It was recently unearthed that MAGA Republican Senate Candidate for Georgia Herschel Walker has been plagiarizing a speech from late Civil Rights Leader John Lewis. Meidas Contributor Texas Paul reacts to the disgusting act.
Nancy Pelosi told a weekend morning show that Trump was too much of a coward and ‘not man enough’ to show up for the deposition the January 6 Committee subpoenaed him for.
In FBI field offices across the country, many agents are expressing their frustration and sadness about having to arrest and prosecute Capitol Rioters. Apparently plenty of them sympathize with the cause of these rioters, showing that they are clearly unfit to serve in a government institution. These feelings were revealed in emails this past week, and Farron Cousins explains what this tells us about the culture at the agency.
Multiple incidents of possible voter intimidation have been reported this week, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors released a statement saying they will do anything to ensure a fair election.
Sheriff’s deputies were called to an incident Friday night at a ballot box in Mesa and said two individuals wearing tactical gear were armed. On Saturday night, there was a group of four people watching the ballot box in Mesa, and two were armed with concealed handguns.
There was a confrontation that resulted from the group being there. An activist watching the watchers said they were covering their license plates with pieces of cloth, and when she tried to take a picture of the license plates, she was grabbed and chased by one of the group members.
New photos from election officials show the 2 armed individuals outside AZ drop box Fri
“Uninformed vigilantes outside Maricopa County's drop boxes are not increasing election integrity. Instead they are leading to voter intimidation complaints” said @billgatesaz@stephen_richerpic.twitter.com/dvNPwfuxIV
🚨ALERT: Arizona secretary of state's office refers 2 additional reports of voter intimidation to the Department of Justice. This brings the total to 3 reports of intimidation, all in Maricopa County involving vigilante "monitors" at drop boxes.https://t.co/zVSd7BM3k9
— Mark Finchem #JustFollowTheLaw VoteFinchem.com (@RealMarkFinchem) October 21, 2022
Trump’s legacy & Garland’s test: “Days after Maricopa County officials warned people to stop taking photos of voters and election staffers at ballot drop boxes, the Arizona Secretary of State's Office continues to refer complaints to the DoJ” https://t.co/fbOD6SOiux
Nothing screams “election integrity” like armed vigilantes with concealed license plates taking it on themselves to patrol drop boxes and polling places.
Straight up intimidation. Congrats, MAGA; you’ve entered the Cagoulard phase and you’re about to level up to being the American Tonton Macoute. https://t.co/rUPS9htlYS
Judge Raymond Dearie, the special master in the documents case, went after Donald Trump and his legal team this week, effectively letting them know that he has run out of patience with them. What set him off is the fact that the Trump Team is trying to claim privilege for documents that couldn’t even remotely be considered privilege, and the lawyers are unable to even explain WHY they are claiming privilege. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.
Republicans will do absolutely nothing to go after rapists, nor traffickers, nor abusers, nor predators, nor guns, nor violence towards women, nor violence towards children/students because they support white patriarchal controls.
In their world, white men must control all, without any criticism, without any compromise, all while claiming to being a victim.
There has never been a recorded verified case of a trans person attacking or harming anyone in a bathroom or locker room. But there are many cases of trans people being attacked and harmed trying to simply use a bathroom. Even cis women have been assaulted by vigilantes when trying to use the bathroom because they did not look female enough for the self-appointed bathroom police. This is not about protecting kids from sexualization, knowing that gay / trans people / same sex couples exist is not sexualizing kids any more than letting them know that straight people / straight couples exist does. Talking about the issues of gay / trans kids really means the right wing haters don’t want anti-bullying promoted and talked about. That is what that means, a teacher cannot stand up for a bullied kid by talking of acceptance and tolerance without breaking that law. The entire law is meant to revert the country to a more restrictive time when the LGBTQ+ were not seen in society, were villains and bad people, a time when equality for the LGBTQ+ was not an issue so the hateful bigots could attack / harass the minorities as much as they wanted. Tell me how kids knowing teacher A is in a same sex marriage is dangerous or sexualizing kids any more than the kids knowing teacher B is in an opposite marriage. It doesn’t, but to some people one of those is a horrible sin and shouldn’t be allowed, forcing their incorrect regressive views on everyone. If Tommy dates girl A it is fine and not sexualizing kids, but if Tommy dates boy B it is a crime for it to be known or talked about in school because of protecting the kids? From what? Understand what this law is about. It is about doing what was done in Russia, driving the LGBTQ+ out of society and destroying any acceptance / tolerance that have been earned and gained. It is about making the LGBTQ+ illegal and removing all our rights. They want us gone. Starting with the kids makes it seem sort of reasonable, but in truth it is the younger generation that was driving the acceptance of the LGBTQ+ because they were friends with known LGBTQ+ people. Stop that acceptance by making the LGBTQ+ stay hidden and we go back to when no one knew that their friends, doctors, a lot of other people in their lives were members of the LGBTQ+ community. Hugs
In a state that already has a Don’t Say Gay law, the rules just got even tougher.
The Florida Board of Education has approved new rules that will make life harder for LGBTQ people and allies.
One of the rules requires schools to post on their websites and notify parents by mail if they allow students to use bathrooms and locker rooms in accordance with their gender identity rather than their sex assigned at birth.
In a statement, Equality Florida’s Senior Political Director Joe Saunders called this policy an “attempt to bully and intimidate school districts that are providing these accommodations.”
“The Board of Education’s facilities separation rule does not and cannot prevent transgender students from accessing facilities aligned with their gender identity — we know Federal law and the constitution protect these rights,” Saunders said.
“Florida school districts have been following federal law for more than a decade, establishing policies we know will continue to work long after this politically-motivated proposed rule…[Gov.] Ron DeSantis’ war on transgender Floridians must end. All students deserve access to school facilities that are inclusive and safe.”
In the wake of the 2020 Supreme Court decision in Bostock v. Clayton County that outlawed anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the workplace, President Joe Biden signed two executive orders that said federal agencies should “fully implement” the decision by applying the reasoning that anti-LGBTQ discrimination inherently involves sex discrimination. His order included the Department of Education, meaning it has become a violation of federal law for schools to discriminate against trans students.
But the new policy from the Board doesn’t direct schools not to follow the law. It just makes them have to jump through more hoops to do so and also potentially puts them in the crossfire of angry parents who won’t support inclusive policies.
The second new rule instituted by the Board of Education is in relation to the state’s Don’t Say Gay Law, which prevents teachers from mentioning LGBTQ people in elementary schools.
The rule takes the law a step further by directly punishing teachers who violate it. It says any K-3 teacher who is found to have taught their students about LGBTQ issues can have their licenses suspended or revoked.
According to Equality Florida, the rule contradicts a recent ruling on the Don’t Say Gay law that found violations are the responsibility of the school district and not individual teachers.
“The Board of Education’s move to target individual teachers’ jobs and licenses is another cruel attack from an administration that has spent months punching down at Florida’s LGBTQ youth and families,” Saunders said. “Qualified, effective teachers are fleeing the profession in Florida thanks to the constant politicization of their roles and discrediting of their characters by the DeSantis Administration.”
“Rather than help to clarify the Don’t Say LGBTQ laws scope, the Board of Education has taken this bigoted law to yet another extreme, threatening teachers if they dare to acknowledge LGBTQ families in the classroom. This escalation in deference to the far right agenda of the governor makes our schools less inclusive – and less safe.”
The chairman of the State Board of Education, Tom Grady, defended the rule, stating, “It’s parental notification. It’s not mandating what a particular bathroom looks like or doesn’t look like or who can use it. It’s about parental notification.”
Drag shows are not sexual. Drag shows are cosplay. It is dress up, a lot of the time over top dress up. It has no sexual orientation to it, and just because a person does drag doesn’t mean they are trans. Look at the history of vaudeville and TV shows from the earliest days to the 1990s. Ever see Bosom Buddies, a show about two guys dressing as women to live in a rent controlled building that is female only. It was a sitcom, but there was no outrage about those men in a woman’s space. Why now with trans girls? Because the right wing managed to equate trans girls with sexual predation, with sexual misconduct. The right wing needed a boogieman and used the group they already hate, the LGBTQ+. The same with drag shows. They are not really a part of the LGBTQ+ community because unless it is designed to be burlesque show which is sexy and done with both real women with some times drag. But burlesque is not drag shows. Again the right has taken a normal word that means one thing and created an image around it so every time it is mentioned the base thinks the worst thing possible. That was their goal against CRT and it worked. Now they are doing it with drag shows. We must not let them weaponize the language this way. This is a small gang of religious bigots who are managing to get their own way and hurt the entire LGBTQ+ community and we need everyone to stand up to them. Now every day I read one to three stories of clergy raping / molesting kids. Every day! But I have yet to read one of a molestation happening at a drag queen story hour or a family friendly drag show. Hugs
“We have successfully frozen their brand—’critical race theory’—into the public conversation and are steadily driving up negative perceptions. We will eventually turn it toxic, as we put all of the various cultural insanities under that brand category,” Rufo wrote. “The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think ‘critical race theory.’ We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.” Right wing activist Christopher Rufo
Now the story from Joe.My.God
“Just like cancer, stopping it is not a gentle or a painless process. The farther along the cancer is, the more aggressive you have to be in fighting it.
“Culturally, we are approaching, if we haven’t already reached, a terminal state, which means we have to be all the more aggressive, which calls for two things.
“First, obviously involving children in drag events in any capacity should be outright criminalized everywhere. There is no other way.
“You know, this doesn’t stop until police are breaking down the doors at these places and carting the adults away in handcuffs.
“Charge them all as pedophiles. Throw them in prison, and whenever they get out, if they do get out, put them on the sex offender registry for life.” – Daily Wire host Matt Walsh.
Walsh last appeared on JMG when he declared that Disney’s black mermaid is “unscientific.”
The previous month he appeared here when he blamed the Buffalo mass shooting on pandemic lockdowns.
Earlier this year, we heard from him when he declared that lesbians will cease to exist over the next 30 years.
Before that, he appeared here when he called for banning adoption by LGBT people. And before that, he appeared here when he called for dissolving the United States.
Walsh also claims that shooting people “is not against the law.” Walsh has declared that “everybody would be happier” if arranged marriages were mandatory.
There’s no sex involved, asswipe. It’s Dress-Up and Story Time. Kids understand Dress-Up.
Mine too. And well done choreography to that music. They don’t make cartoons like that anymore. Boomerang is a great channel where you can still watch them – including the really old Bugs Bunny and other WB cartoons.”A Corny Concerto” was awesome.
Between this, Twitter’s refusal to suspend Chaya Raichik and Lara Logan’s Blood Libel, we’re at the point where genocidal hate speech is becoming normalized and mainstreamed.
Keep in mind, this douche nozzle also claimed in a tweet that gays have destroyed the institution of marriage more than anyone while admitting he’s been married three times (in this same tweet). 🙄
“Charge them all as pedophiles.” Luckily in America we don’t criminally charge people “as” or for “being” anything. Criminal charges come from doing things. When people leave out exactly someone needs to be charged for doing, you know it’s a smear job.
They are like bears that found some mayonnaise at the dump…..
Despite its nonpartisan claims, One More Mission is funded by a group led by some of the most prominent pro-Trump election deniers in the country.
Will Sommer
Politics Reporter
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty
A conservative group led by former Trump national security adviser and election denier Michael Flynn is trying to recruit thousands of police officers to work as poll monitors on Election Day—and reaching out to QAnon conspiracy theorists to aid in its recruitment effort.
Dubbed “One More Mission,” the group bills itself as a nonpartisan effort to recruit military veterans, as well as police officers and other emergency workers, to monitor polls in an effort to “defend our Constitutional right to vote.”
“Our team wanted to find an apolitical solution, a business solution, if you will,” a man in one recruitment video says.
One More Mission’s promotional materials argue that police and veterans are the most trusted figures in the United States and that they should therefore be used to certify to the public that elections are legitimate. In a late September press release announcing its launch, the group claimed to be a politically independent solution to fears of voter fraud.
“This is just an opportunity for those guys to continue the mission in protecting the integrity of our Constitution,” Travis Wilson, a former Green Beret turned supplement company owner who also works with One More Mission, told The Daily Beast.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, a spokeswoman for One More Mission initially said she wasn’t sure who funded the organization. In reality, despite its claims to be nonpartisan, One More Mission is funded by another group led by some of the most prominent pro-Trump election deniers in the country. In a single sentence on its website, One More Mission reveals that it’s funded by the America Project, a group of people convinced the 2020 election was stolen that is led by Flynn, his brother Joseph, and millionaire former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne.
The America Project has spent millions of dollars on conservative election efforts, many of them aimed at promoting “election integrity.” Now with One More Mission, the group aims to recruit tens of thousands more poll watchers with military and police experience, according to a video Byrne posted online.
In his interview with The Daily Beast, Wilson spoke vaguely about concerns about the election being stolen but declined to name specific instances of fraud in 2020.
‘That, I’m not going to get into,” Wilson said.
Instead, he cited videos of Kari Lake, the Republican candidate for Arizona governor who has promoted false claims of election theft.
But Byrne has no such compunctions. He wrote a book about his election-fraud theories, filled with details about how he believes nefarious forces he calls “goons” stole the election from Donald Trump. In the final days of the Trump presidency, Byrne attended a White House meeting with Flynn and others in which some participants pushed for Trump to declare martial law or use the military to seize ballots.
Byrne didn’t respond to a request for comment.
One More Mission’s website doesn’t mention Byrne or Flynn, instead highlighting members of the group with law enforcement and military backgrounds. But on the fringes of the QAnon conspiracy theorist media ecosystem, Byrne has been on a campaign of his own to recruit police officers and veterans from a conspiracy theory movement premised on the idea that Trump will someday institute a fascist purge and imprison his enemies.
In a late September appearance on the QAnon show “Patriot Streetfighter,” Byrne made clear his support for One More Mission was premised on the idea that the 2020 election was stolen. Byrne said the group had already received interest from roughly 1,000 people just days after its launch.
“We’re living through a psy-op,” Byrne said, explaining his belief that election fraud is part of a “psychological operation” to destroy the United States.
Later in the promotional appearance for One More Mission, Byrne agreed with his pro-QAnon host’s claim that a sinister “cabal” is smuggling murderers and rapists into the United States.
Whatever One More Mission’s purpose in recruiting its poll watchers, it’s clear that Republicans have had trouble with the credibility of some of their earlier star election-fraud witnesses. Mellissa Carone, a purported witness championed by Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, was revealed to have a criminal past and saw her offbeat demeanor mocked on Saturday Night Live. In court filings, former Trump campaign lawyer Sidney Powell cited an election-fraud expert who was later revealed to be overstating his military background.
Amateur election-fraud hunting efforts have already sparked at least one law enforcement investigation. Earlier this week, Arizona’s secretary of state referred a complaint to the Justice Department about a group of people following a person who dropped off a ballot.
One More Mission’s backers insist that the group isn’t promoting violence or the carrying of guns around election sites. In interviews with QAnon figures about the group, Byrne mentions that poll monitors must be peaceful.
“We’re not going to be bouncers or security guards,” Wilson said. “We’re not going to be standing there like thugs.”
Some of the group’s promotional videos, though, are more aggressive. One describes the organization as issuing a “call to arms” and shows what appear to be World War II-era newsreels of soldiers marching and planes dropping bombs.
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