WI GOP Rep’s Stunt Gets Election Commissioner Fired -JMG

WI GOP Rep’s Stunt Gets Election Commissioner Fired

Why is it all the verified election fraud is done by republicans. I guess this is why they know it is happening, their people are the ones doing it. Hugs

Milwaukee’s Fox affiliate reports:

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson announced Thursday, Nov. 3 that Milwaukee’s Election Commission deputy director Kimberly Zapata has been fired. This, after he says she fraudulently requested military absentee ballots and sent them to Republican state lawmaker Rep. Janel Brandtjen.

“This has every appearance of being an egregious and blatant violation of trust,” Mayor Johnson said. “I was stunned, absolutely stunned, to hear the very serious allegations against her.”

As a member of the military you don’t have to register or show an ID to vote. The city believes Zapata was trying to prove a loophole in the elections process. Last week, Rep. Janel Brandtjen shared the photo below of military ballots delivered to her home with apparently fake names.

Read the full article. Democrats are calling for criminal charges against Zapata and Brandtjen, the latter of whom appeared here in July when she called for decertifying Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election result.

The deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission fraudulently requested military absentee ballots and sent them to Republican State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a promoter of election lies.

The deputy director has been fired. https://t.co/kXZy5y6Xb2
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 3, 2022

crewman • 15 hours ago • edited

If this was a stunt to show fraud could be committed, her stunt needs to stay the course and experience the consequences of that fraud. Not a slap on the wrist or a “Oh this was just a stunt, so no charges.” No, it needs to be felony charges and jail time with penalties at maximum level to show others how the system works, which seems to be what she was after.

cfa crewman • 12 hours ago

They want to demonstrate how “easy” it is to game the system. The ONLY appropriate response is (1) show that safeguards exist and that those who try it will be caught, and (2) show that people who try to game the system will spend serious time behind bars.

Makoto • 15 hours ago

“I was just testing the officers to see if they were properly dealing with drunk drivers, so I downed a fifth of whisky and sped down the highway”

Yeah, if that wouldn’t fly in court, neither should this.

GOPeePee=GrandOld Putin’sParty • 15 hours ago

” I have been attacked by the liberal media, democrats who benefit from the system, and republicans who don’t have the backbone to take on the issues,” -State Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R )
Translation : THE LIBS MADE ME CHEAT! POOOOR ME!

House Nominee Wants Rape Victims To Appear Before “Community-Level Review” Board To Beg For Abortion

House Nominee Wants Rape Victims To Appear Before “Community-Level Review” Board To Beg For Abortion

Via press release from the DCCC:

Republican Bo Hines wants victims of rape and incest to go through “a community-level review process outside the jurisdiction of the federal government” to determine if they can get an abortion.

Hines advocated for this “death panel”-esque review process for women seeking an abortion in an interview with local TV station WRAL.

Hines has long advocated for extreme restrictions on abortion – he told the Raleigh News & Observer that “Abortion should be made illegal throughout the United States. No exceptions.”

In April, Hines called abortion the “greatest moral atrocity” and said it was a “mass genocide that occurred in our country.”

“Bo Hines would make women and girls who have already experienced horrific trauma beg for their right to get an abortion from a panel of complete strangers,” said DCCC spokesperson Monica Robinson.

“Bo Hines has demonstrated a disgusting lack of empathy for women this entire campaign. He doesn’t deserve the power to make health care decisions for us in Congress.”

DCCC: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad 16 hours ago

We already have the highest maternal death rate of first world countries.

Health experts see rise in maternal mortality post-Roe

https://www.axios.com/2022/…

Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️ • 16 hours ago

Odd, he doesn’t expect the community to decide how he uses his penis…

kaydenpat Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️ • 13 hours ago

Or his guns.

Gustav2 • 16 hours ago • edited

And that ladies and gentlemen is what they call, “Freedom!”

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊 Gustav2 • 16 hours ago

Abortion is a very personal decision, between a woman, her doctor, and a dozen or so strangers from her town.

JackFknTwist • 16 hours ago

How about a new public doctrine regarding abortions and all matters to do with sex, health and reproductive functions and decisions:
New Rule: Mind your own fucking business.

Chris Baker • 16 hours ago

Let’s have men appear before a community board and explain why they need Viagra. And they must show up with their wife and inquire as to if she is still fertile or not, because only married men should be having sex, and only for procreative purposes. They should also have to do a demonstration that they actually can’t get it up, to ensure that the medicine is for them and not for someone else.

Imagine a rape/incest victim having to tell total strangers what happened, and them questioning her. I wonder if this guy has a daughter and would present her before a committee where they question her about her rape and sexual history. No, he would send her off to her ‘aunt’s house” in NY or CA.

TallyDink Chris Baker • 16 hours ago

“I stand before this committee, requesting community approval of boner pills because….my wife got my massively jacked up pickup truck in the divorce & due to some unfortunate private discourse, I’m not eligible to own guns. So, with no other available penis extenders, I really need my boner pills. I need ’em right away, we got us a big family reunion coming up, if ya know what I mean.”

The Federalist Adopts Nazi Rhetoric Against Transgender Americans

The Federalist Adopts Nazi Rhetoric Against Transgender Americans

Thank you Ali for sending me the link in a comment. Great article. Hugs

John Daniel Davidson

The conservative “news” outlet, The Federalist, published a screed against transgender people that echoes rhetoric that German Nazis used against Jewish people in the 1930s.

The attack came in a piece entitled “We Need To Stop Calling Ourselves Conservatives,” written by John Daniel Davidson. Davidson is also the political editor for The Federalist.

Davidson’s piece refers to “the transgender question” and says, “On the transgender question, conservatives will have to repudiate utterly the cowardly position of people like David French, in whose malformed worldview Drag Queen Story Hour at a taxpayer-funded library is a ‘blessing of liberty.’”

Davidson makes a call to arms for conservatives to oppose transgender rights: “that parents who take their kids to drag shows should be arrested and charged with child abuse; that doctors who perform so-called “gender-affirming” interventions should be thrown in prison and have their medical licenses revoked; and that teachers who expose their students to sexually explicit material should not just be fired but be criminally prosecuted.”

Nazi Display On The Jewish Question In 1930s Germany

His argument is a mirror image of the Nazi world view that Jews had to be the subject of persecution, to be regarded as non-people, and ultimately to be mass murdered in a Holocaust that killed over 6 million innocent men, women, and children.

The Holocaust Encyclopedia published by the United States Holocaust Museum notes, “Once in power, the Nazi Party began taking measures to solve the ‘Jewish Question’ in Germany. First, they initiated policies and laws that transformed German Jews into second-class citizens. Then, they expelled Jews from Germany or forced them to emigrate. During World War II, Nazi Germany and its collaborators expanded this goal. They aimed to cleanse all of Europe of Jews through their forced “resettlement” in occupied Poland, the French island of Madagascar, or later occupied Soviet territory.”

Over the last few years, the conservative movement has been involved in a heated attack on the rights of transgender people in the United States.

Most recently, congressional Republicans have introduced legislation entitled “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act of 2022” that is designed to smear transgender people and undermine their rights to a peaceful life.

The Federalist was co-founded by Ben Domenech, a conservative activist who was removed from the Washington Post for plagiarism. He is married to Meghan McCain, former co-host of The View, a columnist for the right-wing Daily Mail, and the daughter of the deceased Sen. John McCain.

Oliver Willis

One of the first political bloggers in the world, Oliver Willis has operated OliverWillis.com since 2000. Contributor at Media Matters for America and The American Independent. Follow on Twitter at @owillis. Full bio.

‘You Must Use the Insurrection Act’: Oath Keepers Trial Witness Says Stewart Rhodes Asked Him to Tell Trump to Seize Power by Force

‘You Must Use the Insurrection Act’: Oath Keepers Trial Witness Says Stewart Rhodes Asked Him to Tell Trump to Seize Power by Force

A government witness in the seditious conspiracy trial of Stewart Rhodes claims the Oath Keepers leader asked him to deliver a message telling then-President Donald Trump to seize power by force.

“You must use the insurrection act and use the power of the Presidency to stop him,” Rhodes allegedly told Trump in a typewritten message entered into evidence. “And all us veterans will support you and so will the vast majority of military.”

According to the testimony, Rhodes personally entered that message into the phone of government witness Jason Alpers, a military veteran with combat and special ops experience in Iraq and Afghanistan.

He testified that Rhodes passed on the message during his meeting with the Oath Keepers leader in the parking lot of a Fry’s electronics store in Texas on Jan. 10, 2021.

Rhodes, he claims, wanted him to pass the message to Trump, knowing that Alpers had a line to the 45th president.

“Not directly but indirectly,” Alpers testified.

Alpers said that he furtively taped the meeting with a recording device — which he said resembled a thumb drive — in case he needed to pass on the message to Trump.

“I was really using it for my protection, making sure that I had an accurate account of it,” he said.

That recording, which Alpers turned over to the FBI months later, was entered into evidence and played in court. It features a lengthy discussion of the Insurrection Act, which Oath Keepers members believed would allow Trump to militarize groups like them to keep him in power.

“I mean we heard he dropped the Insurrection Act, now we’re hearing he didn’t drop it,” Rhodes said.

But Alpers apparently disagreed.

“I’m hearing he did not,” he replied.

“Okay,” Rhodes said. “So what are you hearing?”

“Uh, that he hasn’t dropped it,” Alpers continued.

After some further discussion, Alpers predicted that the Trump would not ultimately invoke it.

“I don’t think the Insurrection Act’s gonna get signed, me personally,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that I’m not gonna take what we’re talking about and provide it to the right place, ok?”

By that, Alpers continued in the tape, he meant the “head guy.”

Asked by the prosecutor who the “head guy” was, Alpers clarified: “I meant providing the message to President Trump.”

That message, allegedly relayed by Rhodes to give to Trump, was grim.

“You and your children will die in prison, and us veterans will die in combat fighting against traitors who YOU turned over all the powers of the Presidency to,” Rhodes allegedly wrote for Trump’s consumption. The message also asked the former president to arrest members of Congress.

After first invoking imagery from the Civil War, Rhodes in the message turned toward the spector of World War II: “Be a Churchill, not a Chamberlain.”

Alpers testified that he did not pass on the message because he did not agree with it.

As a veteran, Alpers said, he’s seen combat, and the recording seems to show Alpers discouraging Rhodes from pursuing that course.

“I can tell you right now I don’t wish civil war on anyone,” Alpers said on the tape.

“We’re gonna have it bud,” Rhodes replied, according to the transcript.

Asked why he pushed back against Rhodes on that point, Alpers told the prosecutor: “Asking for Civil War to be on American ground […] that means blood is going to be shed on the streets where your family’s on.”

After Alpers finished his testimony, FBI agent Jennifer Banks returned to the witness stand to analyze cell phone tower data. According to the witness, that data placed Rhodes, SoRelle and Oath Keepers member Joshua James in the Dallas area, the location of the meeting, at the time.

A former Oath Keepers member now cooperating with the government previously testified that Rhodes spoke as if he had a “direct line” to Trump. Another ex-Oath Keepers member said that Rhodes placed a call in a hotel on speaker phone after Jan. 6, asking to be connected to Trump.

[Image of Rhodes from DOJ, via Ford Fischer / News2Share; Image of Trump by Sean Rayford/Getty Images]

Tim Ryan WINS OVER Fox crowd at town hall, gets HUGE ovation

Voldemort Runs Anti-Trans Ads In Dozens Of States

Voldemort Runs Anti-Trans Ads In Dozens Of States

This man help push a police of separating children from their parents at the Southern border. He belongs to a party that has cut funding for child healthcare, food assistance programs, school meals, and any assistance program that helps kids. Now suddenly the focus on trans kids. They love the culture wars and worrying about the sexual organs / gender expression of other people. Hugs

Politico reports:

A deluge of radio spots and mailers targeting transgender children is hitting swing-state voters as part of a broad ad campaign directed by prominent Trump administration alums. Polling rarely registers transgender-related issues as a top priority for voters, with other topics like the economy and public safety taking the lead in this midterm cycle.

But America First Legal, launched by longtime Donald Trump aide Stephen Miller, has plastered airwaves and mailboxes with the issue ahead of the election — all without mentioning candidates currently running for office, as both groups are registered nonprofits.

Ads targeting transgender children have spread in at least 25 states across the political spectrum — from Texas to Illinois to Michigan — in the last month.

Read the full article.

Radio ads and mailers — which fly under the radar more than TV spots — targeting transgender kids are flooding swing states, @mar1ssamart1nez and I report: https://t.co/QThf55KgZB
— Madison Fernandez (@madfernandez616) November 2, 2022

Bungee • 4 hours ago

What the fuck. I simply cannot imagine having the time, energy, or other resources to be so vehemently opposed and oppressive toward a demographic that poses absolutely zero threat to oneself. Good grief, dude. Take up knitting or ceramics or something.

April Smith Bungee • 4 hours ago

It takes attention away from real issues.

TnCTampa • 4 hours ago • edited

Anti trans ads are all the rage in the Tampa market from Rubio. He got one he talks about boys wanting to be girls because democrats

Michael • 4 hours ago • edited

Every GOP political policy is based on hate

In Virginia, the kids are all right. https://t.co/Qc4znprziz
— John Edwin Mason (@johnedwinmason) November 2, 2022

Epic Collision Gebildet 3 hours ago

Too bad the parents are fucking nuts!

Darling of the “detransition” movement comes out again as transgender

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/11/darling-detransition-movement-comes-transgender/

I wonder if those who tried to use the movement she helped build and the other haters will continue to use her and her prior comments without mentioning she has recanted what she was preaching. Hugs

She tried to “do everything to make these feelings go away,” but the only thing that worked “was accepting them.”

By Greg Owen Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Photo: Shutterstock

Like the ex-gay movement that rose to prominence in the early 2000s and then came crashing down as leaders recanted their “conversions,” the detransition movement is showing similar signs of a crack-up.

Ky Schevers is just one of the prominent voices of the detransition movement to reconsider her choice to reject her gender evolution and publicly denounce transition. She began her transition in college but ended it after coming to the belief that gender dysphoria was a false idea caused by misogyny and trauma, a theory she shared widely in interviews and online.

Now Schevers – who is transmasculine and uses she/her pronouns – has regrets about her place in the detrans movement. From 2013 to 2020, she regularly wrote and made videos about her detransition. She was featured in several major publications – even interviewed by anti-trans journalist Katie Herzog – to promote the idea that transgender identity isn’t legitimate and that gender dysphoria was a mix of internalized sexism and trauma response for her.

But now she’s speaking out against the movement she once supported.

“Trans people deserve access to support, and it makes no sense to shut down people’s access to medical transition just because some people end up detransitioning,” she told Slate.

The number of people reporting detransition is small. According to a study this year from UCLA’s Williams Institute, 1.3 million adults in the U.S. identify as transgender, or 0.05 % of the population. Another 300,000 youth, ages 13-17, do so, as well.

Of those who transition, about eight percent report detransitioning, according to a 2015 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality, and most – 62 percent – of that eight percent said detransition was temporary. A 50-year survey in Sweden revealed about two percent of the trans population regretted undergoing gender-affirming surgery.

Schevers said the detransition movement she helped spark became overtly transphobic and repressive and left no room for doubt or questioning individuals.

While she came to believe her own gender dysphoria was in check, it came roaring back over time. “My sense of being a woman unraveled, and I was feeling more like a dude or a gender weirdo,” Schevers said. “But I was fighting against these feelings because I’d built a life in the detransition community, and I knew a lot of the other women in the community wouldn’t be happy with it if I came out as trans.”

The detrans movement assigns a variety of reasons to what they consider the false concept of gender dysphoria and provides attendant solutions to the non-existent problem.

Detrans promoters liken the urge to transition to drug or alcohol addiction, encouraging sufferers to avoid triggers and commit to abstinence, concepts adopted from 12-step programs. They characterize dysphoria as internalized misogyny stemming from a lack of self-love. One theory, known as “rapid onset gender dysphoria,” describes being transgender as a social contagion spread among adolescent girls online, like accusations of witchcraft among young women at the Salem witch trials.

Schevers says of her own dysphoria, “I tried to explain it in a radical feminist framework, and find the root causes, and do everything to make these feelings go away, and that didn’t really work. The only thing that did work to make them go away was accepting them. I had to make a move to accept them.”

Federal judge issues restraining order against group monitoring Arizona ballot boxes

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/federal-judge-issues-restraining-order-group-monitoring-arizona-ballot-rcna55170

The order prohibits members of Clean Elections USA from carrying weapons or wearing body armor within 250 feet of drop boxes.

A voter drops off a ballot in the Arizona Democratic presidential primary on March 17, 2020.Ross D. Franklin / AP file

Nov. 1, 2022, 8:50 PM PDT

By Zoë Richards

A federal judge in Phoenix issued a restraining order Tuesday night against a group that has been photographing and recording voters casting ballots at drop boxes in Arizona.

The order, issued by U.S. District Judge Michael Liburdi, prohibits Clean Elections USA from “openly” carrying weapons or “visibly wear body armor” within 250 feet of drop boxes. Liburdi’s order also bars the group’s members from taking photos, recording, following or yelling at voters within 75 feet of drop box locations.

Furthermore, he told the group’s founder, Melody Jennings, to post a message to her account on Truth Social, former President Donald Trump’s social media platform, that reads in part: “It is not always illegal to deposit multiple ballots in a ballot drop box. It is legal to deposit the ballot of a family member, household member, or person for whom you are the caregiver.”

The group and its founder were accused of “intimidation and harassment” of voters as they dropped off their ballots in Maricopa County. The lawsuit was filed by the Arizona Alliance for Retired Americans and Voto Latino.

Armed people dressed in tactical gear at the site of a ballot drop box in Mesa, Ariz., on Oct. 21.Maricopa County Elections Department / AFP – Getty Images