‘Never Trumpers’ will talk their way into voting for DeSantis. But Trump is a stronger candidate in the Midwest. but feel like DeSantis flips back Arizona and Georgia
Trump will call him a name that a 1st grader would have come up with, and Ron's political career will be over. Creepy Ron or whatever.
"questions about whether they sought to exploit relationships with foreign leaders for business interests."
That’s not the counterpoint to my POV. Im talking about how pols use rhetoric around bad actors. Also, I couldn’t blame anyone for furthering themselves from impotent septa/octogenarians who are either despised or disregarded.
We have your standard Republican candiates for governor this cycle: a Black cop who hates Blacks, a rich weirdo who got rich by being a relentless and corner-cutting charlatan and lies about his accomplishments, a Black woman gun nut who lied about polling irregularities in the Big Lie, a white guy in a cowboy hat, the state police chief who thinks Joe Biden won fair and legally and therefore has no chance, another Black guy who hates blacks, a female conservative talk show host endorsed by the DeVos idiots, a white guy in a vest, some other shitlords.
Been thinking about this for a while and I’m high enough to finally put it out there. To me, words matter. And the fact that we accept the name of “The US Civil War” to refer to the war is a mistake. It wasn’t a civil war by definition, which is when two sides fight for control of the same government. And at the time, it was widely known as The War of Rebellion, especially in the North, because that’s really what it was. As such, I think a much more apt name for what actually happened and what should become the modern norm is The American Slavers Rebellion. No foreign country recognized the CSA as an independent nation, nor did the US Federal government. We should stop teaching it as states actually leaving the Union to form a new country as succession wasn’t recognized, and instead teach it as the years-long quashing of a large group of slavers in rebellion. Get all the “lost cause” bullshit out of our history. I also have long thought that the MAGA faction of the GOP should be referred to by the exonym “Hard R Republicans”, or “Hard Rs” for short, in contrast to their counterpart RINOs (aka corporate interests). Please respect my decision to use these terms moving forward.
It’s an inspirational story whenever a family can amass that kind of fortune without the benefits of an emerald mine in a society that’s only marginally freer than one with legal slavery.
Well ya know Dems are replacing all the John Anglo-Saxons so it’s only fair the GOP just makes shit up. Pelosi made them : /
Nah, he’s boring and uncharismatic as shit. Trump without the thump. Terrible for the media. They’d much rather roll the trump tapes back and do it all over again for another 4 years.
mother fucker! Cinemark theaters to host a propaganda film aimed at undermining U.S. democracy Far-right conspiracy crank Dinesh D'Souza is back with yet another conspiracy theory to promote, and if you haven't heard much about the Republican propagandist's newest film, it’s because it is extremely, unfathomably stupid. 2000 Mules achieved a level of stupidity so stupid that D'Souza can't even get Fox News to jump in with the usual publicity boost. It's a train wreck. That status, however, may not prevent the (cough) "film" from coming to a theater near you. Any theater chain still devoted to making money won't likely be touching it, but Judd Legum's Popular Information reports that theater chain Cinemark will be showing the film in at least 169 locations. That's significant, Legum and reporter Rebecca Crosby explain, because Cinemark is founded and headed by far-right Republican donor Lee Roy Mitchell, who's shelled out donations to Trump, still-indicted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kris Kobach, and—surprise—Dennis Prager, one of the conspiracy weirdos D'Souza leans on in his film to sell, again, the stupidest conspiracy theory D'Souza has yet mustered in a long, stupid career. Spoiler This is a film that's assured to tank, but it's going to be propped up as best it can by the same Republican donors that brought the Republican Party to the point of attempted coup because they can. Fomenting conspiracies that result in terrorist acts is what the movement does now. But Lee Roy Mitchell is also taking a big risk on this one himself, because the only people eagerly looking forward to a Dinesh D'Souza conspiracy film about supposed election fraud are the sort of people who demand motor oil on their popcorn. This just feels like lawsuits waiting to happen. To re-explain the Big Lie premise of D'Souza's film, the entire premise of D'Souza's film is "secret" footage of Americans dropping off more than one ballot at a time in ballot drop boxes, which is both legal and blazingly standard fare when your household has more than one voter, coupled with an assertion that D'Souza's interviewed "experts" used geotracking to determine that 2,000 people, in a bunch of different states, were identified as being within 100 feet of ballot dropbox 10 or more times during the last month of the election and also were near some arbitrary set of nonprofit offices that D'Souza declares to be suspicious because screw you, that's why, and all that seems extremely super suspicious if you don’t think about it for more than five seconds. And so, since this whole D'Souza film is based on completely stupid lies about Trump being cheated out of an election win by a network of master criminals who D'Souza makes little to no actual attempt at proving the existence of, I've decided I'm going to just lie like crazy for the rest of this story because hey, why the hell not. Since Dinesh D'Souza was abandoned as a baby on a polar ice floe before being found and raised by a family of moths, an upbringing that delivered unto him absolutely no non-moth social skills, his movie carefully avoids considering the actual answer for his "geolocated" data that seemingly every last reviewer immediately stumbled upon even though his own experts could not identify it: Ballot drop boxes are put in public locations. The odds that you will find Americans going near the same drop box repeatedly over the course of a month are, if you presume any of these people have jobs or lives, pretty damn high! Nonprofit offices are also generally in places with other offices because This Is How Zoning Laws Work, and so what D'Souza has actually discovered appears to be what the rest of us commonly refer to as "commuters." What is that? You say that in your vast research, you have found that Americans tend go the same places multiple times in the same month? And that of those set-in-their-ways Americans, some of them also go to different high-traffic places in that same month? Holy. Freaking. Heck. We'd better get the urban planners on this one post-haste. D'Souza, a man who up until now was mostly known for being sexually attracted to incandescent light bulbs, has cracked the societal code. D'Souza, the man personally responsible for bringing Sailor Moon cosplay conventions to Ohio, has discovered the plodding monotony of modern life. D'Souza, the only man ex-congressman Devin Nunes trusts with his old toenail clippings, has discovered ennui. What D'Souza and his team of mostly trained possums were not able to find, however, was any actual "mules" doing any actual ballot muling. Footage of average Americans dropping off three or four ballots are not then followed by any evidence that any of them ever dropped off any more than that, at that drop box or at any other, which is like me claiming that D'Souza has had sexual intercourse with 100,000 incandescent bulbs despite footage existing of only one rousing three-way. This is why the film is, objectively, completely stupid. It doesn't even work as good propaganda because D'Souza, the man who last week sold Devin Nunes' entire toenail clipping stash to Chinese agents in exchange for only a single 40-watt bulb, can't even construct a story coherent enough to lie around. Oh, look, someone dropped a ballot off while wearing latex gloves. During a pandemic. An active freaking pandemic that is killing people. During the specific fall in which a new pandemic surge was once again filling hospitals. I can't believe the Cinemark guy isn't putting this in 1,000 theaters instead of just 100. Is it because the Cinemark guy is afraid of the truth? Is it because Paxton, who was behind the entire scheme as means of channeling election funds to his new planned theme park for Sailor Moon cosplaying orchard moths, threatened him with a loaded moth? We may never know the truth, specifically because we've decided it's much more fun to just make up random horsecrap and toss it into the public sphere with no particular concern for making any of it sound consistent or plausible. Anyhoo, this is probably the last you'll be hearing about the D'Souza film. Just know that if you see it in a theater it's because a rich Republican donor is boosting a conspiracy theory meant to undermine democracy itself so that Republicans like Donald Trump and the indicted Paxton can retain power even if the voters vote to toss them out. There are a whole lot of pro-sedition Republican donors. Maybe it's because they want more tax cuts, or maybe they just like stoking violence based on manufactured hoaxes. Madison Cawthorn tried to warn you all when he let on that he was being invited to Republican cocaine-and-lightbulb orgies, but his Republican colleagues snuffed him out like it was nothing. It really makes you think. Oh—and you should probably be avoiding Cinemark theaters, because your money will be going to a guy who’s helping to finance attacks on democracy on behalf of a collection of grifting criminals and buffoons.
Finally some charges in this ghost candidate case. The one in Miami actually made a difference so hope that soon follows. https://floridapolitics.com/archive...-two-others-indicted-in-ghost-candidate-case/
Author Margaret Atwood attempts to light a flame-resistant copy of her book The Handmaid's Tale in a video released on May 24, 2022. (Image: screenshot/Penguin Random House) Atwood Releases Fire-Proof Copy of 'Handmaid's Tale' to Combat GOP Book-Banning "To see her classic novel about the dangers of oppression reborn in this innovative, unburnable edition is a timely reminder of what's at stake in the battle against censorship." May 24, 2022 Proceeds from an auction of an unusual edition of Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale will go to the free expression advocacy group PEN America, as the group stands up to right-wing attempts to ban books in the United States. The single copy of the novel is made entirely of flame-resistant material, as evidenced in a video released Monday in which Atwood herself attempts to light the book on fire. Spoiler Atwood and the publishing company Penguin Random House announced Monday that the book will be auctioned off at Sotheby's New York, both to help PEN America fight censorship and as a challenge to enacted and attempted book bans. "To see her classic novel about the dangers of oppression reborn in this innovative, unburnable edition is a timely reminder of what's at stake in the battle against censorship," Markus Dohle, CEO of Penguin Random House, told the Associated Press Tuesday. The publisher worked with Atwood, PEN America, the Toronto-based creative agency Rethink, and a bookbinding studio called the Gas Company to create the book. The flame-proof copy is made of thin sheets of Cinefoil, an aluminum product, and was sewn together using nickel copper wire. The creation of the book comes as attempts to ban books by lawmakers and school districts have surged to their highest level since the American Library Association began recording such censorship two decades ago. The group reported 729 challenges to materials in schools and libraries. Last week, more than 1,000 children's book authors and artists signed a letter condemning "the efforts by organized groups to purge books from our nation's schools." The Handmaid's Tale was banned in schools in Texas and Kansas last year. According to PEN America, as Republicans center their 2022 electoral campaigns largely on protesting the teaching of the United States' long history of racial injustice and discussions of gender identity in public schools, GOP lawmakers in 42 states have proposed nearly 200 pieces of legislation seeking to limit school discussions of such topics. The unburnable copy of The Handmaid's Tale is "an unforgettable visual metaphor" for the current political climate in the U.S., Atwood told the AP.