Category: Anger
Lobbying Group Rebrands As A Church To Hide Their Corruption
Read more HERE: https://www.rawstory.com/family-resea…
“The Family Research Council’s multimillion-dollar headquarters sit on G Street in Washington, D.C., just steps from the U.S. Capitol and the White House, a spot ideally situated for its work as a right-wing policy think tank and political pressure group.
From its perch at the heart of the nation’s capital, the FRC has pushed for legislation banning gender-affirming surgery; filed amicus briefs supporting the overturning of Roe v. Wade; and advocated for religious exemptions to civil rights laws. Its longtime head, a former state lawmaker and ordained minister named Tony Perkins, claims credit for pushing the Republican platform rightward over the past two decades.
What is the FRC? Its website sums up the answer to this question in 63 words: “A nonprofit research and educational organization dedicated to articulating and advancing a family-centered philosophy of public life. In addition to providing policy research and analysis for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government, FRC seeks to inform the news media, the academic community, business leaders, and the general public about family issues that affect the nation from a biblical worldview.”
In the eyes of the Internal Revenue Service, though, it is also a church, with Perkins as its religious leader.” ***
Trump gets BRUTAL news from the January 6 Committee
QAnon/GOP Senate Candidate Charged With Filing False Report Of Child Trafficking At Maryland Adult Bookstore
The republicans of today have no decency or sense of decorum. They don’t live in reality, they make stuff up and lie as well as they breath. They are gang thugs who think winning at any cost is the goal. If it harms those they don’t like that is a plus benefit for them. We can not let these people take over the government, we must vote Democrat in the midterm elections no matter what. We have to have a functioning government for the people, not an oligarchy that uses government to produce their profit at the expense of the public. Hugs
Baltimore’s CBS affiliate reports:
Ryan Dark White, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Maryland under the name Jon McGreevey, has been arrested and charged with filing a false report after he allegedly told law enforcement an adult bookstore in Edgewood was forcing a young girl to perform sex acts on men, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office said.
The sheriff’s office now says the story was made up. “It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
In April, a tipster provided information to detectives with the Harford County Sheriff’s Office that a man and a young girl between, 10-12 years old, entered an adult bookstore in the 3000 block of Pulaski Highway and the child was forced to perform sex acts on male customers, police said.
Law & Crime reports:
Sheriff Gahler added, “It is even more appalling that another individual, who is running for a law enforcement position, would embrace such an obviously false narrative in an effort to gain political traction – nothing more.” This swipe is apparently aimed at Andy Kuhl, who is running for Baltimore County sheriff as a Republican.
Kuhl told Law&Crime in an email that in his opinion, this was as political smear campaign against White–whom he called McGreevey–ahead of the upcoming primary.
In a statement, he called him a credible informant, told Law&Crime he showed up to the July 7 interview unannounced on White’s behalf, and accused detectives of strange behavior, such as messages about there being good news in the case. He told Law&Crime on the phone that he did not respond to those messages.
White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting. That’s him with Kuhl in the video below.
“It is shameful that a candidate for public office would make up such a story and use it to further his own political agenda,” said Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey R. Gahler.
Welcome to the New Republican Party.
Todd20036 K Elmquist • 12 hours ago
It’s not new, just the hoods are off
teeveedub K Elmquist • 11 hours ago
Making up stories to further their political agenda is all the Republicon party has. It’s their brand. This scumbag is just aligning himself with the party’s core values.
Soooo, he was caught at the bookstore and made up this crazy story to make himself look like a kristjun?
“White/McGreevey reportedly told police that he was working at the bookstore as part of an undercover drug sting.”
Cops and politicians are always hassling that bookstore. (Or so I’ve been told)
It is okay for Republicans to go around with two names, the one they have on official records and one they chose for themselves, a nickname or whatever they’re more comfortable using.
A trans person choosing a name for themselves?
Oh, no that can’t be allowed. It would be “confusing”. It goes against someone else’s religious beliefs. I’ve even seen it said that trans people changing their names snarls up the legal system, somehow making it impossible to conduct a complete criminal background check if or when necessary to do so..
Sanders: Manchin Purposely Sabotages Biden’s Agenda
I watched the interview in real time. The host kept cutting him off. She did not want him to point out it was a deliberate attempt to sabotage the Biden term and she tried to stop Sanders from talking about how Manchin rakes in big money from donors to deny the public any benefits. Sanders explained how Manchin’s game is to draw everything out then kill it then let it start to repeat his prior actions. draw it out and delay anything getting done. He also explained that Manchin is not serious about cutting inflation just using it as a scare word because plans developed that he kills have all had things to cut inflation. I am not sure if is is all money or if Manchin thinks he should be president or what, but he really wants to take down Biden and the Democrats. I suspect it is because of the attempt to hold his daughter accountable for the horrific increase in price of the EpiPen when it shouldn’t have needed to be increased at all. Hugs
“He has sabotaged the president’s agenda. No, look, if you check the record, six months ago, I made it clear that you have people like Manchin – Sinema to a lesser degree – who are intentionally sabotaging the president’s agenda, what the American people want, what a majority of us in the Democratic Caucus want.
“Nothing new about this. And the problem was that we continue to talk to Manchin like he was serious. He was not. This is a guy who is a major recipient of fossil fuel money, a guy who has received campaign contributions from 25 Republican billionaires.
“In my humble opinion, Manchin represents the very wealthiest people in this country, not working families in West Virginia or America.” – Sen. Bernie Sanders, this morning on ABC This Week.
I don’t think it takes a lot of deep thinking to see that Bernie is right about Manchin. He claims to be working towards a compromise but never gets there. We need a ton of blue votes in the midterms to override him, and then kick him to the curb.
Grimes soylocomoco • 15 hours ago
Manchin is the Lucy to Biden’s Charlie Brown
TrollopeReader soylocomoco • 15 hours ago
And if after last summer (when he knew Manchin’s bottom line)…Schumer is either clueless or impotent as majority leader. Or both. Same damn pattern …every time.
Guestfornow soylocomoco • 15 hours ago
Ton more blue votes
Hold him close.
Keep your enemies closer.
We will need him at some point
You just know if the left had 59 senators, the right would find a way to trick the left to go back and add the filibuster.
MTG: Non-Biological Parents Are “Fake Mom And Dad”
“So let’s talk about children. Children are in the greatest danger in America today because traditional family values are being destroyed.
“The idea that mom and dad together – not fake mom and fake dad, but biological mom and biological dad – can raise their children together and do what’s right for their children.
“Raising them to be confident in who they are and in their identity. Their identity that they’re a child by God.” – Marjorie Taylor Greene, speaking to far-right troll Alex Stein.
Stein first appeared on JMG in March 2022 for a deranged “assassinate Putin” rap before a Texas city council.
This week he made headlines for sexually harassing AOC on the steps of the Capitol. Since then he’s been rewarded with appearances on many right wing shows and podcasts. Like Greene, Stein is a COVID denialist.
I’m adopted. They made it clear to me as soon as I was able to understand that I was adopted.
Not like it wasn’t obvious… I’m brown, they were very white.
They were not Fake in any way.
Phil in Colorado KaneHau • 7 hours ago
I had a well-meaning co-worker who knew that I was married to a guy and had just adopted a baby who was mixed race. She asked if we were going to tell him he was adopted. I just looked at her until the light bulb came on. 🙂
cheakamus KaneHau • 5 hours ago
And above all, they chose you!
Caitlyn Haiku KaneHau • 4 hours ago
Actual family is based on who you care about and who cares about you, not who you might be biologically related to.
Wait, don’t these wackos insist that outlawing abortion is fine because women can just give up said babies for adoption?
This!!! It’s like they don’t even listen to their own damn arguments. Christ they piss me off!!
amy cuscuriae Sarah • 7 hours ago
But those children created in sin must bear that for the rest of their lives: bastards. /s
That’s what they say. What they really want is to punish both the mother and the child for the mother’s sinful act.
Mark Cross • 7 hours ago • edited
So…stepparents, foster parents, and adoptive parents are fakes.
And of course, that makes the Virgin Mary’s Joseph a fake dad too.
When I think of fake dads, I’m more inclined to think of a Herschel Walker kind of dad that plays no role in their child’s life.
I’m sure there are parents–re-married widows and widowers, divorced and re-married, parents of adopted children, and a dozen other combinations of parents who are not biological–who would be happy to disagree with you, Marge. This is why you sound like such an idiot when you speak, dear.
Texas Paul REACTS to Fox News Calling 10-Year-Old Victim a Liar
Texas Paul REACTS to Colorado Republican Pressuring Others to Falsify 2020 Election Results
What the hell is Republican party, a crime syndicate? Organized criminal mobs? They seem to have no regard for the truth, for the laws, and for the voters. Hugs
Ted Cruz: SCOTUS Was “Clearly Wrong” On Obergefell
In the newsweek article Cruz argues that the right to same gender marriage was not a long held right historically. That thinking means that that no rights not established in the founding of the country or specifically written as an amendment are not rights nor should the people be able to do that thing. You know what that means right, only white straight Christian males who own land will have any say in the government or have rights in the country. It is so stupid, and they know it because they champion the idea that unrestricted gun ownership is a right yet it only happened in 2008 by Antonin Scalia. So why should that be a right it was not something the founders wanted as a right for the people?
The idea that some rights like marriage should be left to states is nonsense. Think about having a marriage that means nothing if you travel or are forced to live in a Republican controlled state. There are about 1,100 legal benefit that will be turned on and off as you cross state borders. What about medical rights? What about children, will you suddenly not be their parent as you cross from state to state. It simply is unworkable. Almost all the same arguments should and had been made about a woman’s right to control her body and get an abortion. But the religious dictatorship is not willing to reason or think this out, they want the right to control / force others to live by their religious dictates. Ted Cruz wanted to make dildos illegal in Texas. Ever wonder about people that want that kind of control over other people?
The fact is that the constitution was designed to be a living document that changed as the public’s needs change and understand grew. It was not meant to be a religious tome of never changing commandments, as the US was never meant to be a theocracy. I just don’t understand the drive people like Cruz have to restrict things other people do that do not involve or effect them in anyway. How consenting adults have sex or don’t have sex is nothing anyones should even be thinking about much less have a say over. Anyway welcome to the United States of Jesusland, a theocratic country divided and forced to follow the outdated writing of people 2,500 years ago who some people think were the pinnacle of enlightenment, science, morality, and ways of governance. Will those people give up their phones and modern medications / treatments? Hugs
Newsweek reports:
Senator Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican, said Saturday that he believes the Supreme Court was “clearly wrong” when it decided in a historic 2015 ruling that same-sex marriage was legal under the Constitution.
In a video uploaded to YouTube from his Verdict+ podcast, Cruz discussed what was described as the “vulnerability” of the Obergefell ruling. He argued that the ruling was not correctly decided, making a similar argument to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in his concurring opinion when the top judicial body formally overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the senator argued in the clip from his podcast. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Read the full article.
Cruz, you will recall, made opposition to same-sex marriage a centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign.
His father, Rafael Cruz, a part-time pastor, served as his surrogate on the issue, regularly issuing frothing Nazi comparisons, predictions of God destroying the nation, and claims that gays would force the legalization of pedophilia.
Rafael Cruz, now 83, made his living selling dietary supplements for Mannatech, a multi-level marketing outfit that has been repeatedly sued for claims that their products were effective treatments for cancer, autism, and diabetes.
Trump repeatedly accused Rafael Cruz of having a role in the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
“Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Except for the more than 1000 federal benefits and other recognitions.
Houndentenor clay • 20 minutes ago
RWNJs are only for things being left to the states when it’s a RWNJ item. If it’s gun control or something else (see the recent decision on NY gun laws) they want the federal government to override the states. This has nothing to do with states’ rights and everything to do with whatever talking point promotes their agenda in that moment.
Left to the states, Clarence and Ginni would not be married.
Boreal Ed B • 2 hours ago • edited
Cons want it both ways, “left to the states” when bigotry is state supported and left to the Federal govt when it is not. They will be coming for abortion rights with federal law to make sure no state allows abortions. It’s why they worked so hard for this court.
Rehnquist, who Cruz clerked for, wanted it both ways– 1) the courts weren’t allowed to “ratchet up” civil rights, that was the legislature’s domain. 2) the legislatures weren’t allowed to create any “special rights” not identified in the (original) Constitution (Rehnquist wanted to limit the 14th to Civil War issues, which meant its recognition on Native Americans as humans with human rights was irrelevant to him).
Rehnquist was the red flag the ACLU tried to warn everyone about as proof of what conservatives were trying to do to the courts.
Too bad no one listened.
“Obergefell, like Roe v. Wade, ignored two centuries of our nation’s history,” the senator argued in the clip from his podcast. “Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”….
Kind of like Loving vs Virginia…..
And slavery. That was left to the states too and look how that turned out.
IamSmartypants Brian • 30 minutes ago
Except for the federal Fugitive Slave Act which forced free states to return escaped slaves to their former masters.
What, me worry? • 2 hours ago • edited
While we’re overturning what used to be considered settled law, let’s overturn Citizens United. Corporations are NOT people, and money is NOT speech, and neither one of them is our friend.
Rights aren’t rights if they can be taken away. They’re privileges.
Aren’t marriages licences just legal contracts between two parties? And doest the full faith and credit clause require a contract signed in one state to be valid in all states?
Normally yes. But they’ll invent some bullshit 🥨 logic to support their position.
And yet divorce, something banned by Christ Almighty, is still OK, and indulged in by adulterous Rethugs.
Do Something Nice ⵓ🐠ⵓ🐠 🏴☠️ • 2 hours ago
1967 Loving v Virginia was not “left to the states” to decide.
David in Palm Springs • 2 hours ago
“Marriage was always an issue that was left to the states.”
Not true. The Supreme Court FORCED states to allow interracial marriage. If they hadn’t, it would have taken another 20 years until the public approved of it. Unlike same-sex marriage. Which already has a 70% approval.
He, and the theocratic assholes on the SC, are in the vast minority when it comes to marriage equality.
Drop the charade. They don’t care about state rights, legal theory, or any principles. They care about power and money and their theocratic supremacy. Everything else is pretext in service of those outcomes.
Drop the charade. They don’t care about state rights, legal theory, or any principles. They care about power and money and their theocratic supremacy. Everything else is pretext in service of those outcomes.
April Smith Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 2 hours ago • edited
Before you know it only white male land owners will have the vote.
GOP Rep Says Pharmacists Should Have The Right To Refuse To Fill Prescriptions For Abortion Pills [VIDEO]
No one has the idea of doing the job you are hired to do, and if you don’t want to do it then don’t take the job. Taking the job and then saying I wont do this or I don’t do that is stupid to me. Plus none of these people understand professional standards or requirements it seems. They all seem to just want the right to force their will on others and get paid for it. I don’t like spinach but I don’t insist the grocery store stop selling it. Hugs
“Some of these medications are used for legitimate reasons, there’s no question of about that. People are still going to be able to get those medications.
“They’re still going to be able to get their arthritis medication if it’s being used for arthritis. They are still going to be able to get the medications that are written and prescribed for them if it’s to be used for that purpose.
“A pharmacist should have the right to deny filling a prescription if they know it’s going to be used for an abortion and if they morally object to that.” – GOP Rep. Buddy Carter, speaking to hate group leader Tony Perkins.
Carter last appeared on JMG in 2017 when he raged about the Senate blocking a move to repeal Obamacare, saying, “Somebody needs to go over there into that Senate and snatch a knot in their ass.” To which everyone else said, “What does that even mean?”
Dreaming Vertebrate • 37 minutes ago
Sorry, but if you can’t fill people’s medical prescriptions, promptly and courteously, you should be FIRED!
clay Dreaming Vertebrate • 33 minutes ago
(and license removed)
Boreal Dreaming Vertebrate • 32 minutes ago
And banned from being a pharmacist anywhere else.
The person who knows the purpose of the medication is the one writing the prescription, not the one filling it. He’s lying about what the pharmacist “knows” and is empowering their prejudices and suspicions.
In Britain pharmacists who refuse to dispense prescriptions lose their license to work.
Women can also get over the counter abortion pills without a doctor’s prescription.
They’re coming for the straights now and all hell will (finally) break loose. And just wait until they ban condoms and birth control pills. That’s when the shit really hits the fan.
Ragnar Lothbrok • 20 minutes ago
The job description is to dispense medicine to customers.
Unless you don’t wanna?
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 35 minutes ago
Cool…cool. I look forward to the Islamic, Mormon or S Baptist cashier refusing to ring up alcohol for customers next.
SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad • 43 minutes ago
People will still be able to get arthritis medication? OMG, that’s outrageous. Obviously if god gave someone arthritis, it is his will, just like a raped 10 year old. I’m sure any decent god-fearing Christian pharmacist will refuse to dispense arthritis (or ANY medication) based on sincerely held religious principals.
They can just stand behind the pharmacy counter at CVS reading their bible and refusing to wait on 100% of customer.
weshlovrcm • 21 minutes ago • edited
Once again, someone’s perverted version of “religious beliefs’ Is permitted to control your life. The result is my religious beliefs and/or yours and or those who do not believe, do not matter. That’s not called “religious freedom,” it’s called religious bigorty.
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