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One of the Hershels busts out of the gate bringing the heat. Can’t wait to see what the other 12 personalities bring to the table:

Former NFL player and current Georgia GOP Senate candidate Hershel Walker promoted a “dry mist” that promised to “kill any Covid on your body” in an interview on Glenn Beck’s podcast during the summer of 2020.

“Do you know right now, I have something that [you can bring] into a building, that will clean you of Covid, as you walk through this, this dry mist?” Walker told Beck in August 2020, months before vaccines became available. The comments were surfaced Wednesday by The Daily Beast.

“As you walk through the door, it will kill any Covid on your body,” Walker promised of the “dry spray,” adding, “EPA-, FDA-approved. When you leave, it will kill the virus as you leave, this here product.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/hershel-walker-covid-mist-resurfaced-interview-1283585/

 

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12 hours ago, Satchel said:

One of the Hershels busts out of the gate bringing the heat. Can’t wait to see what the other 12 personalities bring to the table:

Former NFL player and current Georgia GOP Senate candidate Hershel Walker promoted a “dry mist” that promised to “kill any Covid on your body” in an interview on Glenn Beck’s podcast during the summer of 2020.

“Do you know right now, I have something that [you can bring] into a building, that will clean you of Covid, as you walk through this, this dry mist?” Walker told Beck in August 2020, months before vaccines became available. The comments were surfaced Wednesday by The Daily Beast.

“As you walk through the door, it will kill any Covid on your body,” Walker promised of the “dry spray,” adding, “EPA-, FDA-approved. When you leave, it will kill the virus as you leave, this here product.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/hershel-walker-covid-mist-resurfaced-interview-1283585/

 

You realize he's running for Senate, right? Stacy Abrams is running for Governor against incumbent Brian Kemp. 

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Not to derail the thread too much, but why do we still have to pretend that Jesus was white? Football teams are changing their names, Hollywood gets criticized for hiring white actors to play historical characters, but there's not even the tiniest movement around White Jesus. Always seemed odd to me.

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6 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Not to derail the thread too much, but why do we still have to pretend that Jesus was white? Football teams are changing their names, Hollywood gets criticized for hiring white actors to play historical characters, but there's not even the tiniest movement around White Jesus. Always seemed odd to me.

He was probably olive skinned like many Jews in Israel back then.  I don’t really care what color his skin was. 

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10 minutes ago, aggie08 said:

Not to derail the thread too much, but why do we still have to pretend that Jesus was white? Football teams are changing their names, Hollywood gets criticized for hiring white actors to play historical characters, but there's not even the tiniest movement around White Jesus. Always seemed odd to me.

I wish y'all cared more about the Ethiopians and Copts too. 

 

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I at least understand how mask-less pictures happen in a private suite at a football stadium...though still a bad look for the politicians who enact them. But this one...holy shit, that's awful.

How no one in the room looked around and said, "Uh, you shouldn't take that picture" is beyond me. 

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7 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Damn right. 23nMe recently decided I was about 1/256 Copt. No idea when or how but I am fired up and ready to scrap for my people.

Be prepared to be blown up where you sit in contemplation while posters opine about White Jesus on the internet.  

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41 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

If you look at who donates the most to kid-focus e charities and who adopts kids, you wouldn’t repeat this trope

This just in:

Well-off families--who, historically, have skewed conservative--give more to charity and adopt more children.

More news at 11.

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18 hours ago, aggie08 said:

Not to derail the thread too much, but why do we still have to pretend that Jesus was white? Football teams are changing their names, Hollywood gets criticized for hiring white actors to play historical characters, but there's not even the tiniest movement around White Jesus. Always seemed odd to me.

jesus was white just like all jewish people.

-whoopi

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On 2/6/2022 at 6:04 PM, aggie08 said:

This just in:

Well-off families--who, historically, have skewed conservative--give more to charity and adopt more children.

More news at 11.

However, income correlates with education and education also correlates with liberalism, so we're gonna need more from you.  Also, proportion of right-wing adopters to proportion of right-wing in population at large. 

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Abrams deserves criticism for the maskless pictures. She also fumbled the response to criticism by just not owning her error and encouraging all people to wear masks.

The hate engine deserves criticism for balleyhooing this over the course of days as an emblem of Dem hypocrisy and just another part of their spittle spraying invective.

I see the hate engine destroying discourse and the country. I see the mask issue as a gaff.

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13 hours ago, F250 said:

Her handlers fucked that one up. It's a simple photo op with everyone in the picture wearing a mask. "Should we say something? Nah, it'll be fine."

Disagree. This is not some detail that would be all on the handlers, like arriving at the Spittle County BBQ at 2:30 instead of 2:45. This is on the same level as Stacey remembering to wear two of the same sock. Do they dress her? Is she a model in a photo-shoot? She's a grown woman in a room full of masked-up teachers and kids. Wearing that mask should have been ingrained habit, like flushing the toilet after taking a dump.

But let's say the handlers forgot to do something so it's on them. That's worse that a simple "Stacey fucked up." Possibilities to explain that are that they are all so used to swanning around en masse unmasked that it didn't register, fair enough, for pro-mask people it's kinda like having a beer at the AA meeting, but who doesn't like beer.

But what I get from her "If you criticize me for hypocrisy it's racist" blow-up is that her handlers might be terrified of her. She is trying to lead millions of people, half of whom will never love her, but might at least respect an adherence to the same rules she espouses. 

tldr: Handlers could do better, but Stacey fucked up.

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4 hours ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

thank god for the poors, amirite?

 

 

Somebody has to do all the work!

Interesting chart. I went and looked up what % make more than $500k which seems to be the 1%; over $250k makes up about 2%.

Then I looked at the chart again and was more stricken by the closeness at every level than the tendencies of each income level. I may be mansplaining your point here, but I hadn't really thought that much about this. 

Aside from mere number of votes, consider the amount of money that can be brought to bear to influence the other 98% in their votes through advertising and supporting the development of rhetoric by the think tanks. If your think tank comes up with the hate motive first and is willing to shamelessly use it, you win!

Specifically, I think about how the GOP has convinced those whom will never be affected by them of the dire threat of capital gains taxes, inheritance taxes, and SEC regulations. Ebil libs and their socialistic notions of everbody paying their share.

I suppose it should be encouraging that nearly half the economic elite rejected Trump at the voting booth. I wonder how much they spent compared to the elites who supported Trump. Speaking of rhetoric, that question seems somewhat rhetorical now that I've typed it out.

The lower quarter voting against their interests* is, of course, the worrisome part. The electorate is the problem.

*Here I use the quaint notion of interests including more than how much money you get or keep. Things like institutions to protect democracy, agencies that enforce worker safety, agencies seeing to clean air and water, and non-governmental things like unions that empower workers and lawyers who might be your only shot against the great powers.

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Ouch, The Orange One's influence is not all that influential.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/16/politics/david-perdue-georgia-governor-primary/index.html

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)David Perdue kicked off his campaign for governor of Georgia with an emphatic endorsement from former President Donald Trump.

But since then, his primary challenge to unseat Brian Kemp -- the Republican governor Trump loves to hate -- has been a big flop.

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Perdue, a former US senator, has so far raised a fraction of what Kemp has in his campaign war chest. Very few Republican elected officials, operatives, donors and activists in Georgia have abandoned Kemp in favor of Perdue. And limited public polling hasn't been promising, either.

"I think Perdue is on life support and knows it," said one neutral GOP operative who requested anonymity to speak freely. "The Kemp momentum is palpable." 

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The Perdue campaign is drawing attention from around the country, in part as a test case on the GOP's tolerance for Trump's vendettas. The former President remains exceedingly popular within the party, but his relentless focus on the 2020 election may have put him a beat behind Republicans who have moved on to other issues such as school mask mandates and the economy.

 

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