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TexasEd

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4 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

That’s a lot of losers. But the sitting attorney general of the state where I live is on that fucking bill. It’s not my fault, Will Hunting style, but I find myself just overcome with embarrassment. 
 

GottaGetOutOfThisPlace.Marla.FightClub 

 

Technically he’s not sitting.  How many of these people are either ‘indicated’ or co-conspirators?

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"General Paxton.  Perhaps we should focus on your impeachment hearing, the pending felony criminal trials, and beefing up your security in the wake of Nate Paul telling the cartels more information about you admitting money laundering details to the Feds to stay out of prison."

AG Ken, "Well, I wish I could.  But I'm afraid I'm busy.  You see...I'm opening for Garland Favorito at the airport Red Roof Inn..."  

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

EVERYONE, CLEAR YOUR CALENDARS FOR TOMORROW AND THURSDAY!!!

 

Quite the Murderer's Row of guest speakers.  Who the hell is [checks notes] Garland Favorito?  

 

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Jesus, are ANY of these publicity pics from THIS century?    

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4 minutes ago, Red Five said:

Garland Favorito. Garland Favorite.

OMG it's Jack Smith!

This did make me daydream of a moment where Jack Smith busted thru the stage a la the Kool-Aid Man with Federal Agents in tow and arrested all these assholes.  

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"Professor Clements" was a BLaw professor at NM State who apparently decided that grifting the rubes was more lucrative than being a business professor <sigh, FML>:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-election-clements/

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Clements is a star in the world of election denial. Drawing on his credentials as a former prosecutor and professor, he lends a veneer of intellectual gravitas to bogus voter-fraud claims that have been overwhelmingly rejected by election officials and the courts.

And yet he’s also fought bitter public battles with fellow election deniers on the political right, revealing rifts that could undermine the movement. “You are going to be shocked at the number of so-called patriots that are agents of hell,” Clements wrote on Telegram in March 2021.

Clements declined to comment for this story unless he could publish a recording of any interview with Reuters, a condition the news organization refused. “You are nothing but a brood of vipers,” he said in an email.

His rise in the movement began in January 2021, when a dispute with his employer, New Mexico State University, over the U.S. Capitol riot went public. It was one of several clashes with management that eventually ended his university career but launched an alternative one as an election denier, helped by donations from the Trump faithful. Soon, he was visiting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s private club in Florida.

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With his graying beard and ruffled hair, Clements casts himself as a conservative Christian warrior defending America from a vast left-wing conspiracy. He mixes his worship of Trump with an oft-professed love of God. He believes election fraud is treason, and traitors should face hanging or firing squads. His declared enemies include “snake” news reporters, “corrupt” judges and “godless commies.”

“Let the TRUTH be a CURSE on these people,” he wrote on Telegram last year.

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Once a self-declared “Never Trumper,” he frowned at the scandals that swirled around Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016. Over the next four years, Clements explained in Telegram posts and a video, he watched Trump stand up to Big Tech and a biased media, and came to view the president as a “God-loving patriot.” He believed Trump was cheated out of victory in 2020.

“I’ve seen this before,” Clements recalled at a pro-Trump gathering in August last year.

He was referring to his own failed political campaign in 2014, when he ran in a Republican primary for the U.S. Senate in New Mexico. His opponent, a wealthy local businessman, won easily.

Clements alleged the businessman’s campaign manager had hacked into his email and flooded his contacts with messages, potentially driving away his supporters. The campaign manager, Diego Espinoza, sued for defamation. The two men reached a settlement. Espinoza couldn’t be reached for comment. Clements still claims he was hacked.

His political ambitions dashed, Clements spent the next four years as a deputy district attorney in New Mexico before landing what he once called “a cush job” as a New Mexico State professor teaching business law in the university’s finance department. The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol helped catapult Clements from a popular professor into a prominent election-denier who would, by year’s end, meet his hero, Trump.

When NMSU president John Floros emailed staff to condemn the Jan. 6 attack, Clements recorded a video response entitled, “Law Professor Responds to WOKE University.” Clements said Floros’ email had sickened him because it demonized Trump supporters like himself. He said evidence of election fraud had been “widely suppressed” by cowardly judges and politicians, and that Big Tech was silencing people with different opinions.

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Clements posted his video on Rumble, the right-wing video-sharing platform. It was picked up by Tucker Carlson, the conservative TV host, who interviewed Clements on his Fox News show on Jan. 19, 2021. “It appears that the university is under a spell of Marxism,” Clements told Carlson. Carlson praised Clements for “saying obvious truths that most people can’t say.”

The appearance launched Clements’ alternative career as an election denier. He started his Telegram channel in March 2021, then raised his profile in election-denying circles by interviewing some of the movement’s key figures – including lawyer Sidney Powell, a major Trump ally – for his channel on Rumble, the video-sharing site.

In April, Clements appeared on War Room, Steve Bannon’s influential online talk show, where he pushed for a state-by-state audit of the 2020 election. He was soon a regular guest. He also championed fellow Trump supporters who had been jailed for their role in the Jan. 6 attack – “political prisoners,” he called them.

Spokespeople for Carlson and Bannon didn’t respond to requests for comment.

In August 2021, Clements appeared at a major election-denier event: Mike Lindell’s “cyber symposium” in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Clements admired the MyPillow Inc CEO. Lindell was a “truth teller” who had funded “every significant effort to reveal the identities of the perpetrators that stole our election,” Clements wrote on Telegram.

Lindell told Reuters he met Clements at the symposium and said they shared a desire to rid America of voting machines. “Everything he’s doing to get rid of them, I praise,” he said.

The symposium didn’t quite go to plan. Lindell invited experts to analyze data he said he had bought from Dennis Montgomery, a computer programmer who claimed to have proof that U.S. voting systems were hacked in the 2020 election. Several of the experts who examined the data have said it was bogus, Reuters previously reported.

Undeterred, Clements took the symposium stage to deliver what he called a “parable,” drawing on a case he said he had prosecuted as a deputy district attorney. He compared a murder by a New Mexico drug-trafficking gang in 2011 to “the murder of your vote” in the 2020 election.

Then he spun an elaborate conspiracy theory in which President Joe Biden belonged to a sinister “election cartel” that included American election officials, West African computer servers and the Chinese government.

And standing up to them all, he told the crowd, was Trump – “the rightful president.”

Clements was rewarded for his loyalty. Two days later, he posted a photo of himself with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. They are both smiling. “The greatest honor of my life,” Clements wrote. “Spent an unforgettable evening with the real President of the United States.”

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Clements’ swift rise in election-denier circles caused a stir at New Mexico State, where he continued to teach. “Many of my colleagues already think I’m a crackpot,” he wrote that summer.

Like others in the election conspiracy movement, Clements believed that COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and masks were a medically useless violation of personal freedoms. When the university resumed in-person classes in August 2021, those beliefs put him in open conflict with school management, which required staff to wear masks and get vaccinations or regular tests.

“I will not take the jab,” he wrote on Telegram that month, claiming without evidence that vaccines had caused “tens of thousands” of deaths. He also refused what he called invasive testing.

Clements posted a video online of his first class of the semester. In it, he compared Covid vaccine rules to Nazi Germany and inaccurately blamed vaccines for causing miscarriages. “I’ll be damned if any of my baby girls in this class loses a child,” Clements said, according to a university investigative report reviewed by Reuters.

As the standoff with the university continued, Clements posted phone numbers and emails of other university employees on his Telegram channel and asked his followers to send them messages on his behalf.

One recipient was Jamie Bronstein, a history professor. She had filed a complaint about Clements’ public support for the Jan. 6 insurrection with the disciplinary board of the New Mexico Supreme Court, which handles complaints against attorneys. Bronstein told Reuters she accused Clements of violating professional standards by trying to foment a civil disturbance. The board took no action against Clements, according to its website, and a board spokesperson declined to comment.

Clements retaliated against Bronstein by posting her email address online, urging his Telegram followers to contact her. “I think she is desperate for pen pals,” Clements wrote on Sept. 15.

Clements asked his online followers to contact Jamie Bronstein, a university colleague who filed a complaint against Clements with a professional board. Bronstein said she received 300 messages, some of them abusive, including the two examples here.

Bronstein told Reuters she received 300 emails and calls, including threats and vicious sexual insults. “You will see hell open up,” read an email sent the same day and seen by Reuters. “I will rip your sick head off.”

Then a man showed up at Bronstein’s class and asked if he could speak to the students. Bronstein kicked him out. The school provided her with a police escort for the rest of the semester, she said. “I did feel like I was under threat,” Bronstein told Reuters.

The university informed Clements in September of its intent to fire him, with a letter citing his “stalwart refusal” to follow its rules. Clements, who posted the letter on Telegram, was unswayed. He also posted the video of his termination hearing on his

website, calling it a “Marxist Tribunal” and editing it so that Nazi swastikas appeared on the screen whenever one of the university officials spoke.

Clements has said repeatedly that he was fired. The university said his employment ended on Oct. 7, 2021, but declined to comment on why he left.

Clements was jobless but not penniless, thanks to an early supporter: Joe Oltmann, a prominent right-wing podcaster and election denier. Calling Clements “a lightning rod of truth and courage,” Oltmann launched an appeal on an online crowdfunding site in August 2021. His appeal has since raised more than $300,000 for Clements, the equivalent of three-and-a-half years of his university salary.

In an interview, Oltmann said he launched the fundraiser and believed Clements was unjustly fired by the university. “They were looking for anything to throw at him,” he said.

 

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1 hour ago, texasdago said:

This dude just figured out how to take a selfie with his flip phone...

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There is a 754% chance that photo is also that dude's profile pic on Grindr.

NTTAWWT.

4 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

 

 

 

I presume the super-duper plan to ensure perfect elections is "only allow registered Republicans to vote."

Who am I kidding.  This prion-addled buffoon doesn't have any goddamned plan.

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