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Bannon Claims Buffalo Mass Shooter Is “A Gay Guy”

Bannon Claims Buffalo Mass Shooter Is “A Gay Guy”

“He’s an Azov, he’s a gay guy, he’s got all these insignias. He comes across – he says he’s a left-wing authoritarian, an eco authoritarian. It’s in the manifesto, which they won’t release. I don’t know, just release it, it’s not gonna warp people’s mind. People can make decisions, parents got to be on top of stuff. Why are the parents that – is this kid going to church? Is he in church?” – Steve Bannon, inventing things that nobody else who have actually read the shooter’s manifesto have reported.

 

 

crewman • 3 hours ago

“Let’s just put a lot of crazy shit out there that the left and media will spend time responding to so they don’t focus as much on the fact that we 100% enabled, encouraged, and applauded the mass murderer terrorist.”

Steverino crewman • an hour ago

Distraction and deflection. With a heapin’ helpin’ of projection.

Yves R. Mektin • 3 hours ago

By the end of the week, on the rightwing media, Payton Gendron will be a Native American vegan lesbian senior member of the Biden administration.

HeyYouKidsGetOffMyLawn Yves R. Mektin • 2 hours ago

and a member of both BLM and Antifa.

Octoberfurst Yves R. Mektin • 2 hours ago

Don’t forget he’s also Antifa! He did it just to make the Right look bad because, as we all know, the Right has no problem with people of color!

Rebecca Gardner • 3 hours ago

What does that have to do with anything.

I am so tired of the daily batshittery, pull whatever out of your ass, “news.”

Smear the Queer…
Find someone whose done a horrendous act and smear them as being gay soas to smear the gay community as harbingers of evil. Ties in well with his anti-woke and his don’t say gay support.

Melissia • 3 hours ago

Anything to distract from the fact that he is a white supremacist who openly stated in his manifesto that he was motivated by white supremacy.

Elmer Fudpucker • 2 hours ago

Fat, drunk and stupid.

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danolgb • 3 hours ago

“It’s in the manifesto, which they won’t release.”

If they won’t release it, how do you know it’s in it. I’ve seen other people on the right claiming he’s a Bernie supporter. They’re desperate to shift the blame.

Misutaa Roboto • 2 hours ago

Hear that, folks? He wasn’t motivated by the stuff you’ve been hearing on my radio show like he said. It was really something about the environment all along, or some kind of fаggot shit like that. Yeah…that’s it.

Now that we’ve settled that, back to how the Jews are using the blacks to overwhelm and replace the poor, embattled white race.

Florida Elections Now In The Hands Of QAnon Nutbag

Florida Elections Now In The Hands Of QAnon Nutbag

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

Gov. Ron DeSantis replaced outgoing Secretary of State Laurel Lee on Friday with state Rep. Cord Byrd, who cursed at Black Democratic lawmakers during the session and whose wife has made comments supporting QAnon and the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots.

DeSantis recently appointed Byrd’s wife, Esther Byrd, a former Marine who works in her husband’s law office, to the state Board of Education. She defended theories of QAnon, a far-right conspiracy cult that says the world is ruled by Satan-worshipping child molesters, after the couple was seen flying a QAnon flag on their boat.

They both quit Twitter for more than a year after she posted comments supporting the Capitol insurrection. “ANTIFA and BLM can burn and loot buildings and violently attack police and citizens. But when Trump supporters peacefully protest, suddenly ‘Law and Order’ is all they can talk about!” she tweeted.

Read the full article.

 

Ragnar_Lothbrok • 6 hours ago

EMERGENCY:
Voting rights act needed asap

Gregory In Seattle Ragnar_Lothbrok • 6 hours ago

Manchin would never, ever allow that.

Serene Pumpkin Dwight Williamson • 6 hours ago

I hope you are able to vote in November, and that your vote gets counted, and that the result (if the Democrat wins) is allowed to stand.

Darreth • 6 hours ago

Since this is perfectly legal and there’s no recourse we are watching the real time dissolution of the republic.

A QAnon based nation with nukes will not allow the rest of the world to survive.

The Sentinel • 6 hours ago

Oh brother….

Esther’s FB profile: https://www.facebook.com/EB…

Unapologetically American. Unapologetically Christian.
I’m a strong, conservative woman with a strong, conservative husband and strong, conservative kids – just trying to do our part to save America from rabid, radical leftists! God Bless America!

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crewman The Sentinel • 6 hours ago

No one is asking her to apologize for being conservative.
No one is asking her to apologize for being Christian.
But we are asking her to quit calling us “rabid” and “radical” just because we aren’t conservative or Christian.

Ann Kah RIck Notch • 6 hours ago

When truth died, so did democracy. Trump followed Hitler’s playbook regarding the media.

William • 6 hours ago

Think of the time and money saved by immediately declaring Trump the winner of the 2024 election in Florida!

boobert • 6 hours ago • edited

That’s how you win elections.

Serene Pumpkin boobert • 6 hours ago

No, that’s how you steal elections.

Adam Schmidt boobert • 5 hours ago

More like that’s how you end democracy by having sham elections.

DeSantis Claims State Will Assume Control Of Disney’s Special Government District, Not The Local Counties

DeSantis Claims State Will Assume Control Of Disney’s Special Government District, Not The Local Counties

The Orlando Sentinel reports:

The state will likely assume control of Disney World’s Reedy Creek Improvement District, rather than local governments absorbing it, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday. DeSantis said he is working on a proposal that likely will be considered by the Legislature after the November elections.

Reedy Creek, which encompasses Disney World and neighboring properties, is set to dissolve on June 1, 2023. The governor’s office hasn’t released a written plan detailing how the dissolution of Disney World’s private government will unfold.

At an event in Sanford, DeSantis also insisted Central Florida taxpayers will not be forced to absorb the district’s nearly $1 billion in debt. Under state law, the district’s assets and liabilities would be transferred to the “local general purpose government” when it’s abolished.

Read the full article. In other words, every Floridian will eat that billion dollars, not just the residents of Orange and Osceola counties.

 

 

Jean-Marc Canada – ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ • 41 minutes ago

Can you spell G-O-V-E-R-N-M-E-N-T-A-L O-V-E-R-R-E-A-C-H

Bruno • an hour ago

Make no mistake, if the law they passed was fine and dandy, this part would’ve been initially included. Fucking idiots.

Rex • 42 minutes ago

Florida residents are going to pay for DeSantis’ asshole moves for decades to come, just like we’re all paying for Trump’s.

Sam_Handwich • 36 minutes ago

I guess Floridians can either smarten up and organize or let this showboating asshole take you down the tubes with him.

Rebecca Gardner • 22 minutes ago

This shitshow is a portent of America’s immediate future.

Eliot • 31 minutes ago

Why anyone would choose to do business in Florida after this is a mystery.

Child Whips Front Door Of Black Family

I watch a lot of videos.  But this is one of the most important ones on racism and bigotry I want people to watch.   It is short, but powerful.   This is what really is being taught to young white kids by maga / racist parents.  Notice that when the black guy with damage to his door and car tries to talk to the racist white farther of the child, the white man discharges a gun.  Can you imagine living next door to them?  Notice the open threatening hostility of a child’s birthday cake with a political message that drums into them violence if they don’t get their way even while they are too young to understand it.  The cake was for a ten year old.   This is happening in the US.  This is happening as the Republicans champion racism while decrying that democrats and teacher are grooming / indoctrinating kids because they teach the real racist history of the US and are tolerant of the LGBTQ+ kids who are different from the mainstream.  This the part of the US we need to understand has had a real resurgence since tRump an dnow supported activly by the Republican party.   Hugs

GOP Senator Proves Republicans Have Lost Their Damn Minds!

In his speech against abortion, Montana Senator Steve Daines compares human fetuses to the eggs of sea turtles and eagles. Sandee Lovas breaks it down.

Gay Class President Censored By Florida High School

Class president and first openly LGBTQ student at his school Zander Moricz is taking on his school for censorship. Jayar Jackson and Jessica Burbank break it down on The Watchlist.

“Florida high school senior Zander Moricz was called into his principal’s office last week. As class president his whole high school career — and his school’s first openly LGBTQ student to hold the title — this was a fairly routine request. But once he entered the administrator’s office, he said, he immediately knew “this wasn’t a typical meeting.” ***

A Sinn Féin victory in Northern Ireland could spell much-needed change for the LGBTQ+ community

A Sinn Féin victory in Northern Ireland could spell much-needed change for the LGBTQ+ community

For the first time ever, Sinn Féin is projected to become the biggest party at Stormont, meaning the DUP could lose the first minister post.

If those projections come to pass, it would be a history-making moment in Northern Ireland. If Sinn Féin emerges as the country’s biggest party, it will be the first time in a century that a nationalist party has had majority support.

 

In simple terms, that means Sinn Féin’s Michelle O’Neill will take the first minister post for the first time. Notably, it would also mean that Northern Ireland would have its first ever pro-LGBTQ+ first minister.

The DUP’s decline probably doesn’t have much to do with the party’s staunch opposition to LGBTQ+ rights – it’s likely more to do with the Northern Irish protocol and Brexit – but the result could still have a positive impact on queer people.

The DUP has blocked progress on LGBTQ+ rights in Northern Ireland

 

Ever since it was founded by Ian Paisley in 1971, the DUP has been fiercely opposed to any advancement in LGBTQ+ rights. That started with Paisley’s “Save Ulster from Sodomy” campaign in the 1970s, which argued that homosexuality should continue to be criminalized because the Bible said it was a sin.

In the decades since, the DUP has done little to win support from the LGBTQ+ community. Numerous MLAs and MPs have come under fire for making barbed comments about queer people – Ian Paisley Jr said in 2005 that he was “repulsed” by homosexuality, while Sammy Wilson said people with AIDS were sick because of their “lifestyle choices”.

In Stormont, the DUP has done everything in its power to stop LGBTQ+ people from winning equality. The party repeatedly blocked same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland using a mechanism agreed upon under the Good Friday Agreement known as the “petition of concern”. Same-sex marriage eventually came to Northern Ireland when power sharing collapsed, paving the way for Westminster to vote in its favor instead – but that victory still didn’t lead to the DUP abandoning its anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.

There was a small glimmer of hope that the DUP could be open to change in 2021 when Paula Bradley, the DUP’s deputy leader, apologized for past remarks made by her party colleagues about LGBTQ+ people.

 
Paula Bradley DUP
DUP deputy leader Paula Bradley apologised for comments made by her party colleagues about the LGBT+ community. (PAUL FAITH/AFP via Getty)

Speaking at a PinkNews reception, Bradley admitted that some of the comments made by DUP representatives had been “absolutely atrocious” and that they had “fed into the hatred” endured by LGBTQ+ people.

The apology was warmly welcomed by LGBTQ+ campaigners, but the community has little reason to believe that the DUP has any intention of seriously reckoning with its past and changing the course of its future. Many of the party’s representatives continue to speak out against advancements in LGBTQ+ rights, with conversion therapy becoming a sticking point for some MLAs and MPs.

 

Sinn Féin has adapted – and its leaders are strong supporters of LGBTQ+ rights

While the DUP continues to linger in the past, Sinn Féin has been quick to adapt when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. The party, which has been in operation for more than a century, has gradually moved towards strong support for the LGBTQ+ community.

In 2012, Sinn Féin formally supported same-sex marriage and, in 2015, it was the only party in Northern Ireland to support for trans people in its party manifesto.

 
 

In 2021, Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald told the PinkNews Belfast Summer Reception that trans people deserve proper healthcare all across the island of Ireland. She also used her platform to criticise the UK’s Gender Recognition Act (GRA), saying it “others people in a way that is cruel”.

That’s not to say Sinn Féin is totally in the clear when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights – in 2020, there was some controversy in the Republic of Ireland when it emerged that elected representative Brian Stanley had tweeted “insensitive” remarks about Leo Varadkar, who is gay.

One Sinn Féin member, Iósaf Ó Muirí, told the Belfast Telegraph at the time that he had left the party because it had “failed to take robust action on racism, homophobia and bigotry”.

Still, the prospect of a Sinn Féin first minister is a much better one for LGBTQ+ people. Sinn Féin is much more likely to support the community and to aid and assist in championing advancements in LGBTQ+ rights.

That’s important because there is still a great deal of work to be done in Northern Ireland to make life better for LGBTQ+ people. Trans healthcare is in a state of disarray in the region, and conversion therapy is still being practiced legally – although the Stormont government has promised to outlaw the practice and legislation is currently being drafted.

It’s not yet entirely clear just how significant a Sinn Féin victory would be for Northern Ireland’s LGBTQ+ community, but at the very least, it would show queer people that they have a leader who supports their right to equality.

Biden warns LGBTQ+ children could be next target of Republican ‘Maga crowd’

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/04/biden-lgbtq-children-next-target-maga-crowd

President warns of new attacks by Trump-dominated political party after supreme court ruling draft leak on abortion

President Joe Biden speaks during an event at the Roosevelt Room of the White House on May 4, 2022 in Washington, DC. President Biden delivered remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction.
Joe Biden delivered remarks on economic growth, jobs, and deficit reduction at the Roosevelt Room on Wednesday. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images
 

Joe Biden has warned of new attacks on civil rights as the supreme court prepares to strike down the right to abortion, telling reporters at the White House that LGBTQ+ children could be the next targets of a Trump-dominated Republican party he called “this Maga crowd” and “the most extreme political organization … in recent American history”.

 
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“What happens,” the president asked, if “a state changes the law saying that children who are LGBTQ can’t be in classrooms with other children? Is that legit under the way the decision is written?”

Biden’s remarks, at the end of a brief session on deficit reduction, referred to a leaked draft of a ruling by Justice Samuel Alito. One of six conservatives on the supreme court, Alito was writing on a Mississippi case which aims to overturn both Roe v Wade, the 1973 ruling which guaranteed the right to abortion, and Casey v Planned Parenthood from 1992, which buttressed it.

The Mississippi case is expected to be resolved in June. The leak of the draft ruling to Politico, which reported that four other conservatives on the nine-justice court supported it, caused a storm of controversy and anger.

In a statement and remarks on Tuesday, Biden condemned Alito’s reasoning and intentions and called for legislation to codify Roe into law.

But the president has faced criticism within his own party for seeming reluctant to contemplate reform such legislation would require, namely abolishing the Senate filibuster, the rule that requires 60 votes for most bills to pass.

A lifelong Catholic who nonetheless supports a woman’s right to choose, Biden has been eclipsed as a strong voice against the attack on abortion rights by high-profile Democratic women including the Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who spoke angrily outside the court on Tuesday, and the vice-president, Kamala Harris.

Harris’s struggles as vice-president have been widely reported but on Tuesday night, speaking to the Emily’s List advocacy group in Washington, she seemed to hit her stride.

The former prosecutor and California senator said: “Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women. Well, we say, ‘How dare they?’

“How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they? How dare they try to stop her from determining her own future? How dare they try to deny women their rights and their freedoms?’”

She asked: “Which party wants to expand our rights? And which party wants to restrict them? It has never been more clear. Which party wants to lead us forward? And which party wants to push us back? You know, some Republican leaders, they want to take us back to a time before Roe v Wade.”

At the White House on Wednesday, Biden took brief questions. He was asked about sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine and about “the next step on abortion once this case gets settled”.

“As I said when this hit, as I was getting on the plane to go down to Alabama, this is about a lot more than abortion,” he said. “I hadn’t read the whole opinion at that time.”

The 79-year-old president then gave a lengthy, somewhat rambling answer about “the debate with Robert Bork”. Bork was nominated to the supreme court by Ronald Reagan in 1987. Biden was then chair of the Senate judiciary committee. The nomination failed.

 
The supreme court justices in April last year.
US supreme court justices on abortion – what they’ve said and how they’ve voted
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At the White House, Biden said Bork “believed the only reason you had any inherent rights was because the government gave them to you”, a stance with which Biden said he disagreed.

Biden also said Bork had opposed Griswold v Connecticut, the 1965 case which established the right to contraception – a right many on the left fear may be left open to rightwing attack once Roe, another case concerning privacy, has been overturned.

In her speech the previous night, Harris said: “At its core, Roe recognizes the fundamental right to privacy. Think about that for a minute. When the right to privacy is attacked, anyone in our country may face a future where the government can interfere in their personal decisions. Not just women. Anyone.”

The vice-president also said: “Let us fight for our country and for the principles upon which it was founded, and let us fight with everything we have got.”

Nancy Pelosi Hoping Americans Have A Short-Term Memory

Nancy Pelosi likes Republicans more than Democrats. Jessica Burbank breaks it down. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!

Stefanik Lies: I Never Promoted Replacement Theory

Stefanik Lies: I Never Promoted Replacement Theory

From the office of Rep. Elise Stefanik:

Any implication or attempt to blame the heinous shooting in Buffalo on the Congresswoman is a new disgusting low for the Left, their Never Trump allies, and the sycophant stenographers in the media. The shooting was an act of evil and the criminal should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Despite sickening and false reporting, the Congresswoman has never advocated for any racist position or made a racist statement.

The Washington Post reports:

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the No. 3 House Republican, and other GOP lawmakers came under scrutiny Sunday for previously echoing the racist “great replacement” theory that apparently inspired an 18-year-old who allegedly killed 10 people while targeting Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo.

A series of Facebook ads published in September 2021 by Stefanik’s campaign committee that charged that Democrats were allowing undocumented immigrants into the United States as a ploy to outnumber, and eventually silence, Republican voters.

“Radical Democrats are planning their most aggressive move yet: a PERMANENT ELECTION INSURRECTION,” reads one of the ads, which shows a reflection of migrants in sunglasses Biden is wearing. “Their plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants will overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.”