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Anti-LGBTQ Texas GOP Megadonor Charged With Two Felonies Related To 2020 “Voter Fraud” Search Incident
The Texas Tribune reports:
Conservative activist Steven Hotze on Wednesday was indicted on two felony charges related to his alleged involvement in an air conditioning repairman being held at gunpoint in 2020 during a bizarre search for fraudulent mail ballots that did not exist, according to his attorney, Gary Polland.
Hotze, 71, was indicted by a Harris County grand jury and faces one count of unlawful restraint and one count of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
The charges stem from Hotze’s hiring of more than a dozen private investigators to look for voter fraud in Harris County ahead of the 2020 presidential election.
Read the full article.
Hotze last appeared on JMG when he left a voice mail for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, telling him to “shoot to kill” Black Lives Matter activists.
You may recall that Steven Hotze has compared gays to “communist termites” eating away at America’s moral fabric. He is also fond of declaring that it’s now a hate crime to denounce homosexuality.
It was Hotze who bankrolled the successful campaign to repeal Houston’s “wicked, evil, Satanic” LGBT rights ordinance, during which he compared gays to rapists and murderers.
According to Hotze, same-sex marriage will result in children “practicing sodomy” in kindergarten.
In 2017, he appeared here when he “prophesied” that God will deliver “just retribution” to lawmakers who vote for LGBT rights.
When he’s not calling on God to kill politicians or for the governor to kill Black Lives Matter activists, Hotze sells “miracle” supplements because high cholesterol doesn’t really cause heart disease.
Hotze regularly quotes QAnon slogans.
These old white trumper’s think they can get away with stuff just like Trump does.
This is why Trump is their hero.
mikeiver Longpole • 2 months ago • edited
Guess what, he will get away with it. This is the one star state we are talking about here. The state that put a black woman in jail for 5 years for attempting to vote with the help of a poll worker and a provisional ballot when she was banned. He will 100% be let off!
Republicans keep talking about voter fraud but it seems the only people committing voter fraud are Republicans.
Christopher Gigi • 2 months ago
It’s always projection with that lot.
Dude is facing some serious charges but he is white, christian and conservative so this kind of behavior is what we should expect.
Police Rescue 77 From Nigerian “Rapture” Church
The New Arab reports:
Nigerian police have rescued dozens of people, including many children, from a church basement where they had been told to wait for what they believed would be second coming of Christ, police said.
Police raided the Whole Bible Believers Church in southwestern Ondo State on Friday after a tip from a local mother who said that her children were being kept there against their will. Seventy-seven people, including 26 children, were rescued and two church pastors were arrested, Ondo State police spokeswoman Funmilayo Odunlami said in a statement.
Police said the people had been kept in the church after being told they must wait for Rapture, a belief among some Christians that they will ascend to heaven when Jesus Christ returns.
The Voice Of America reports:
Reports say some of the people had been in the Whole Bible Believers Church for as long as six months and had been convinced they would soon witness the second coming of Jesus Christ. While some of the people are reported to have been kidnapped, others came freely.
One young woman said that she had decided to join the church because “my parents were leading me away from God and I want to make heaven.” Authorities conducted the raid on the church after complaints from parents. The pastor and other members of the church have been arrested, police said.
So, let me get this straight….
The Rapture DIDN’T come, and they waited as long as SIX MONTHS!?! What is wrong with their Jeebus anyway? How disappointed they must be with him!
Still busy rigging sportsball games. He’ll get around to it. Eventually.
TX County Warns Of Cultists Scamming Black Voters
Houston’s ABC News affiliate reports:
The Harris County Elections Office is warning voters about a new scam targeting private voter information. At least one county commissioner said a group with possible links to the Republican party approached residents living in Sunnyside in order to get their information.
Neighbors in the Sunnyside community were taken back when they learned a group under the name of “ Texas Election Network” could be impersonating election workers and going door-to-door in an attempt to obtain private voter information and sign affidavits.
The men had badges and a clipboard, and officials said they went door to door trying to get voters’ information. The Harris County Republican Party said it’s their understanding the group is a registered non-profit and citizen volunteers.
Read the full article. Per Wikipedia, Sunnyside is a “predominantly” black neighborhood.
Trump-backed Michigan secretary of state nominee said abortion is ‘child sacrifice’
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/03/politics/kfile-kristina-karamo-abortion-child-sacrifice/index.html
These are not fringe candidates anymore, these are the mainstream republican party nominees and candidates for office. My dogs that love gravy what kind of people vote for these people? Is this the country you want to live in? Hugs
(CNN)Before becoming the Trump-backed Republican nominee for Michigan secretary of state, Kristina Karamo said that abortion is “child sacrifice” and a “satanic practice.”
“Abortion is really nothing new. The child sacrifice is a very satanic practice, and that’s precisely what abortion is. And we need to see it as such,” Karamo, a community college professor, said in an October 2020 episode of her podcast “It’s Solid Food,” which CNN’s KFile reviewed.“When people in other cultures, when they engage in child sacrifice, they didn’t just sacrifice the child for the sake of bloodshed,” Karamo said later in the episode. “They sacrificed the child cuz they were hoping to get prosperity and that’s precisely why people have abortion now.‘Because I’m not ready. I don’t wanna have a baby. I don’t feel like it. I don’t have time. I wanna make more money. I want my freedom.’ So you’re sacrificing that child hoping to get something out of their death, which is your freedom, your happiness, your prosperity.”In another comment, Karamo called abortion the “the greatest crime of our nation’s history.”Karamo and her campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment by CNN.Karamo, a devout conservative Christian who has served on the board of Michigan’s Right to Life organization and on the board of an anti-abortion pregnancy crisis center affiliate in Detroit, reiterated that belief in another episode from July 2020, in which she said humans have sacrificed other humans, including their own children, for “thousands of years, just packaged differently.”“[People] were sacrificing them to these deities, which were really demons,” she said.Karamo went on to say in a later episode of her podcast reviewed by CNN’s KFile that demonic possession is real and can be transmitted through “intimate relationships.”“If a person has demonic possession — I know it’s gonna sound really crazy to me saying that for some people, thinking like what?!” Karamo said in September 2020. “But having intimate relationships with people who are demonically possessed or oppressed — I strongly believe that a person opens themselves up to possession. Demonic possession is real.”Karamo has repeatedly touted to her followers that left-leaning elites are trying to push their own values, including pro-abortion views, on America. In a video she posted on her website in 2018 that CNN’s KFile accessed and reviewed, Karamo suggested a conspiracy in which left-leaning political operatives who now have business relationships with Netflix — including prominent philanthropist and Democratic donor George Soros, former national security adviser Susan Rice and former President Barack Obama — were taking over the streaming service to push pro-abortion content.“Is abortion funny to you? I would argue that it is nothing funny about abortion whatsoever, but apparently Netflix found it quite all right to air episode of Michelle Wolf’s show or season,” Karamo said, describing the comedian’s short-lived Netflix show that aired in 2018 in which Wolf addressed having an abortion.“Why is Netflix putting out a series like this?” she said. “All these people with these interesting political motives, all teaming up to create content for you to consume.”The political newcomer rose to prominence in Michigan politics after she claimed she had witnessed fraud as a poll challenger during the 2020 election and baselessly claimed widespread voter fraud occurred in the state, signing on to an unsuccessful lawsuit. Karamo’s promotion of election denial and other conspiracy theories earned her Trump’s endorsement last fall. If elected to Michigan’s top election post, she would oversee the 2024 presidential election in which Trump is weighing a run.Karamo’s embrace of conspiracy theories has also led to her association with QAnon, a conspiracy theory that posits that Trump was working to take down a shadow cabal of Democratic politicians and elites running a child sex-trafficking ring and that one day soon cabal members will face arrests, tribunals and mass executions. Last year she spoke at a QAnon conference in Las Vegas featuring prominent Q influencers.She previously called for a “citizenship arrest” of Soros and said he “needs to be in jail” and spread the Clinton Kill List conspiracy, a baseless conspiracy theory that alleges former President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have had dozens of people assassinated.CNN previously reported some of Karamo’s beliefs and rhetoric, including her attacks against premarital sex and the LGBTQ community, such as that it will lead to the “normalization” of pedophilia; her anti-vaxxer comments; and her election denialism. Karamo frequently attacks those she disagrees with as being instruments of Satan or “demonic,” including the Democratic Party and the LGBTQ community.
Karoma, who has headlined at multiple QAnon events, last appeared on JMG when she declared that singers Beyonce, Cardi B, and Ariana Grande are pagan witches and “tools of Lucifer.” Karoma also claims that yoga is a “demonic practice” and that its poses are meant to summon Satan.
I was thinking of trying the Lotus position, but I’m afraid that all I’d summon would be a chiropractor.
Great another “Demon Seed” fruitcake.
If this country had a functioning mental health system (or much of any government not based on selfishness), this lunatic would be confined to an inpatient mental health facility to get the appropriate care (therapy, medication, support). Instead, she’s running for elected office, teaching at the postsecondary level, and people believe her shit.
This country is fucked.
Agreed. It’s astounding the world woke up from the Christian march across the planet as they spilled rivers of blood. Apparently, they’re about to do it again in a new purge of the ‘unclean’. And Dems won’t have a clue it’s about to happen… to them.
College Grad SLAMS Texas Republican AG after more threats against women
Child abuse is …
Who needs hatred when they have Christian love?
Physical violence and sexual abuse? It’s a good thing no teacher mentioned the fact that Heather has two mommies. The Republicans would have closed the place down.
Unlicensed religious schools.
At this point, we have to ask if there is any “Christian” organization that doesn’t abuse children.
A very high percentage of camps and wilderness experiences for young people labeled delinquent are abusive. There have been numerous scandals involving secular camps and adding Jesus is pretty much bound to make it worse.
“Last year, Missouri lawmakers passed legislation that gives the state
more oversight over unlicensed religious boarding schools, including the
ability to petition a court to close them if there are health and
safety concerns.”
Unlicensed boarding schools should be not be permitted, religious or otherwise. The GOP ideal of the invisible hand of the free market doesn’t work as long as the marketer gets to keep their practices invisible to the parents and guardians.
Jay Silversmith • 26 minutes ago
Taxpayer money going to pay for religious schools, frees the church to open indoctrination camps.
Furious Boston Smalls REACTS to Ohio GOP denying 10 year old victim abortion care
Patriot Front Extremists March In Downtown Boston
Holy dogs that love gravy this is history happening again. The US is being taken over by right wing thugs with approval from the Republican party. Hugs
The Boston Herald reports:
A group of about 100 marchers identifying themselves by flyers as belonging to the white nationalist group the Patriot Front, cut through the heart of downtown Saturday sparking a confrontation. A scanner call came in at around 12:30 p.m. announcing that a group had gone up to a rental truck parked in the area of the Haymarket MBTA station and off-loaded a number of shields and flags.
Many were U.S. flags, with at least one flown upside-down and many showing just the 13 stars in a circle for the original U.S. colonies, as well as flags featuring different designs. Many flags also had a stylized version of the symbol that represented Benito Mussolini’s National Fascist Party. Photos from the scene show that many, if not most, of the marchers were dressed in matching khaki pants and navy polo shirts and wore bandanas over their lower faces.
Read the full article.
As you can see below, the homocon fake news site Gateway Pundit is spreading the QAnon lie that Patriot Front is a secret operation by the FBI.
Today’s Klan
Frank McPherson justme • 2 hours ago
Still white, still wearing matching outfits, still scared white men
Again with the anonymous haters. They aren’t brave enough to show their faces, but happy to show their hate. Man up boys and show us who you are!
They took a page out of their grandparents’ KKK playbook. Disguise your identity so you won’t be identified and fired from your job.
Masks don’t bother them when they are covering their faces because they are racist haters.
No pre-announcement of their plans to march… so that they meet no organized response. Masks… so that no one is identifiable. Ditto for the khaki/nay uniform.
Immediate dispersal when pushback from the public starts. So brave, these patriots.
I’m learning US American culture :
– the more flags you have, the more of a ‘patriot’ you are.
So these dressed-up boys must be real ‘patriots’.
Gigi JackFknTwist • 2 hours ago
Correct.
Jerry Kott JackFknTwist • 2 hours ago
that is how it works, The bigger the Cross you wear or carry, makes you the best christian.
