And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[rareboy]

It is like they annonce this same thing at the end of every week now.

And hilariously, Adam Kinsinger hasn't had a security clearance (by his own admission) for many months now.

 

[KaraBulut]

More news from Florida's deplorables. Republican politicians and pastors, included. No drag queens.

 

[KaraBulut]

Another another Christian church "youth counselor" charged with 19 counts of "incident acts with a child"...

Va. youth counselor sentenced for indecent liberties with children

A youth counselor pleaded guilty to “indecent acts with a child” in Richmond County on Wednesday, according to online court records.

www.12onyourside.com

RICHMOND COUNTY, Va. (WWBT) - A youth counselor pleaded guilty to “indecent acts with a child” in Richmond County on Wednesday, according to online court records.

On Aug. 6 at 8 a.m., officers with the Richmond County Sheriff’s Office arrested 55-year-old David Lawrence Schneider on 2 counts of taking indecent liberties with a child by a person in a supervisor role.

According to officers, Schneider worked as a youth counselor for several agencies, including schools and churches in the Richmond County area.

Schneider is an alumnus of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University:




P.S. Not a drag queen.

 

[KaraBulut]

Today in faux witch hunt news...

The "witches" in other countries are being caught while witches in the US accept $200 campaign donations and then hawk Teslas on the White House lawn from the donor.

Israeli witch, Benjamin Netanyahu's top aides are accused of accepting money from Qatar (#Qatargate:

Netanyahu aides reportedly suspected of recently receiving six-figure sums from Qatar

Investigators said taken aback by size of payouts, allegedly amounting to hundreds of thousands paid via outside firms; Tel Aviv protesters seize on latest '#Qatargate report

www.timesofisrael.com

Investigators are looking into whether hundreds of thousands of dollars were funneled from Qatar to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s aides in recent months, according to a Friday report.

The suspicion, reported by Channel 13, appeared to mark the latest of a series of allegations that figures in the premier’s circle were paid by Doha to improve its image. Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara ordered an investigation into the alleged ties late last month, which is now being carried out by the Shin Bet and police.

Marie Le Pen's "witch hunt" ends in a conviction for having members of the National Rally party double-dipping doing party work while on the EU payroll.

France's Le Pen convicted of graft, gets five year election ban

Marine Le Pen leads the National Rally party, the biggest in the French Parliament.

www.usatoday.com

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.

The ruling marks a catastrophic setback for Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) party chief and a front-runner in opinion polls on the 2027 contest.

Le Pen, the RN and two dozen party figures were accused of diverting more than 4 million Euros ($4.33 million) of European Parliament funds to pay France-based staff. They had argued the money was used legitimately and that the allegations had defined too narrowly what a parliamentary assistant does.

Putin's buddy Gerard Depardieu got caught with his hands in the wrong places (after years of accusations):

Gerard Depardieu trial: French actor stands at center of country's #MeToo movement

French actor Gerard Depardieu is facing trial over several assaults alleged to have taken place during the filming of a 2021 movie.

www.usatoday.com

French actor Gerard Depardieu arrived in court Monday for the start of a trial over several sexual assaults alleged to have taken place on a film set in 2021.

The case, which chronicles just one of a string of accusations made against the celebrated actor, places Depardieu at the heart of France's broader reckoning over sexual violence.

A towering figure of French cinema, Depardieu, 76, has faced a growing number of sexual assault allegations in recent years. The claims, which come from over 10 women who have worked with the actor in various capacities in the past, date back to the early 2000s and allege a pattern of abuse and misbehavior.

 

[KaraBulut]

While the US has gutted the international aid agency, USAID, which handles emergency assistance to other countries, Russia and China are tripping over themselves to send aid to Myanmar and Thailand after the earthquakes last week. An estimated 100,000 people are expected to have been killed in the 7.7 level earthquake. The US has yet to send any assistance to help rescue people trapped in buildings, survivors who have no food or water or to provide logistical assistance because Elon Musk got rid of USAID and the Federal Courts allowed it.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/asia/myanmar-thailand-earthquake-what-we-know-intl-hnk/index.html

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than three days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, toppling buildings as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok and sending tremors through nearby Chinese provinces.

The first 72-hours after a quake are widely regarded as the “golden” window to reach victims buried alive under rubble - after that period the chances of survival without a water source diminishes rapidly.

More than 2,000 people are now confirmed dead in Myanmar after what was the largest earthquake to hit the war-ravaged country in more than a century, authorities say. Experts fear the true death toll could take weeks to emerge.

 

[johaninsc]

 

[KaraBulut]

Another year. Another CPAC. Here's the opening number from Miss and Mrs Matt Schlapp.

Just a reminder: Matt Schlapp and his organization have been sued because Matt likes to get drunk and fondle male staffers. Allegedly. The organization has spent over $1 millon on covering up Schlapp's diddling with the male staffers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/12/16/cpac-matt-schlapp-lawsuit-sexual-misconduct/

(Dec,2023)

CPAC had its annual bigot-a-thon again this year. Instead of being an event where only the fringe lunatics of the Republican Party made an appearance, it's been mainstreamed. Trump gave a speech. They even call their big event the "Ronald Reagan Dinner". They have a "Women's Breakfast", featuring such luminaries as Lauren "handy" Boebert. Megyn Kelly and Mercedes Schlapp did a joint presentation. The "hung man toilet" guy did a presentation.

No CPAC Conference is complete without new allegations of the CPAC chair, Matt Schlapp, getting drunk and feeling up guys. It's become so ordinary for MAGA types to grab other men's junk or do sexting with minors that the Press barely covers it anymore.

New Allegation of Sexual Misconduct Swirls Around CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp

Several people have accused Mr. Schlapp, the Conservative Political Action Conference chairman, of sexual assault. One of his previous accusers received a six-figure settlement.

www.nytimes.com

But as the Conservative Political Action Conference got underway outside Washington on Thursday, the group’s influential chairman, Matt Schlapp, was embroiled in another scandal involving allegations of sexual assault against him.

The convention comes a week after new accusations emerged in an article by the journalist Yashar Ali that Mr. Schlapp, a confidant of Mr. Trump, had groped a man at a bar in Virginia a few days earlier during a gathering of conservatives...

In the Feb. 13 report on Mr. Ali’s Substack site, The Reset, seven people who were at the bar with Mr. Schlapp on the night of Feb. 8 said that they saw him standing uncomfortably close to a group of men. The sources, whose names were withheld because they said that they feared retaliation, told Mr. Ali that Mr. Schlapp had followed some of the men and stood so close to them that it allowed his body to graze theirs.

The people who were interviewed said that one man’s girlfriend confronted Mr. Schlapp, who was accused by the man and several witnesses of grabbing and gripping the man’s genitals while looking directly in the man’s eyes, before Mr. Schlapp was briefly escorted out of the bar by a manager. According to the article, Mr. Schlapp returned to the bar, which led to a heated confrontation.

Mr Schlapp, pictured here giving you his, "Come over here and let me feel you up, hottie" look.

 

[KaraBulut]

Trump appears to have accidentally nominated an honorable man for the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In a speech earlier this year, Trump said that he nominated retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine because, Trump claimed, General Caine said he “loved” Trump and would “kill for you” while he was wearing a MAGA hat.

In today's hearing, General Caine was asked about the story. General Caine implied that it never happened and that he has never worn any political clothing of any type, including a MAGA hat. This poses two possibilities: 1) Trump was lying [again] or 2) 78 year old Trump thought he was nominating someone else.

Gen Caine is a 3 star general. The position requires a 4 star general. Caine will likely be approved on a waiver.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/dan-caine-chairman-joint-chiefs-confirmation-hearing/index.html

Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, denied on Tuesday that he had ever worn a Make America Great Again hat, despite comments by the president saying otherwise...

“Did you wear a MAGA hat at any time?” Wicker asked.

“No, sir,” Caine responded again. Caine added that he has “never worn any political merchandise.”

 

[KaraBulut]

Mike Johnson [R-LA], the Forrest Gump of House Speakers, has evolved from nutty Dominionist back-bencher to a small, petty, Trump brown-nosing prig.

Yesterday, several House members introduced a bill to allow proxy voting for pregnant House members or the spouse of a pregnant House member to vote by proxy. The bill was supported by several Republican lawmakers who have newborns or who have had wives with high-risk pregnancies. Johnson tried to block the bill from reaching the floor. A Republican with a 2 year old used a legislative maneuver called a discharge petition to force a floor vote on the bill. Johnson reportedly threatened members of the Republican caucus in order to get them to vote against the bill. Instead, the discharge position received 9 votes from Republican members, which would have required Johnson to bring the bill to the floor for a vote.

It was pointed out that Speaker Johnson has, himself, voted by proxy multiple times.

Instead of letting the bill come to the floor vote (and likely pass), Johnson canceled all voting for the rest of the week.

2 mothers bring the House to a halt over push to allow proxy voting for new parents

GOP leaders tried to block a bipartisan measure to allow proxy voting, but nine Republicans joined with Democrats to overcome it.

www.ijpr.org

Two moms brought business on the floor of the House of Representatives to a grinding halt on Tuesday over their push to allow remote voting for new parents.

"We said don't f*** with moms," Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., said on the steps of the U.S. Capitol alongside Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.

"We worked as a team," Luna said. "And I think that today is a pretty historical day for the entire conference in showing that the body has decided that parents deserve a voice in Washington and also to the importance of female members having a vote in Washington, D.C."

Luna and Pettersen have been working to pass legislation that would allow new parents to vote by proxy for 12 weeks around the birth of a new child. Luna tried several different tactics to get the bipartisan bill passed. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., originally refused to put the bill on the floor. So Luna teamed up with Democrats to bypass the speaker and force a vote.

After 9 Republicans rebel, House Speaker Johnson fails to stop proxy voting effort led by new moms in Congress

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado want to force a vote on their proposal for proxy voting, which a majority of House colleagues support.

www.pbs.org

House Speaker Mike Johnson exercised his power of the gavel Tuesday in an unusually aggressive effort to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to be able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.

His plan failed, 206-222.

In an unprecedented move, the House Republican leadership had engineered a way to quietly kill the bipartisan plan from two new mothers — Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida and Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado. Their plan has support from a majority of House colleagues. Some 218 lawmakers backed their effort, signing on to a so-called discharge petition to force their proposal on the House floor for consideration.

But Johnson, like GOP leaders before him, rails against proxy voting, as President Donald Trump pushes people back to work in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic work-from-home trend...

It’s the first time in modern House history that the leadership was taking the extraordinary step to try to halt a discharge petition when it’s this far along. Next steps are uncertain.

 

[KaraBulut]

Jim Banks is a new US Republican Senator from Indiana. He was elected to the Senate in 2024, after serving for years in the US House, beating his Democratic opponent by 20%.

Sen Banks apparently feels that he can insult his constituents and Federal workers.

 

[Araucaria]

Jim Banks is a new US Republican Senator from Indiana. He was elected to the Senate in 2024, after serving for years in the US House, beating his Democratic opponent by 20%.

Sen Banks apparently feels that he can insult his constituents and Federal workers.

Oh, that's rich! A greedy rich bastard lecturing the average working Joe about greed.

 

[KaraBulut]

Here's your moment of irony for today: Laura Loomer was, at one time, a target of the far-right because she's Jewish. Now she and Nick Fuentes are BFFs and brag about how they're taking over the Republican Party.


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Something to put a pin in...

Prior to the tariffamegaddon yesterday, Trump was in a 30 minute meeting with Laura Loomer. In that meeting were several members of Trump's National Security staff, including Mike "the number got sucked into my phone" Waltz.

After the meeting, several national security experts were fired.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/white-house-fires-multiple-members-of-trumps-national-security-council-4988ae28?mod=hp_lead_pos1

Several National Security Council staffers were fired this week, people familiar with the matter said, as right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer alleged to President Trump that some members of his administration weren’t aligned with his priorities.

Four NSC aides were fired overnight, the people said. Two other NSC aides were let go on Sunday, others familiar with the matter said. The staffers worked on a series of portfolios, including intelligence, India, congressional affairs and the impact of technology security, the people said.

The exact reasons for the staffers’ ouster couldn’t immediately be determined.

Two people added that this was just the first round of firings. There will be at least 10 people ousted from the NSC by the end of the second round, the people said.

During a Wednesday meeting in the Oval Office, Loomer told the president that she had concerns about some of his staff, the people said.

 

[rareboy]

How it started, how it's going?

 

[rareboy]

And this one deserves a special shout-out. chick-fil-a-owner busted.

once again...they love hiding in plain sight. Not a drag queen.

Ohio Chick-Fil-A owner accused of driving 400 miles to sexually abuse child he met online

Officials said the suspect, Stacy Lee Austin, admitted to the sexual acts and \

www.usatoday.com

 

[KaraBulut]

And this one deserves a special shout-out. chick-fil-a-owner busted.

once again...they love hiding in plain sight. Not a drag queen.

Ohio Chick-Fil-A owner accused of driving 400 miles to sexually abuse child he met online

Officials said the suspect, Stacy Lee Austin, admitted to the sexual acts and \

www.usatoday.com

"Chicken" filet, indeed.

 

[KaraBulut]

This one is not only on Trump, but it has a Kushner connection...

In the first Trump apocalypse term, Trump commuted the sentence a friend of the Kushners named Jonathan Braun. Braun was a loan shark and drug dealer who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Trump commuted Braun's sentence on the last day of his 2021 term.

Since the commutation, Braun has been arrested 5 times. He was finally sent to jail this week for assaulting a 3 year old child.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/04/judge-jails-trump-clemency-recipient-braun-child-assault-arrest.html

• A New York federal judge ordered the jailing without bail of convicted drug dealer and predatory lender Jonathan Braun after his latest arrest.
• President Donald Trump commuted the 10-year prison sentence of Braun on the last day of his first White House term in January 2021.
• Braun had been arrested last weekend on charges of assaulting an acquaintance and that man’s three-year-old child.
• Before that, he was arrested multiple times, including for allegedly assaulting his wife, his elderly father-in-law, groping a nanny, and menacing health-care workers.

 

[KaraBulut]

The Deplorable-In-Chief

Last week, 4 American soldiers from the 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, were based at Fort Stewart, GA were killed in NATO military exercises in Europe. Their bodies were recovered and are in the process of being returned to the US. Their names:

• Staff Sgt. Jose Duenez Jr., 25, of Joliet, Illinois
• Staff Sgt. Edvin F. Franco, 25, of Glendale, California
• Pfc. Dante D. Taitano, 21, of Dededo, Guam
• Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, of Battle Creek, Michigan

4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified

The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of roughly 200 personnel from the U.S., Polish, Estonian and Lithuanian armed forces.

www.military.com

Yesterday, representatives of the Lithuanian government and military lined up to pay respects as the cortege carrying the soldiers' bodies to the airport passed by on the way to the airport.

The bodies are being received today on US soil in a dignified transfer ceremony that their families will be present for.

Where will Donald Trump be today when these soldiers are being honored for their service? Playing golf with the Saudis in Florida.

On a positive note, the soldiers' Senators will be there to pay their respects.

Trump Skips Honoring Soldiers Killed in Lithuania to Watch Golf

Donald Trump skipped a ceremony to recieve the bodies of four soldiers killed in Lithuania in order to attent a LIV golf tournament at his Doral club.

www.rollingstone.com

Lithuanian President President Gitanas Nausėda, government dignitaries, religious leaders, military personnel, and thousands of spectators gathered on Thursday to send the remains of four American soldiers killed during a training exercise back to the U.S. for burial. They are arriving at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware on Friday, and while their bodies will be received by several senators and members of the military, the commander in chief couldn’t be bothered to make the trip. He had a gold tournament to attend.

Instead of receiving the remains of the soldiers under his command, President Donald Trump will be attending a Saudi-backed LIV golf tournament at his Doral resort and golf course in Florida. According to Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin, the president has chosen to send Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in his stead. According to Punchbowl News, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) as well as Sens. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Chris Coons (D-De.) are expected to attend.

 

[Alistair]

I guess this is the best place for this

 

[rareboy]

Meanwhile, how the fuck does Loony Loomer get to force the dismissal of senior NSA staff?

This conspiracy addled wing-nut met with Trump the other morning to point out that she didn't think that some in the Agency weren't loyal enough to Trump and then within hours, four are fired.

 

[rareboy]

Leavitt is a right cunt in the most British menaing of the word possible. It is all a joke to these pathological monsters.

And time for Bukele to be in the sights of someone with engraved ammunition.