also did promotional videos for a dentist in Texas who gave her a new set of veneers. She was also banging Corey Lewandowski, one of Trump's campaign operatives, while her husband was presumably back in South Dakota with their 3 kids.

 

[rareboy]

The Wall Street Journal.

For tone deafness.