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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/23/us/politics/republican-election-objectors-demographics.html

 

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When Representative Troy Nehls of Texas voted last year to reject Donald J. Trump’s electoral defeat, many of his constituents back home in Fort Bend County were thrilled.

Like the former president, they have been unhappy with the changes unfolding around them. Crime and sprawl from Houston, the big city next door, have been spilling over into their once bucolic towns. (“Build a wall,” Mr. Nehls likes to say, and make Houston pay.) The county in recent years has become one of the nation’s most diverse, where the former white majority has fallen to just 30 percent of the population.

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Don Demel, a 61-year-old salesman who turned out last month to pick up a signed copy of a book by Mr. Nehls about the supposedly stolen election, said his parents had raised him “colorblind.” But the reason for the discontent was clear: Other white people in Fort Bend “did not like certain people coming here,” he said. “It’s race. They are old-school.”

A shrinking white share of the population is a hallmark of the congressional districts held by the House Republicans who voted to challenge Mr. Trump’s defeat, a New York Times analysis found — a pattern political scientists say shows how white fear of losing status shaped the movement to keep him in power.

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The portion of white residents dropped about 35 percent more over the last three decades in those districts than in territory represented by other Republicans, the analysis found, and constituents also lagged behind in income and education. Rates of so-called deaths of despair, such as suicide, drug overdose and alcohol-related liver failure, were notably higher as well.

Although overshadowed by the assault on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the House vote that day was the most consequential of Mr. Trump’s ploys to overturn the election. It cast doubt on the central ritual of American democracy, galvanized the party’s grass roots around the myth of a stolen victory and set a precedent that legal experts — and some Republican lawmakers — warn could perpetually embroil Congress in choosing a president.

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  On 10/24/2022 at 7:52 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

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fort bend county fucking sucks 

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  On 10/20/2022 at 10:33 PM, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Letter being left in mailboxes in Lakeway in which the owners of said mailboxes have Beto O'Rourke signs in their yards. There are some sick, cowardly fucks out there.

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This is why I don’t put yard signs in our yard. I make hard note of the signs in which if my neighbors yards. Other folks do the same. I see no reason to make my family a target. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 12:08 PM, SydneyCarton said:

This is why I don’t put yard signs in our yard. I make hard note of the signs in which if my neighbors yards. Other folks do the same. I see no reason to make my family a target. 

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Caution is the better part of valor. Two big middle finger sculptures would be unnecessarily abrasive, according to the Mrs. So we went with Mothers Against Greg Abbott.

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  On 10/25/2022 at 1:52 PM, Willfully Horn said:

Caution is the better part of valor. Two big middle finger sculptures would be unnecessarily abrasive, according to the Mrs. So we went with Mothers Against Greg Abbott.

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I see this one more and more. One lunatic has it on a tree in his yard, next to a beto house. Saw it again on a truck with an Aggy sticker this morning as I voted. 
 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 1:59 PM, SydneyCarton said:

I see this one more and more. One lunatic has it on a tree in his yard, next to a beto house. Saw it again on a truck with an Aggy sticker this morning as I voted. 
 

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I haven’t seen that one. The tree of liberty, I presume. 
 

Those folks refused masks to protect others, because “God will protect ME.” (Apparently, God doesn’t protect against guns, in their white man’s voodoo form of Christianity). But they’ll think themselves agents of God when they start killing people. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 2:13 PM, Willfully Horn said:

I haven’t seen that one. The tree of liberty, I presume. 
 

Those folks refused masks to protect others, because “God will protect ME.” (Apparently, God doesn’t protect against guns, in their white man’s voodoo form of Christianity). But they’ll think themselves agents of God when they start killing people. 

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Google it. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 2:28 PM, SydneyCarton said:

Google it. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 2:13 PM, Willfully Horn said:

I haven’t seen that one. The tree of liberty, I presume. 
 

Those folks refused masks to protect others, because “God will protect ME.” (Apparently, God doesn’t protect against guns, in their white man’s voodoo form of Christianity). But they’ll think themselves agents of God when they start killing people. 

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It's originally a Revolutionary War flag (I believe) that has been co-opted by Nazis to fit their views. 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 2:29 AM, Neonmoon said:

Unfortunately for our timeline, Musk will be deleting those threads in the near future. 

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You had to know this is/was in the works/a possibility. Whoever controls the medium controls the message, and Gab, Parler, and Truth while good at keeping their target audiences sated and frenzied, were unable to shut down dissension on other platforms.

In some ways it is harder to counter that censoring than pre tech. In other ways with tech, if you can get around it and broadcast your message via workarounds it can spread faster. But as in other authoritarian countries you have to be willing to risk everything.

In the timeline of our modern reality, one has this poster and all it represents

Nike. Colin Kaepernick. Just Do It. | Colin kaepernick, Design campaign ...

created by the design team for a company whose owner is actively donating for GOP representation in the state of Oregon.

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  On 10/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Voldemort86 said:

That poor girl. Her dad probably consumes 20 hours of Fox News a day.

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Judging by what he sent her Dad probably thinks Fox News is overrun with devious RINOs and librul spies. He’s way up on the uncut dope of Q Anon shit and he’s clearly doing plenty of his own (idiotic) “research” at this point. 
 

 

  On 10/25/2022 at 9:51 AM, Voldemort86 said:
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Once more, with feeling, because the truth (maybe no longer) matters:  Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of Capitol security, nor is she in charge of the Capitol Police.  The three-(active)-member Capitol Police Board has that distinction, and is comprised of the Sgts-at-Arms of both the House & Senate along with the Architect of the Capitol.  Those Sgt-at-Arms report to the leaders of their respective chambers (Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell), but as the supervisory board they have authority over Capitol Police activity w/o superior approval.  In point of fact, all three Board members felt that intelligence didn't warrant additional Police security on January 6th.  That decision had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi (or Mitch McConnell, for that matter).

Only you can help stamp out Facebook liars.

 

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  On 10/25/2022 at 1:59 PM, SydneyCarton said:

I see this one more and more. One lunatic has it on a tree in his yard, next to a beto house. Saw it again on a truck with an Aggy sticker this morning as I voted. 
 

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This one in particular pisses me off. I first saw it in the opening of HBO's "John Adams" and become interested in the history and it's relationship to John Locke's Second Treatise of government.

I started wearing a hat with this emblem several years ago as I considered it a repudiation of Trump's increasing authoritarianism. I was very irritated on Jan 6 when some friends told me I should stop wearing it as it's been co-opted. Why should I stop wearing it? They're the ones that suck.

I only occasionally wear it now. Can't wait until some mouth-breather gives me a Trump thumbs up. We are going to have a serious disagreement.

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  On 10/26/2022 at 3:09 PM, jimmyjazz said:

Once more, with feeling, because the truth (maybe no longer) matters:  Nancy Pelosi is not in charge of Capitol security, nor is she in charge of the Capitol Police.  The three-(active)-member Capitol Police Board has that distinction, and is comprised of the Sgts-at-Arms of both the House & Senate along with the Architect of the Capitol.  Those Sgt-at-Arms report to the leaders of their respective chambers (Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell), but as the supervisory board they have authority over Capitol Police activity w/o superior approval.  In point of fact, all three Board members felt that intelligence didn't warrant additional Police security on January 6th.  That decision had nothing to do with Nancy Pelosi (or Mitch McConnell, for that matter).

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All of those insurrectionists calling for her head? They were crisis actors paid for by  Nancy Pelosi!

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Can we get a Forensic Files type show for politics to show hospitalized patients?  I'm sick of walking in on Fox/MSNBC/CNN skewed stuff.    

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Hidden camera interviewer tells Paul Gosar he may have shot migrants on his property in Arizona and Gosar says thanks and, "Say a prayer because this country needs you. There's a bunch of people that are ready to go into action."

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) responded to a man who claimed he’d shot migrants by telling him that “this country needs you.”

In a video posted on Twitter by Lauren Windsor of Under Current, a man approaches the congressman while wearing a hidden camera.

Windsor and her team famously pose as conservatives and speak to Republican politicians to get them to let their guards down.

“I’m actually a huge fan of everything you’ve done for election integrity and everything,” the man tells Gosar, referring to the congressman’s false claims about the 2020 election being stolen from Donald Trump. “I’m just–especially protecting our southern border. My family’s ranch is down in Yuma and we have illegals on our land a lot. We’ve shot at them and you know, our Second Amendments rights to stand our ground. I’m worried that the Democrats are gonna send me to jail.”

“They have more rights than we do,” replies Gosar, who earlier this year took heat for addressing a white nationalist conference via video.

“Yeah, it’s like I can’t shoot them when, you know, as they cross the border and stuff,” the man continues as Gosar nods. “I mean, I think I might’ve hit someone. I might’ve hit someone and I’m like, I was distressed about it for a week.”

The man thanks Gosar again.

“You’re certainly welcome,” he responds.

Gosar extends his hand and shakes with the man.

“Say a prayer because this country needs you,” Gosar tells him. “There’s a bunch of people that are ready to go into action.”

A woman off camera then asks if Gosar supports pardons for citizens who shoot migrants trying to cross the border. Gosar replied he’s optimistic about such a possibility if Republican Kari Lake is elected governor next month. The congressman then gets up and bids them farewell.

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I'm only asking this because the past few years we've seen crazy shit that honestly wasn't even believable...  So...

 

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Nah...

 

Right? right?

 

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  On 10/28/2022 at 3:42 AM, Beau Vine said:

I'm only asking this because the past few years we've seen crazy shit that honestly wasn't even believable...  So...

 

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I know a Jewish David Duke. He uses a fake first name on social media….

He’s a close friend of a good friend of mine who has a warped sense of humor. The two of them abuse each other for sport and it’s all in good fun — Duke rags on Chris for being redneck trash and Chris gives David the Cartman vs Kyle business and it’s all in good fun but one Friday afternoon Chris was relaxed enough and dumb enough to engage like this on the phone at work. A co-worker passing his office heard his end of the banter and ran straight to HR.

Called on the carpet, Chris tried to explain. “She heard me say what? Oh wow that must have sounded terrible! But I was just talking to my good friend. His names David Duke.” 

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