The Democratic Party attacked and ate their own while the Republican Party celebrated and endorsed their convicted molester and criminal authoritarian thug candidate who is demonstrably cognitively impaired. Need any more be said. One party says reality be damned we just claim what we want and threaten those who disagree, the other party worries that they may hurt their own chances and doesn’t back their candidate out of fear. Guess who will win in a war. One party doesn’t give a shit what people think, doesn’t care one bit about reality, ignores and vilifies the press, the other party cowers and tries to please every interviewer with an agenda that won’t listen to their replies. The media was desperate for a horse race, for more media clicks and interest in their posts / shows. The democrats gave in to them. The democrats caused tRump to win. Hugs. Scottie
Again republicans know that their possition on abortion is not popular and the public wants access to it. But republicans don’t care what the people want, they only want to force everyone to obey the rules they create. So they have to lie and mislead to get their way. Don’t fall for it. Hugs. Scottie
A Florida panel has approved language that will appear beneath an abortion ballot proposal in November that states the referendum will “negatively impact the state budget,” a move that reproductive rights proponents call “a dirty trick.”
The financial impact language says public funds may be required to pay for abortions, and that possible lawsuits could be costly. The statement concludes that “costs cannot be estimated with precision,” but asserts that if the amendment passes, it could be bad for growth in the state.
Last fall, the panel approved language that said the impact of Amendment 4 was “indeterminate.” Since then, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and Florida House Speaker Paul Renner (R) appointed new members to the panel who voted to change the financial statement that will be on the ballot.
The proposed amendment would result in significantly more abortions and fewer live births per year in Florida. The increase in abortions could be even greater if the amendment invalidates laws requiring parental consent before minors undergo abortions and those ensuring only licensed physicians perform abortions.
There is also uncertainty about whether the amendment will require the state to subsidize abortions with public funds. Litigation to resolve those and other uncertainties will result in additional costs to the state government and state courts that will negatively impact the state budget.
An increase in abortions may negatively affect the growth of state and local revenues over time. Because the fiscal impact of increased abortions on state and local revenues and costs cannot be estimated with precision, the total impact of the proposed amendment is indeterminate.
One would think that having a bunch of abandoned, unwanted infants in state care would affect the budget, but then it IS Florida. They don’t really give a crap about kids so I guess they won’t be helping to support them.
This is not merely savvy. It’s framing the message to influence the millions with short attention spans and low intellectual skills, and to get it in few enough words to make a bumper sticker. The wording probably derives from lots of expensive political consulting work and focus groups.
Or the free State of Florida could see a massive windfall in income from all those nasty whores travelling to Florida to have weekly abortions on demand in conjunction with their vacations to Disney. As they so freely point out, the economic impact is indeterminate.
Good information to know. Often in Florida where I live you have only republican candidates running or mostly republicans. You need to know which ones are reasonable or which ones are maga. Plus a lot of races are not partisan, meaning no party affiliation. So I need to know who has reasonable positions and who is a maga in sheep’s clothing trying to take over a school board. Beau put the links to the information sites in his description box. Try them. Don’t let a maga person sneak through in your district. Hugs. Scottie
Republicans know their polices are unpopular. They don’t want to serve the will of the people, they want to rule the people. They want minority rule over the majority. Their goals, not your needs or desires as the public are important to them. They see you are a problem, not as a valued voter. They don’t want to win your vote, they want to keep you from voting. We must defeat the republicans at all costs, yet our politicians are busy tearing down our best chance and arguing about who should run. There is no time for this shit. Get 110% behind the single candidate and beat the fuck out of praising them. Do it. The republicans do that. They don’t let tRump’s court cases or his rambling make no sense speeches stop them. They sing his praises which are all lies. And they win that way. They don’t care what is true. By my dogs that love gravy, the democrats love to sabotage themselves every chance they get. They are nervous nellies at every turn. Hugs. Scottie
This is a repeat of history. 1930s German with an authoritarian leader with a compliant congress with a plan to take over the government functions to end rights and liberty for some people while making others a superior race. Damn it people wake up. We have seen this movie before. The fascist are the bad guys. We had to stop them then, we have to stop them now. They did not have permits yet they marched and paraded anyway. They vandalized public property, costing taxpayer money to repair. They threatened people, rule by violence, by gang thugs, brownshirts, tRump soldiers. Hugs. Scottie
For the second time in just nearly as many weeks, a hate group stationed themselves in downtown Nashville and passed out flyers against those who were Jewish and in the LGBTQ community.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — For the second time in just nearly as many weeks, a hate group stationed themselves in downtown Nashville and passed out flyers against those who were Jewish and in the LGBTQ community.
The group kept passing out flyers that labeled Jewish people as pedophiles and screaming that those who are LGBTQ needed to “get the f—k home.” Their shirts read “pro white” on the front. On the back of the shirt, it read “whites against replacement.” They stood alongside a Nazi flag and a sign that said Let’s Go Brandon, a moniker against President Joe Biden.
“Joe Biden’s cabinet is 80% Jewish,” one of the group told our camera crew.
Men in the group were raising their arms in the same salute as Nazi soldiers did to Adolf Hitler during his fascist rise of power in the 1930s and 1940s.
“The Holocaust never happened,” they told our camera crew.
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A man holds a flyer in the face of another while a hate group stood at Third and Broadway in Nashville, Tenn., on July 14, 2024.
Those at Third and Broadway identified themselves as the Goyim Defense League, and they are defined as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. They are a group that primarily lends their hate to the Jewish community, though the group on Broadway was screaming about the Jewish, LGBTQ and the Black community.
“It’s time for white people to stand up for themselves,” the group told pedestrians walking by.
We captured a woman who was gay screaming at the group for being out there in front of her child. They screamed at her that she shouldn’t have any children.
“My daughter is scared of you!” the woman screamed, who said she had just come out of a restaurant.
Metro Nashville police officers were near the group on Lower Broadway.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville posted on Sunday about hate groups continuing to hand out flyers that show hatred against Jewish people, including Saturday night in Nashville.
“The Jewish Federation of Greater Nashville is disgusted that once again our beloved city has been sullied by antisemitic instigators,” Jewish leaders said in a statement. “Last night, a group of roughly 15 Jew-haters handed out antisemitic literature in downtown while spewing loathsome rhetoric. We condemn this activity in the strongest possible way and denounce the perpetrators. Antisemitism — the irrational hatred of Jews — continues to escalate here in Middle Tennessee and around the country (and world). We are in constant contact with local law enforcement and thank them for their hard work and partnership in ensuring that the hateful words being espoused do not turn into violent actions against our community members or institutions.”
Previous hate groups in Nashville
The hate group the Patriot Front didn’t have a permit to march in the city, but they did so anyway last weekend.
The group went through the streets of downtown Nashville a “Reclaim America” banner, American flags, a Confederate flag and passing out flyers while chanting on their way to the front of the Capitol. Some also held red, white, and blue shields.
They also spray-painted their logo under the Woodland Street Bridge, which is vandalism.
In February, the group defaced the retaining wall in Brentwood on the side of Interstate 65. The Tennessee Department of Transportation had to paint over it.
Other racist flyers were passed out in downtown in February.
On Sunday, once again, a hate group put on a demonstration in downtown Nashville. This time, it was the neo-Nazi “Goyim Defense League,” shouting “Hitler was right!” and other vile words! 1/ pic.twitter.com/CcP59f7mIk
'They see Tennessee as a battleground.' New data points to dramatic rise of hate in Tennessee (From my “Hate Comes to Main Street” investigation) 3/3 https://t.co/23UouVF05H
JUST IN: Video of a fight in downtown Nashville involving the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League. MNPD was on the scene. It’s unclear if any arrests were made. https://t.co/EOmA1VwGBvpic.twitter.com/PHJdaFYr7m
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