Politico reports:
Dozens of wealthy candidates run for Congress every election cycle. What sets Cory Mills apart are some of the mileposts on his road to riches: Selling tear gas that was used against Black Lives Matter demonstrators and purchasing a company that sold rubber bullets to Hong Kong to crack down on protesters.
Mills, a first-time Republican candidate running in a competitive primary in Florida’s 7th district, is the co-founder of PACEM Solutions. The company sells arms and riot-control gear and provides law enforcement training and private security consulting in the U.S. and around the world.
PACEM Solutions has estimated annual sales of $13.5 million, according to Dun & Bradstreet, a business data and analytics firm. Mills is funding his own run for Congress mostly with money he earned through the company.
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Charlie Kirk claims tall buildings make people liberal
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CHARLIE KIRK (TPUSA PRESIDENT): We have a huge housing crisis in our country, the likes of which we have not seen in a long period of time. But, I believe we need to build horizontally, not vertically. It’s one of my speeches. Developers don’t like it when I say this, but it’s true. The higher the building, the more liberal the voter. It just is.
So, and – if you are – the closer to the ground you are, the more conservative you are. We should encourage people to spread horizontally and not vertically. Look at Denver. The higher the high rises, has Denver become less free or more free? It’s become a dystopian nightmare. You guys know that.
Now, you could say, Charlie, that’s a correlation, not a causation. Think about it. If you’re on the 32nd floor renting, not owning – if you’re not in the weeds and in the yard, understanding what it takes to grow food and maintain the land, are you going to be more or less likely to actually be a conservative? The higher the building, every single study shows, they become more liberal over time. It’s happening in Phoenix, happened in Denver, happened in Atlanta, happened in Dallas, happened in Chicago, happened everywhere, and yet few people actually say that out loud. Whatever.
VIRAL VIDEO: Gay MO Rep Rages At GOP Author Of Anti-Trans Bill: “I Grew Up Afraid Of People Like You”
The Springfield News-Leader reports:
Local school districts in Missouri would be able to call elections on whether to ban transgender athletes from youth sports under a bill given initial approval by the House on Wednesday evening. A bill originally designed to audit the state’s voter rolls and tweak elections laws was amended by Rep. Chuck Basye, a Rocheport Republican, to include the language.
The chamber approved the amendment by an 89-40 vote after almost three hours of fierce and emotional debate. Democrats called the measure discriminatory and designed to invoke fear. “I was afraid of people like you growing up and I grew up in Hickory County, Missouri,” Rep. Ian Mackey, a St. Louis Democrat who is openly gay, said to Basye. “I grew up in a school district that would vote tomorrow to put this in place.”
The Advocate reports:
“Your brother wanted to tell you he was gay, didn’t he?” Mackey asked him. Basye said he did and his brother thought their family would hold it against him. “Why would he think that?” Mackey asked.
“I don’t know,” replied Basye. The GOP representative said, “that was never going to happen.”
Mackey said, “I would have been afraid to tell you too. I would have been afraid to tell you to because of stuff like this because this is what you’re focused on. This is the legislation you want to put forward.”
The exchange has gone wildly viral on TikTok.
Watch and enjoy the smoke.
And they want us to have that fear again.
That’s the point. The man in Florida who introduced the “Don’t Say Gay” bill admitted it out loud.
That hit me hard
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- It did the same to me. I remember all my growing up years and into my early twenties living with that fear that generated such shame within me. I still hear, especially from religious bigots and know-nothings, that we are all born heterosexual like God wants us to be. However, some of us turn away from God and follow Satan into choosing to be homosexual. The fact that I would hear repeatedly that God hated me along with the world around me, was a horrible fear inducing and shame producing thing. I carried that around for so many years until I grew up to the point that I told myself to fuck it all. To this day, I still feel a bit of that well entrenched fear when I decide to tell some friend that I’m gay. Funny thing, at least to me, is that most have already figured that out and remained my friends.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she won’t resign and is ‘rather puzzled’ by reports that she’s mentally unfit to serve
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat of California, speaks during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Oliver Contreras/The Washington Post via AP, Pool
- 88-year-old Sen. Dianne Feinstein says she won’t resign, despite concerns about her mental fitness.
- “I’m rather puzzled by all of this,” Feinstein told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Even fellow Democrats have begun to privately express concerns about whether she can do her job.
Following a report from the San Francisco Chronicle that raised fresh concerns about Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s mental fitness, the 88-year-old California Democrat indicated that she’s not going anywhere.
“I meet regularly with leaders,” she told the Chronicle’s editorial board on Thursday. “I’m not isolated. I see people. My attendance is good. I put in the hours. We represent a huge state. And so I’m rather puzzled by all of this.”
The Chronicle reported that four of her Senate colleagues, including three Democrats, said they believe the senator’s memory is rapidly deteriorating.
A House Democrat from California also anonymously told the Chronicle that they had to reintroduce themselves to Feinstein several times during a recent hours-long policy discussion, prompting that member to begin raising concerns to fellow colleagues and see if Feinstein could be convinced to resign.
“It shouldn’t end this way for her. She deserves better,” the California Democrat told the Chronicle. “Those who think that they are serving her or honoring her by sweeping all of this under the rug are doing her an enormous disservice.”
Feinstein admitted to not recognizing the colleague on Thursday, but blamed the lapse on stress caused by the prolonged illness of her late husband, Richard Blum, who died in February.
“I’ve had a rough year. A cancer death doesn’t come fast,” she said. “And this is the second husband I’ve lost to cancer.”
But fellow lawmakers contended that her condition is only worsening.
“I have worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago: always in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn’t resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea,” the lawmaker told the Chronicle. “All of that is gone.”
“She was an intellectual and political force not that long ago, and that’s why my encounter with her was so jarring,” the lawmaker added. “Because there was just no trace of that.”
“It’s bad, and it’s getting worse,” a Democratic senator anonymously told the Chronicle.
“There’s a joke on the Hill, we’ve got a great junior senator in Alex Padilla and an experienced staff in Feinstein’s office,” one staffer working for a California Democrat told the Chronicle.
Feinstein, the oldest member of the Senate, has previously been the subject of concerns about her mental acuity. After facing criticism for her handling of the Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a report from the New Yorker in December 2020 raised similar concerns.
According to that report, then-Minority Leader Chuck Schumer installed his own aide on the Judiciary Committee, which Feinstein chaired at the time, to serve as his “eyes and ears” on her.
Feinstein stepped down as chair of the committee in November 2020.
It should be noted that she has already filed to run again for another term. 88 years old, failing mental ability to age alone would be understandable but she clearly has something else going on. Not to be one sided 88 year old Chuck Grassley is also running for another 6 year term. Doesn’t the US have younger people that want to use their time to make a fortune and gain power pretending to serve the people? We are so at a loss for politicians we must press 88 year old’s into keeping their aged hands into the power trough. What a sad situation. Our founding fathers pictured a civilian political system, people would serve a term or two then go home. Maybe even come back later to do another term. The last thing they wanted was a full-time political class that enriches themselves at public expense.
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