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Furious Texas Paul REACTS to Kevin McCarthy’s latest humiliating press conference
Let’s talk about the wages of freedom….
GOP Maryland AG Nominee: 9/11 Was An “Inside Job”
This is what the republican party is now. Conspiracy nuts, Qanon followers, religious fanatics, white supremacist racist bigots, and maga cult members. These used to be fringe candidates if they were not simply ignored outright. Now they are supported, funded, and put on ballots. And in a lot of places they are winning. Scary that if elected these people will be making our laws. Hugs
CNN reports:
The Republican Party’s nominee for Maryland attorney general hosted a series of five radio shows in 2006 devoted to arguing in support of 9/11 conspiracy theories questioning if the terror attack was the work of an “elite bureaucrat” who had demolition charges in every building in New York City.
Michael Peroutka, a candidate best known for his ties to neo-Confederate organizations, made the remarks on The American View, a radio show he co-hosted, in October 2006 while discussing the fifth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack, even suggesting if those who died after a hijacked plane hit the Pentagon were killed elsewhere.
Read the full article.
In the above-linked piece, you can hear audio of Peroutka claiming, “You can’t have an explosion in the basement that’s done by the hijacker on the airplane,” which, he claims, proves that the attack was an “inside job.”
Peroutka, a former board member of the neo-Confederate League of the South, has appeared a JMG over a dozen times in the last decade for anti-gay and racist stunts, most recently when he headlined a rally for anti-gay Kentucky clerk Kim Davis.
The League of the South is best known for burning the Israeli flag, making Hitler salutes, and calling the Holocaust the “Holohoax.”
You may also recall that the League Of The South recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of the assassination of “tyrant” Abraham Lincoln and provided the signage for anti-gay rallies in Alabama.
Peroutka was the largest financial backer of now-former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore’s successful campaign to be returned to the bench.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 • 43 minutes ago
The Republican party has become the party of drunk Uncle Ernie, who doesn’t get invited to family reunions anymore, because he scares the kids and breaks things.
I’m surprised he didn’t say that it was a Jewish conspiracy. Why did he hold back?
The one I’ve heard is that all the Jewish people working in the towers had ‘called in sick’ that day. Ridiculous and enraging, but people do believe this.
I’m guessing he thought “bureaucrat” was enough of a dog whistle.
Is a person required to be insane to run on the Republican ticket?
Ore Carmi Dave B • 32 minutes ago
I mean, when you consider that they already need to be heartless, hypocritical, gaslighting sadists, it’s really not asking for much more!
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • 35 minutes ago
Michael Peroutka, a candidate best known for his ties to neo-Confederate organizations
He sounds like a QAnon. There’s very little daylight between their beliefs and the beliefs of today’s Nazis and neo-Confederates. Frankly it’s a white supremacist spectrum that encompasses a lot of people in this country. The ability to attract new believers among uneducated whites is becoming greater and greater due to the Internet and disinformation spread by organized secret societies.
9/11 trutherism has no basis of reality whatsoever. Michael Peroutka is living in la-la land by believing this trash.
We have a collapsing system where the worst among us are awarded with riches, which just accelerates our downward spiral.
OK Schools Now Requiring “Biological Sex” Affidavits
If you go to the web site of the story you can see a blown up picture of the one in the tweet with him at the desk surrounded by girls. Notice the two little girls with signs who look like they cannot believe they had to come and do this cosplay. Hugs
Changing America reports:
Student athletes at Oklahoma public schools are now required to complete “biological sex affidavits” to determine whether they are eligible to participate in athletics as school districts begin enforcing a state law.
In March, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) signed into law the state’s “Save Women’s Sports Act,” which requires sports teams through college to be designated based on athletes’ “biological sex,” or sex assigned at birth.
In early July, the CBS-affiliate KOAM-TV reported that some school districts were beginning to distribute “biological sex affidavits” to student athletes to enforce the law.
Read the full article.
In my 55 years on earth, I dont remember Republicans giving a crap about woman’s sports. I guess it took transgendered athletes to finally make them care.
Random Observer Ed Michigan • 13 minutes ago
This. My couldn’t-care-less-about-any-sports in the 30 years I’ve known him BIL (more an outdoor / photography / camping guy) suddenly started protesting to “save women’s sports” last year. The biggest farce I’ve ever seen – it was clear GQP talking points..
JW Swift Ed Michigan • an hour ago
It’s not like they’re going to support or even watch, though.
Shadow Catcher Ed Michigan • 37 minutes ago
They still do not care, the number of athletes involved is something like .000001%
i’ll bet that banning women from women’s sports measure doesn’t include any additional funding for women’s sports, however.
they don’t give a fuck about women’s sports and only care about hurting trans people.
Snarkaholic alguien • 35 minutes ago
In most high schools, 99.999% of funds go to the football team.
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow j.martindale • 2 hours ago
Yep…if they can’t take on the adults, they decide to torment the kids.
If this disqualifies someone from team sports, at least they won’t have to participate in public prayers at the 50-yard line. Always look on the bright side of life?
Are they going to do genetic testing for every child to confirm it? Are they going to pay for it? Isn’t there a HIPAA thing or is that out in Oklahoma?
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 Paula • 2 hours ago
If they do genetic testing, they’re going to find there’s a lot more diversity in genetic sex than allowed for in their magic book of myths.
Meet John Doe Paula • 2 hours ago
Maybe they’ll have everyone strip naked to check what’s under the hood.
Meet John Doe Steven in TX 🏳️🌈 ISOLATION • an hour ago
After all the coverage of Lauren Hubbard, a trans woman weightlifter competing in the Olympics, she didn’t make a single lift when she’s in her prime age as a weightlifter and got clobbered by Li Wenwen, a 21 year old Chinese lifter who won her weight class (over 81 kg) on her first lift. She’s really a kid in the grand scheme of weightlifting and unless she gets injured, can compete in another 4 Olympics. You peak in your mid 30’s.
clay Paula • 2 hours ago • edited
I’m pretty sure they went with the birth certificate as an end run around HIPAA. The birth certificate counts as state record, rather than medical record. And, no, they’re no going to pay for it.
Fetterman=BetterMan Paula • an hour ago
Please, no genetic testing.
Repigs can’t wait to find an excuse to look under high school girls’ skirts.
Sister_Bertrille • 2 hours ago
Does this mean that transmen will now be competing in women’s sports? Or is it just a way to keep transgender people from competing in any sports at all? I think we know the answer to that…
Gregory In Seattle Sister_Bertrille • 2 hours ago
The telling point is: will this apply equally to men’s sports as well? What if a high school’s star quarterback refuses to file such a document on general principles?
April Smith Gregory In Seattle • an hour ago • edited
I think it’s just girl’s sports. To them it’s all about the obsession with trans girls and women.
But some brave Transman should call their bluff. If it’s all “biological” they should be on the girl’s team and watch them dominate the competition.
Gregory In Seattle April Smith • 39 minutes ago
So the linked article is incorrect, and this will apply ONLY to (presumed) female students and not all students? That could be a problem if (presumed) male students are exempted, as that directly violates Title IX.
clay April Smith • an hour ago
According to the (incomplete) excerpt Joann Prinzivalli provided, it only applies to girls sports.
clay • 2 hours ago • edited
And how many intersex kids will be exposed, as well?
Their law doesn’t even have space for them to exist.
Intersexuality is a liberal conspiracy to let men into women’s locker rooms.
Everyone knows that! /s
April Smith Joann Prinzivalli • an hour ago • edited
They have a law on that too. Oklahoma banned the issuing of non-binary birth certificates.
It really sucks here.
Fetterman=BetterMan • an hour ago
“Save Women’s Sports Act,”
That’s rich after they deduced women to fetus incubators.
Robert Conner Fetterman=BetterMan • 22 minutes ago
Fetus incubation is what they mean by “Women’s Sports.”
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 2 hours ago
Waiting for one of these red school districts to defund/shutdown women’s sports in school and blame it on transgender students “ruining women’s sports for everyone.”
Serene Pumpkin Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 2 hours ago
An end run around Title IX, which they’ve always loathed.
Next, they will require virginity check for all girls wanting to participate in sports. We gotta’ make sure that cherry hasn’t been popped.
Atlanta Music Festival Canceled Over Open Carry Law
This is going to happen much more often. As more people are unwilling to risk being shot groups are not going to hold events, and people are not going to be willing to go to them. That part of the economy shutters to a stop due to ammosexuals needing to stroke their egos to feel the tough man over any other right or desire of anyone else to simply be safe in public. Hugs
Billboard Magazine reports:
The long-running Music Midtown festival at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, scheduled for Sept. 17-18 with headliners My Chemical Romance, Future, Jack White and Fallout Boy, has been called off.
The likely cause, industry sources tell Billboard, are recent changes to Georgia gun laws that prevent the festival from banning guns on to the publicly owned festival grounds.
Gun rights groups had been emailing and posting comments of the festival’s social media page for several months, hinting at potential legal challenges.
The Daily Beast reports:
The festival has been held at the city-owned Piedmont Park since 2011. A 2014 Georgia law allowed residents to carry guns on publicly owned land.
That right was expanded by a Georgia Supreme Court ruling in 2019 that held that businesses with short-term leases on public land (e.g., festivals) can’t supersede the statewide right to carry.
This is complicated because artists don’t usually want to perform at venues teeming with guns.
The event didn’t take place in 2020 or 2021 due to COVID.
Every artist that performs at a venue that allows guns, would spend the entire performance hoping their assassin isn’t in the audience.
Tomcat Robert Anthony • an hour ago
Same with school kids actually.
It won’t be just the artists resisting having an armed audience, but events like this always have to carry indemnity insurance, and the carriers probably all said, “Fuck no, the risk is too high.”
Tomcat PickyPecker • an hour ago
What? you don’t feel safer knowing mentally disturbed people are allowed to have the right to bring their assault weapons to events?
Serene Pumpkin kevway • an hour ago
But soon it won’t matter what laws California passes (re: guns or abortion or same-sex marriage); the Supreme Curia will simply overturn them.
“This is complicated because artists don’t usually want to perform at venues teeming with guns”
I can’t imagine why not and no, it’s not complicated.
Get used o it America It’s what your country has become The rights of a precious few dictate the policies of the masses To allow the few denies the many Its is all about the tail wagging the dog as America seems willing to let it happen
Speaking as someone in the music biz there’s no fucking way I’d work any festival/show/event with open carry allowed. I’ve seen enough violence just from unarmed people getting out of control who’d want to be there if they’ve got fucking guns??!
Fetterman=BetterMan • an hour ago
Is this the freedom the NRA keep promising?
Buford • 39 minutes ago • edited
So what happens when the NRA or GOP next holds a convention in the area, since both infamously ban guns at these events wherein they demand an end to gun restrictions….?!?!
SophieCT Buford • 34 minutes ago
They won’t use public grounds.
Buford SophieCT • 18 minutes ago
That’s sorta the point. Since they support these laws allowing firearms in public spaces, they should be forced to explain why they won’t hold their own rallies there.
Per their own logic, those should be safest places on the planet with all those guns… right?
‘Til Tuesday 👓 🌴 🩴🌞 • an hour ago
The Christian conservatives are thrilled by this – they won on guns and they won on shutting down a music festival that wasn’t Christian entertainment. I wonder if the open carry law applies to the football stadium? Because nothing goes together like armed fans who are drunk off their ass.
George K Wright ‘Til Tuesday 👓 🌴 🩴🌞 • 23 minutes ago
Public school football fields would be publicly owned. Friday Night Lights becomes Friday Night Gunfights.
‘Til Tuesday 👓 🌴 🩴🌞 • 33 minutes ago
No singer or band wants to perform behind a bullet-proof shield or have to wear bullet-proof vest. It’s not worth it. They can perform in “blue” states where sanity prevails for the most part.
For an event like the Midtown Music Festival, the sponsors have to purchase liability insurance which is very expensive as it is. When you add guns to the mix, the cost soars and/or the insurance carrier doesn’t want the financial risk of having a mass shooting where the claims would run into the millions of dollars. Stupid Republicans!!
Ya hear that music superstars… you play in these states with these crazy gun laws and you may get assassinated on stage by a crazed NRA gun toting American looking to prove his manhood because they dont like your message or music. Think that is far fetched. Have you checked the headlines lately
Cancel all concerts or its a chance you take
This is just the beginning. As people on here have posted, the number of guns in public will affect people’s decisions to attend events like this, travel on vacation, or even go to y store. That’s great for the economy. Good job Republicans.
NYT: Trump Cheated During His NJ Saudi Golf Event
The New York Times reports:
His blast from a bunker had failed to reach the green and was nestled in some nasty rough. Instead, he had his caddie pick up the ball and march to the next tee.
On another hole, when a birdie putt rolled nearly six feet past the hole, he casually scooped the ball up to end the hole, apparently conceding himself a par. Try that this weekend in your match with your usual foursome. Or any foursome.
At other times, a Trump mis-hit would simply be ignored. As if understanding the drill, his caddie would retrieve the golf ball from the sand or deep rough and walk forward.
Read the full article.
Alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell had a ‘death list’ including the name of an election official and their family. His lawyers say it’s a ‘doodle pad.’
An Oath Keeper from Idaho in Bozeman, Montana. William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images
- An alleged Oath Keeper was charged with sedition following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
- Police discovered Thomas Caldwell had a ‘death list’ that included the name of a Georgia election official.
- Caldwell’s lawyer argued the list was part of a “doodle pad” that should be excluded from evidence.
While searching alleged Oath Keeper Thomas Caldwell‘s home following the attack on the US Capitol just three days prior, police found a “death list” that included the name of a Georgia election official and their family member.
But in court documents viewed by Insider, Caldwell’s lawyer, David Fischer, argued the list is a “doodle pad.”
“From the search, law enforcement recovered a document that included the words “DEATH LIST” hand-written across the top with the name of a Georgia election official, a purported family member of that official, and the county and state associated with that official all hand-written underneath,” read the government’s motion regarding trial evidence.
The document also included hand-written notes relevant to the defendants’ preparations in advance of January 6, according to the government motion.
“This document is not a ‘list’ but, rather, a doodle pad. The words ‘death list’ are written in all caps, whereas the balance of writing on the doodle pad is written in upper and lower case letters,” read the defense’s motion to exclude the note pad evidence.
“Moreover, the words ‘death list’ are separated from the names of the election workers by scribbled writing, and were clearly written with a different pen. There are no other names on the ‘list,’ because it is not a list. Importantly, the names written on the doodle pad were not, as the Government claims, election ‘officials’ but, rather, temporary election workers.”
Fischer added that because the evidence would “highly prejudicial” to the defendant, there is “no need” for it to be introduced to a jury.
Caldwell is one of nine alleged Oath Keepers charged with seditious conspiracy following the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He is also charged with obstructing an official proceeding, destruction of government property, and unlawful entry on restricted buildings or grounds.
In its case against Caldwell, the government argues the Navy veteran — who once worked as a section chief for the FBI — holds a leadership role in the far-right anti-government militia called the Oath Keepers and was known to members as “Commander Tom.”
On January 6, Caldwell reportedly started a Facebook Live video taken from inside the Capitol building. According to charging documents, He also sent multiple Facebook messages to others reading, “We are surging forward. Doors breached” and “inside.” He described the experience as “storming the castle.”
Caldwell has denied being a member of the Oath Keepers, as well as all charges against him.
David Fischer, attorney for Caldwell, did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
Trump Illegally Uses Presidential Seal At NJ Golf Event
He does this repeatedly. He gets told it is illegal and does it anyway. It is time he face some serious punishment. He is not the president and he doesn’t get to use that seal. If you and I were to do that we would face legal trouble. Hugs
The Hill reports:
Former President Trump’s golf club in Bedminster, N.J., was spotted continuing to use the presidential seal despite an ethics complaint and federal law potentially banning its use of the seal at the venue.
Photos taken Thursday while Trump hosted an event for the LIV Golf tournament, a Saudi-backed golf league that has faced controversy in light of the Saudi government’s alleged human rights abuses, showed the seal on various items, including golf carts.
The Washington Post reports:
The seal was plastered on towels, golf carts and other items as the former president participated in the pro-am event of the Saudi-sponsored tournament Thursday. It is against federal law to use the presidential and vice-presidential seals in ways that could convey “a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States.”
While violating this law could result in imprisonment of “not more than six months,” a fine or both, these punishments are rarely doled out. Trump has faced criticism from the survivors of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and their family members for hosting the Saudi-backed golf tournament at his New Jersey resort — 50 miles from Ground Zero.
Outrage meter is barely registering on this one.
That is how normalized his disrespect for this country and its protocols has become
northalabama DaddyRay • 2 days ago
there are laws against it, the only thing it takes to stop him are people willing to stop him.
If Obama did this, it would be lead news for week. At least a month on FUX.
Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 DaddyRay • 2 days ago
The MAGAts will forgive anything, as long as he says the things they want to hear, and lets them be the worst version of themselves.
A law is only a law if it’s actually enforced and when there are consequences for breaking it.
Really fucking sick and tired of this fat clown-painted spawn of Baron Harkonnen constantly getting away with blatant crimes simply because no prosecutor feels like dealing with him.
TrollopeReader BeccaM • 2 days ago
So, we’re 25 hours in finding this out. Has DOJ ever sued a president for false seal usage?
🄿🅁🄸🅇🄰🅃🄾🅁 – 🅃🅁🄸🄿🄻🄴 🅅🄰🅇🅇🄴🄳 TrollopeReader • 2 days ago
A better question is, has any president ever had such blatant disrespect for the office and its traditions?
Because laws don’t apply to republicans
Fearsome Beard Mouse 2024 🇺🇸 • 2 days ago
Especially if they are only breaking them to promote their business and make money.
Remember when laws applied to presidents?
“It is against federal law to use the presidential and vice-presidential seals in ways that could convey “a false impression of sponsorship or approval by the Government of the United States.” Well let whoever is responsible for doling out the punishent for this get off of their ass and do it. We have had 4 years of this asshole flaunting laws and getting away with it. Enough!
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