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  On 5/1/2021 at 2:43 AM, tx 3 putt said:
 
are Texas tax payers covering all these media trips on that dps boat ???

Yes. 100%. Because our state government is simply an apparatus of the GQP. And the GQP has only one purpose: create content for Fox News.

I’m not joking, not even a little bit.
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https://www.axios.com/gop-leaders-cheney-ouster-fc28f6c2-507e-4a69-b4c4-6af95cc734fc.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic

 

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Top Republicans are turning on Rep. Liz Cheney, the party’s highest-ranking woman in Congress, with one conservative leader suggesting she could be ousted from her GOP post within a month.

Why it matters: The comments by Reps. Steve Scalise, the minority whip, and Jim Banks, chairman of the Republican Study Committee, carry weight because of their close relationship with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — who is openly feuding with Cheney.

Banks (R-Ind.), leader of the largest conservative caucus in the House, told Axios Friday that Cheney's continued criticisms are "an unwelcome distraction," and he questioned whether she would retain her leadership role in a month.

 

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Banks' comments were echoed more diplomatically by Scalise (R-La.), the No. 2 Republican in the House.

During an interview with Axios on Friday, he said of Cheney: "This idea that you just disregard President Trump is not where we are, and, frankly, he has a lot to offer still.”

Earlier in the week, McCarthy himself told reporters: "If you're sitting here at a retreat that's focused on policy, focused on the future of making American next-century, and you're talking about something else, you're not being productive."

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Cheney is toast. She’s not willing to pledge her life to the cult leader. And being that that’s ALL the party is now...well, that won’t work out for her.

The conversion to a death cult is complete. It’s just that the last pieces are still settling after the fall.

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So, accepting funds for early childhood education that was allocated under the Trump administration is no longer welcomed in Idaho.  Seems about right.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/01/idaho-childcare-battle-us-extremism-post-trump

 

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There is $6m from Donald Trump’s administration sitting on the table in Idaho, and trying to pick it up has caused an extraordinary uproar.

In the months since a Republican house of representatives member first brought the grant for early childhood education to the legislature for a vote, far-right opponents have insisted, despite evidence and assurances proving otherwise, that the grant would be used to “indoctrinate” children five and under, and turn them into social justice activists.

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Supporters of the grant include the state’s two Republican senators and its business lobby, but the most vocal opponents have pitched it as a “battle for the soul of America”.

The real battle, however, appears to be against the influence of fringe voices in Idaho politics. Though seemingly an obscure battle, the intensity of the fight in the state and the blood-curdling language used by its opponents reveals much about American politics in the post-Trump era.

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It is a place where conspiracy theories run amok and where even some Republican legislators are at a loss how to combat the extremism of many of their supporters, who have concluded that grant money for educating young children represents a dire threat to their way of life.

Mike Satz, executive director of a new effort to combat extremism in Idaho, the Idaho 97 Project, said: “The politics have really started devolving and the extremists have really started taking control of the Republican party in the state, and now the policies are not for the people – conservative or liberal or whatever the ideology is.”

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My boss lives in an Eastern Oregon county that votes on a regular basis to petition the state to let them join Idaho. She is quite happy that they are regularly rebuffed, because, and I quote, "Idaho is batshit crazy."

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  On 5/1/2021 at 3:25 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

My boss lives in an Eastern Oregon county that votes on a regular basis to petition the state to let them join Idaho. She is quite happy that they are regularly rebuffed, because, and I quote, "Idaho is batshit crazy."

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Rural PNW does have its own brand of crazy, united with disparate reaches of the country only by open borders and a cultivated, shared resentment. 

Dig the flag tho. 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 3:25 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

My boss lives in an Eastern Oregon county that votes on a regular basis to petition the state to let them join Idaho. She is quite happy that they are regularly rebuffed, because, and I quote, "Idaho is batshit crazy."

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In another thread about cities that are "the next Austin," Boise gets a mention but the bat shittness of Idaho may slow that roll but then again, Northwest Arkansas has the same problem.

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  On 4/30/2021 at 3:26 PM, Beau Vine said:

The people I see decrying socialism and accusing the Dems of being socialists most definitely do not send their kids to private school.  They're largely undereducated blue collar grunts, and their facebook pages are filled with pictures of their kids playing football or volleyball for San Marcos junior high school, and it really throws them for a loop when I ask them, "If you're so against socialism, why is your kid attending public school?"  

I usually get no response to that.  


They also frequently use "socialism" and "communism" interchangeably.  (see the "largely undereducated" part)

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Which leads eventually to the "well, if I could afford it, I would send my kids to private churchy school  . . . .  But I can't afford it because of all these commanis and hommasekshuls that run things."

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  On 5/1/2021 at 3:25 PM, Walden Ponderer said:

My boss lives in an Eastern Oregon county that votes on a regular basis to petition the state to let them join Idaho. She is quite happy that they are regularly rebuffed, because, and I quote, "Idaho is batshit crazy."

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It seems that any rural or even rural-ish place is exceedingly vulnerable to the stupid and Trumpy.

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  On 5/1/2021 at 2:38 PM, Brisketexan said:
Cheney is toast. She’s not willing to pledge her life to the cult leader. And being that that’s ALL the party is now...well, that won’t work out for her.

The conversion to a death cult is complete. It’s just that the last pieces are still settling after the fall.



When will they start wearing/displaying armbands to show their allegiance to Dotard and the GQP?
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  On 5/1/2021 at 4:37 PM, TwiceHorn said:

It seems that any rural or even rural-ish place is exceedingly vulnerable to the stupid and Trumpy.

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I live in a rural area that is not Trumpy. It is literally next door, though, to the Trumpiest rural areas you could ever hope to see. Hillsborough, NC is what Austin would be if it were a village. Graham, NC is 10 miles down the road, and is where the yards all have Trump signs still proudly declaring their allegiance, and the basements all have varying degrees of crimes in progress that you really don't want to ask questions about.

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  On 4/30/2021 at 8:39 PM, Pancho said:

Georgia is next to Mexico?

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  On 5/1/2021 at 3:27 AM, CooterBrown said:

I love that these pussies have to wear body armor on the border.

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edit to add: I canoe and camp along the border on the Rio Grande whenever I can (which is not often enough), and the only Mexican nationals I ever see is the occasional and lone caballero, who always gives a friendly wave and a shout asking about "vacas solitarias".

 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 2:18 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

During an interview with Axios on Friday, he said of Cheney: "This idea that you just disregard President Trump is not where we are, and, frankly, he has a lot to offer still.”

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Still has a lot to offer?  

Like an even bigger defeat in the voting booth?

Like siphon even more campaign donations away from the GOP and Republicans still in office?

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  On 5/1/2021 at 2:38 PM, Brisketexan said:

Cheney is toast. She’s not willing to pledge her life to the cult leader. And being that that’s ALL the party is now...well, that won’t work out for her.

The conversion to a death cult is complete. It’s just that the last pieces are still settling after the fall.

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I’d be willing to bet a substantial percentage of my appendages that Cheney doesn’t make it out of the R primary in Wyoming, if she even wants to run again. 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 2:38 PM, Brisketexan said:

Cheney is toast. She’s not willing to pledge her life to the cult leader. And being that that’s ALL the party is now...well, that won’t work out for her.

The conversion to a death cult is complete. It’s just that the last pieces are still settling after the fall.

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She is one of the last few with some semblance of a backbone (relatively, of course) and they are ousting her.  This doesn't bode well for anybody.

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I remember sitting in a history class once upon a time wondering how anybody could have supported a batshit crazy nut for President who had given a "Cross of Gold" speech.

Man, was I ever naive. Good times, good times.

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  On 5/1/2021 at 5:46 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

I’d be willing to bet a substantial percentage of my appendages that Cheney doesn’t make it out of the R primary in Wyoming, if she even wants to run again. 

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I believe she will run again, because her not running for reelection is her running away from Trumpism.  If she goes down, she goes down swinging, so to speak.

Never thought I'd see the day that the daughter of Dick Cheney, someone who voted with Trump more than Matt Gaetz did is not deemed "conservative" enough for today's GOP.  I don't care for her at all, but kudos to her for having bigger balls than anyone else in the GOP.

 

 

 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 7:05 PM, Francisco 2.0 said:

I believe she will run again, because her not running for reelection is her running away from Trumpism.  If she goes down, she goes down swinging, so to speak.

Never thought I'd see the day that the daughter of Dick Cheney, someone who voted with Trump more than Matt Gaetz did is not deemed "conservative" enough for today's GOP.  I don't care for her at all, but kudos to her for having bigger balls than anyone else in the GOP.

 

 

 

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This shows exactly what has happened. These voters have no clue that in terms of actual voting, she is closer to Dotard than Gaetz. All they know is she doesn’t yell and scream conspiracies and insanity, so she must not be on their side. 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 7:38 PM, Biff Tannen said:
This shows exactly what has happened. These voters have no clue that in terms of actual voting, she is closer to Dotard than Gaetz. All they know is she doesn’t yell and scream conspiracies and insanity, so she must not be on their side. 

That’s because there is no “policy” in the Trump GQP....only “content generation.” It’s just a loop of insane sound bites, and nothing more. Repeat them, and you’re a prophet...suggest anything else, and you’re a heretic to be excommunicated.
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  On 5/1/2021 at 7:38 PM, Biff Tannen said:

This shows exactly what has happened. These voters have no clue that in terms of actual voting, she is closer to Dotard than Gaetz. All they know is she doesn’t yell and scream conspiracies and insanity, so she must not be on their side. 

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You're assuming they would give the first scintilla of a shit about actual policy. They don't; they care about the spectacle. The show is the reason.

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  On 5/1/2021 at 7:51 PM, Brisketexan said:


That’s because there is no “policy” in the Trump GQP....only “content generation.” It’s just a loop of insane sound bites, and nothing more. Repeat them, and you’re a prophet...suggest anything else, and you’re a heretic to be excommunicated.

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GOP Rep Anthony Gonzalez basically said as much. Paraphrase: you can’t lead the GOP if every word out of your mouth is NOT a lie 

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This is only going to get worse across all parts of the country at all levels of government. Some of the worst people imaginable are going to be governing you. 
 

 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 10:07 PM, Dr. Teeth said:
This is only going to get worse across all parts of the country at all levels of government. Some of the worst people imaginable are going to be governing you. 
 
 

You ain’t wrong.

They’ve made a toxic cocktail of mentally unbalanced religious fundamentalist conspiracy theory utter fucking insanity....their core and EXCLUSIVE “belief system.” It is a completely insane death cult, and it will continue to get worse, because they’ve driven away anyone who could be a check on their insanity.
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  On 5/1/2021 at 11:08 PM, Jack Straw said:

100% correct 

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That is the issue. CNN had some R Senator who was also a doctor on to talk about his campaign to get people vaccinated. He was asked about certain crazy anti-vaccine statements from Ron Johnson and Tucker. He said he wasn’t going to get into that and just encouraged everyone to get vaccinated. That’s the main problem with the Republican Party. The good ones will not stand up to the bad ones. That is how evil wins. Bad people will always be in every party, but when the good ones no longer have the balls and common decency to stand for good, then we all lose. The R Senator could have easily said Ron Johnson and Tucker are mistaken, and vaccines are 100% safe. But no, he’s a pussy. 

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  On 5/1/2021 at 11:18 PM, Neonmoon said:

That is the issue. CNN had some R Senator who was also a doctor on to talk about his campaign to get people vaccinated. He was asked about certain crazy anti-vaccine statements from Ron Johnson and Tucker. He said he wasn’t going to get into that and just encouraged everyone to get vaccinated. That’s the main problem with the Republican Party. The good ones will not stand up to the bad ones. That is how evil wins. Bad people will always be in every party, but when the good ones no longer have the balls and common decency to stand for good, then we all lose. The R Senator could have easily said Ron Johnson and Tucker are mistaken, and vaccines are 100% safe. But no, he’s a pussy. 

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So they’re like cops.

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Sen. Mitt Romney was lustily booed by the more than 2,100 Republican delegates who packed into the Maverik Center on Saturday for the party’s state convention.

“Aren’t you embarrassed?” said Romney trying to deflect the chorus of catcalls that greeted him as he took the stage.

“I’m a man who says what he means, and you know I was not a fan of our last president’s character issues,” said Romney as delegates attempted to shout him down. Accusations that Romney was a “traitor” or “communist” flew from the crowd like so many poison darts.

The cacophony of disapproval only ended after outgoing party chair Derek Brown scolded delegates to “show respect” for Romney.

“You can boo all you like,” said Romney. “I’ve been a Republican all of my life. My dad was the governor of Michigan and I was the Republican nominee for president in 2012.”


Romney wasn’t the only recipient of boos from the crowd. Gov. Spencer Cox also caught a measure of disapproval.

“I know some of you hate me for some of the decisions I had to make,” said Cox as he took the stage to a smattering of boos from delegates upset with COVID-19 restrictions. “But I want to point out that some of you haven’t been paying attention.”

Cox touted the state’s rapidly improving economy following the COVID-related downturn, noting Utah was one of two states to see net job growth during the pandemic. He also said the state did not go as far as some other states with virus-related restrictions.

“We banned government vaccine passports,” said Cox to cheers, referencing a bill passed during the 2021 Utah Legislature. But that bill only blocked the state government from requiring vaccines. Private businesses can still require vaccinations for customers.

“We’ve also had zero restrictions on religious gatherings since October, and after this school year ends, there won’t be any more masks in schools,” said Cox.

Sen. Mike Lee drew a standing ovation as he took the podium and, hand on his heart, he cheered delegates in attendance “for taking action! Thank you!,” he said, calling their presence “an act of faith in the future.”

In a hardline speech, he blasted Democrats and invoked the U.S. Constitution and Founding Fathers, whom he praised for constraining government power on behalf of the people. He underscored their guarantees of unfettered gun ownership and limited intrusion in the lives of private citizens.

Quoting George Washington, Lee said U.S. exceptionalism rested in faith in its citizenry, not the government. “It means freedom,” he said, adding that Democrats hated Republicans and decrying their new proposals under the Biden administration.

“Their whole agenda is wrapped up around one idea,” Lee said, “unquestionable trust in government.”


He also assailed proposals to increase the number of judges on the U.S. Supreme Court as “a bone-headed idea,” saying it “would destroy judicial independence.” New Democratic efforts to reform U.S. elections, Lee added said, were a move “to destroy local control.”

“There are some truths we can never betray,” Lee told the crowd. “We are the stewards of our own destiny.” He said Biden did not share that view.

“He wants us dependent on government,” Lee said, adding the president also wanted “to extend lockdowns. We want to end them!” The senator quipped that the Centers for Disease Control — responsible for guiding the nation’s health policies during the pandemic — “was less about disease and more about control.”

Lt. Gov. Deidre Henderson, too, underscored a perceived threat from Washington to Utah values, and she accused Biden of jeopardizing the state’s energy sector with recent limits on development on public lands. Henderson said the Democratic-controlled Congress wanted to raise taxes irresponsibly and that it had thrown trillions in pandemic relief funds at the states during the health crisis.

“We all know there’s nothing more expensive than free money,” she said.


And like other speakers, she urged party members to put aside divisions. “We are at a crossroads,” she said. “There is much at stake.”

Congressman Chris Stewart called the Biden administration’s approach “radical socialism,” criticizing its leaders — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, he said “kind of sucks” — and he singled out the New Green Deal, proposed in some Democratic circles to address the climate change emergency.

“You’d think they’d run out of dumb ideas, but they don’t,” Stewart said, to cheers from the audience. He then accused that the media of intentional bias, echoing a common theme struck by former President Donald Trump.

“They are actively deceptive,” he said. “They lie to you.”

Congressman Burgess Owens offered deep gratitude for Utah’s focus on family, sense of volunteerism and respect for racial diversity. “We’re the least racist state in the country and the least racist country in the world,” he said.


“We do not apologize for who we are,” said Owens. “We love family, God, country and we respect women. That is who are.”

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Mike Huckabee criticizes Obamas for letting daughters hear Beyonce’s ‘mental poison’

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/mike-huckabee-criticizes-obamas-allowing-daughters-hear-beyonces-mental-poison
 

Josh Duggar: Mike Huckabee Defends the '19 Kids and Counting' Star

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Entertainment/josh-duggar-mike-huckabee-defends-19-kids-counting/story%3fid=31236959

 

 

Child molestation is forgivable. Listening to Beyoncé is not. These are the values of RW Konservative Khristian Kooks.

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One of the nation’s largest states is taking on Big Tech. 

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is expected to sign into law a bill that would prevent social media companies Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube from “deplatforming” politicians like former President Donald Trump from their platforms.

The bill was approved Thursday by the Republican-controlled state legislature.

It orders social media companies to publish standards with detailed definitions of when someone would be censored or blocked and makes companies subject to as much as $250,000 daily fines for deplatforming a Florida candidate. The bill also requires a social media company to notify users within seven days that they could be censored, giving them time to correct the posting.

Republican lawmakers in Florida say legislation is needed to curb the influence the nation’s leading social media companies have over the national conversation. 

 

"What this bill is about is sending a loud message to Silicon Valley that they are not the absolute arbiters of truth," state Rep. John Snyder, a Republican from the Port St. Lucie area, said Wednesday, according to NBC News.

 


"What this bill does is send a loud message that the Constitution does not have an asterisk that says only certain speech is free and protected," he said. 

The legislation is likely to face industry opposition. Trade group NetChoice says the bill violates free speech protections. 

“This bill abandons conservative values, violates the First Amendment, and would force websites to host antisemitic, racist, and hateful content. Content moderation is crucial to an internet that is safe and valuable for families and Floridian small businesses, but this bill would undermine this important ecosystem,” Carl Szabo, vice-president and general counsel of trade group NetChoice, said in a statement to USA TODAY. 


Szabo also argues that the legislation would only make it more difficult for conservatives to get their voices heard. 

He told Florida lawmakers earlier this month that “conservative speech has never been stronger.”

“No longer limited to a handful of newspapers or networks, conservative messages can now reach billions of people across multiple social media platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Gab, Parler, Rumble, and MeWe,” Szabo said. “We’ve seen the rise of conservative voices without having to beg for an Op-Ed in the Washington Post or New York Times, or a speaking slot on CNN. Social networks allow conservative voices to easily find conservative viewers.”


Conservatives have intensified attacks on social media companies after the ejection of Trump and other conservatives following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

DeSantis, a Republican and a Trump ally, has condemned the “oligarchs in Silicon Valley” for deplatforming Trump and other conservatives.

Without citing evidence, DeSantis said Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are using their size, advertising power and global reach to influence thought and play favorites – being tougher on those who comment from the political right than left.

DeSantis revived his criticism recently after a roundtable he held in March was taken down from YouTube because the governor and scientists he invited were accused of airing COVID-19 misinformation.

If conservatives want to remain on social media platforms, they should follow the rules, State Rep. Carlos Guillermo Smith, an Orlando area Democrat, told NBC News.

"There's already a solution to deplatforming candidates on social media: Stop trafficking in conspiracy theories. That's the solution. Stop pushing misinformation if you're a candidate or an incumbent elected official. Stop retweeting QAnon. Stop lying on social media," Smith said. 

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