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On 7/16/2021 at 11:10 AM, Ojo Rojo said:

I would just like to put this down for posterity.  Trump World made up false allegations of election fraud.  Complete, utter, total lies and fabrications with absolutely no proof and, in fact, every legal case raising election fraud has been laughed out of court.  Now, based on these same demonstrably false voter fraud allegations, Republicans nationwide are attempting to create or change laws regulating voting to suppress Democratic votes.  As a "response" to voter fraud that never happened!!!  Fucking maddening.

This is our concern dude. 

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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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On 7/12/2021 at 8:06 AM, Mo Horn said:

Might as well cancel all those science classes in school then. 

I don't believe I have ever seen a fundagelical preacher wearing a Roman collar before.

Ah, well, he is one of those fundagelical Cathoholics.  James Altman.

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I'm going to spoiler the majority of this but holy shit, some of the people running to flip the House are just the worst of the worst. It's a long thread, but scroll down to the bottom and catch her pic with Don Jr's girlfriend. I mean neo-Nazis, the Italian mafia, and the Trumps. She just lines up to be a real peach of a replacement for Ocasio Cortez.

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I'm going to spoiler the majority of this but holy shit, some of the people running to flip the House are just the worst of the worst. It's a long thread, but scroll down to the bottom and catch her pic with Don Jr's girlfriend. I mean neo-Nazis, the Italian mafia, and the Trumps. She just lines up to be a real peach of a replacement for Ocasio Cortez.
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Well, looks like AOC will be safe.
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I'm going to spoiler the majority of this but holy shit, some of the people running to flip the House are just the worst of the worst. It's a long thread, but scroll down to the bottom and catch her pic with Don Jr's girlfriend. I mean neo-Nazis, the Italian mafia, and the Trumps. She just lines up to be a real peach of a replacement for Ocasio Cortez.

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Is he a cyborg with that middle finger pic?

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57 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I don't believe I have ever seen a fundagelical preacher wearing a Roman collar before.

Ah, well, he is one of those fundagelical Cathoholics.  James Altman.


Ah, one of the benefits of a functioning episcopacy.

Altman was officially removed from his pastoral role by the Diocese of La Crosse last week after he delivered a slew of controversial messages in the past year, including anti-vaccine rhetoric…

…Bishop William Patrick Callahan issued a decree immediately removing Altman as leader of St. James the Less Church on La Crosse’s North Side, and barred him from “exercising the function of pastor,” which he appears to have violated by giving the prayer at CPAC.

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Bishop William Patrick Callahan issued a decree immediately removing Altman as leader of St. James the Less Church on La Crosse’s North Side, and barred him from “exercising the function of pastor,” which he appears to have violated by giving the prayer at CPAC.

St James the Less? WTF? (St James the Other has a certain ring to it).

CPAC praying with barred priests sounds correct, though.

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Not sure where to put this but saw this jewel today. Trump using one of his minion to post his insane messages while still using the presidential seal. Someone might tell him it’s “Duel in the Sun” NOT “Dual in the Sun” idiot.

Says he’s a many times club champion LMAO, how deep does his delusion go? Try Marianas Trench deep.

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More on that stupid ass Maga Freedom phone; apparently, because they fucked up, some people have been able to stack coupon codes and get the phone for free, essentially.  

 

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/the-maga-targeted-freedom-phone-has-a-breathtaking-amount-of-red-flags/

 

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"Nobody elected Mark [Zuckerberg] or Jack [Dorsey] to be the arbiters of truth in America," declares a man over a chorus of triumphant horns. "Yet they still thought it was OK to ban a sitting president from their platforms. If they censor the president, they'll censor anyone. Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg censored MLK or Abraham Lincoln. The course of history would have been altered forever!"

That's the sales pitch for the "Freedom Phone," a $500 smartphone aimed at the MAGA crowd. Just as we saw with Gab, Parler, and Voat, the Freedom Phone is the latest attempt to build an alternate tech platform for right-wingers, but this time with a smartphone instead of social media. When the phone was announced back in March, its tagline was "a phone made for conservatives, by conservatives." The device is being hawked by Erik Finman, the self-described "world's youngest bitcoin millionaire." The phone is supposed to ship in August.

 

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The Freedom Phone's feature set is about what you would expect. The company (which seems to also be called "Freedom Phone") claims to have made an "uncensorable app store" that won't ban Gab and Parler the way Google and Apple did. "FreedomOS" is a "free-speech first" operating system that the company claims to have developed, and it says the hardware is "comparable to the best smartphones on the market." Based on the information that Freedom Phone has released so far, almost none of that seems to be true.

The phone has so many red flags that it's difficult to know where to start. The website lists almost no information about the device itself. There's the name, a picture, and a price, but there's no spec sheet of any kind. This is a $500 phone, and its website gives you no indication of what you're actually buying. The front page of the website looks normal, but every button that should say something like "learn more" and link to more information instead says, "Buy it now." There are 10 "buy it now" links placed all over the front of the website—and almost no important information about the phone. Plenty of manufacturers publish incomplete teaser pages for upcoming phones, but they don't collect the full retail price from customers without providing detailed spec information first.

 

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Finman talked to The Daily Beast about the phone and admitted that his supposedly patriotic device was manufactured by Umidigi, a Chinese tech company. Our best guess is that the phone is a rebranded Umidigi A9 Pro, which you can buy for about $120. Without a spec list, which just about every other smartphone manufacturer on Earth provides, we're left with the impression that the hardware doesn't match the price tag.

Anyone buying a Freedom Phone is basically doing it sight unseen. You'd better really trust this upstart phone manufacturer because if you don't like what you receive, you're out of luck. The FAQ states, "If the device is already opened, we do not offer returns at this time." Other manufacturers stand behind their products.

 

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The “uncensorable app store” is... the Play Store?

Calling up some turnkey manufacturers in China and having them produce a phone isn't a ton of work, but running your own app store is significantly more difficult. You need an account system, servers, and a way for developers to upload apps. You also need to keep the ecosystem running for years. The Freedom Phone company claims it will do that, saying, "We built our own app store that is completely uncensored. If an app you love has been banned from the mainstream app stores, you can still download it on ours because we don't ban apps, period."

You don't ban apps, period? Even if they contain malware, porn, or illegal content?

And while the Freedom Phone company provides almost no information about the device, various conservative Internet personalities have posted hands-on videos of the phone, and it does not look like the Freedom Phone company has built an app store at all.

As pointed out by XDA's Mishaal Rahman on Twitter, the phone's "PatriApp" Store appears to be no more than a rebranded Aurora Store, an open source client for the Play Store. This isn't an alternative app store like F-Droid or the Amazon App Store—Aurora connects to Google's Play Store servers and is the Play Store app catalog; it just uses an alternate client. Sure enough, videos like this one show that the app store has all the mainstream Google Play apps you would expect, like YouTube, Google Photos, Instagram, Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, Snapchat, and more. It would be possible to rig up the open source Aurora client to connect to something other than the Google app store, but the presence of so many major app vendors indicates that the Freedom Phone is simply piping in the Play Store. The only other (much less likely) explanation is piracy.

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The video presenters don't seem to understand that they're looking at the Play Store, and they all claim they're using the "uncensorable" Freedom Phone app store. None of the spokespeople have shown how to download a banned app from the supposedly uncensored store. One reason Freedom Phone can promise not to censor anything is that it doesn't control the Play Store.

As far as getting "censored" apps onto the Freedom Phone, the plan seems to be to preload them. The phone ships with apps for right-wing outlets and services like Newsmax, OANN, Parler, and Rumble. You won't be able to update these apps through the Aurora Play Store client, but if they're just web links, that probably doesn't matter.

Finman says the "FreedomOS" operating system is "our own blend of AOSP, LineageOS, GrapheneOS, and our personal development as well." FreedomOS certainly seems to have cribbed most of the apps and artwork from LineageOS, the Android community's biggest open source Android distribution. You'll also spot microG, which is a Google Play Services replacement for Google-less phones. Normally, Google's Android phones run many services through Google, like location, push messaging, and more; the client for those features is the proprietary Play Services. MicroG is a reimplementation of these APIs and can pipe them into a different service for something like /e/ OS, which provides its own cloud servers. It's not clear what's going on with the Freedom Phone. It has the Play Store and can download Google apps. Is there an alternative cloud service?

 

Plenty of payment problems

Watching the Freedom Phone website over the past few days has been a thrill. The company has continually changed what payment processors are available and has modified its checkout flow several times. Digging through Archive.org and comparing the website launch payment list to the current one tells an interesting story. Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo, PayPal, Discover, and several other payment solutions were supported, but now the site only accepts Amazon Pay or Shopify's normal checkout procedure.

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For some reason, the site briefly shifted its entire checkout process from Shopify to WooCommerce Monday night (H/T @relationsatwork), and while Shopify was set up to accept only a single discount code, WooCommerce was not. Myriad conservative personalities are pushing this phone with custom $50 discount codes, and by using a few easy-to-guess ones (MAGA, Trump2024, etc.), some clever shoppers were able to do some extreme couponing to get the $500 phone processed for $0, with only the $20 shipping-and-handling fee charged to their cards.

 

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It's hard to believe the company will actually ship the phones for that price, but it did process a few $20 orders (including ours). If the phone shows up, we'll let you know.

 

 

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A Montana state senator pulled over for minor traffic offenses really isn't a story.  But the mentality that he is above the law isn't.

 

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Montana Senate President Pro Tempore Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, has been charged with three misdemeanors, including obstruction of a peace officer, after he was pulled over for speeding in a construction zone in May. The officer reported a verbal altercation with Ellsworth in which the senator claimed he was exempt from arrest because he was a lawmaker traveling for legislative business.

 

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According to the charging document, Ellsworth was pulled over at 10:20 p.m. on Sunday, May 23, after a Montana Highway Patrol officer’s radar clocked him driving 88 mph in a 55 mph zone. No workers were present at the time.

The highway where the stop occurred runs between Townsend and Helena. When stopped, Ellsworth told the state trooper he had spent the night in Bozeman and was driving to a Legislative Council meeting scheduled for the following morning in Helena. Ellsworth displayed his legislative identification to the officer.

 

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The charging document says the officer returned to her vehicle to run a check on Ellsworths’ vehicle, which had plates issued from a car dealership, and print him a warning for excessive speed. As described in the complaint, Ellsworth then got out of his vehicle and approached the officer’s car against the trooper’s instructions, and was “mumbling something that could not be understood.”

 

 

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Indicating that he had pulled up the Montana Constitution on his phone, Ellsworth then told the officer that he needed to be released, citing a provision that exempts legislators from arrest “during attendance at sessions of the Legislature and in going to and returning therefrom.” 

The 67th Legislature adjourned April 29, roughly a month before Ellsworth was pulled over.

The officer clarified that Ellsworth was in transit to Helena, less than half an hour from where the stop occurred, for a meeting that began the following morning. Ellsworth agreed and continued to paraphrase the relevant section of the Constitution, even as the officer instructed him to step back and return to his car. 

 

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According to a transcript of the exchange included in the charging document, Ellsworth then suggested he would call Attorney General Austin Knudsen. The Department of Justice, run by the attorney general, oversees the Montana Highway Patrol.

“If you want me to call the Attorney General —” Ellsworth said.

“Go ahead and call him,” the officer responded. “Back to your car now.”

“I would be happy to,” Ellsworth said. “I suggest you call your boss.” 

 

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Ellsworth then got out of his vehicle and approached the officer’s car against the trooper’s instructions, and was “mumbling something that could not be understood.”

Wonder how this part would have worked out if the driver was a young minority?

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

The officer reported a verbal altercation with Ellsworth in which the senator claimed he was exempt from arrest because he was a lawmaker traveling for legislative business.

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52 minutes ago, Pancho said:

 

I remember an America where such a blatant racist statement by a government official would be shocking.  This doesn't shock or surprise me in the slightest.  I guess it's good its all out in the open now and not under a veneer of civility.  

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2 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

I remember an America where such a blatant racist statement by a government official would be shocking.  This doesn't shock or surprise me in the slightest.  I guess it's good its all out in the open now and not under a veneer of civility.  

Political correctness has fallen out of fashion. Now you can again say what you’re actually thinking out loud.

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10 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

The whole saying it out loud part has greatly simplified my process of choosing who I want to associate with.  So I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

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Tarrant, Alabama city councilman Tommy Bryant made the remark after someone in the audience confronted him about his wife using the n-word on Facebook.

 

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5 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

There is apparently a "white" power struggle between the new black mayor and the white ex-police chief.  

grrr.

https://www.bamapolitics.com/85318/tarrant-al-councilman-tommy-bryant-do-we-have-a-house-n-in-here/

“Do we have a house n*****r in here? Do we? Do we? Will she please stand up?” Bryant said.

Just before Bryant made that comment, a member of the public questioned him about his wife using the same slur on social media, Bama Politics reported.

“The video speaks for itself,” said Mayor Wayman Newton, who is Black, per the Daily Beast.

Bryant accused Newton of using the term previously to describe Freeman and said he repeated it to amplify the gravity of it, AL.com reported.

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Newton said the opposition reached its apex last week, when Dennis Reno, the white former chief of police in Tarrant, accused the mayor of assaulting him during a conversation in Newton’s office a day after his swearing-in back in November.

 

During the meeting, Newton said, he confronted Reno—who was still chief at the time—over what the mayor claimed was a longstanding practice of not hiring Black police officers in the city. He said Reno told him he hadn’t hired Black officers because they weren’t qualified, and couldn’t be trusted to police their own. The conversation evolved into a shouting match, Newton said.

“At a certain point, I had to remind him that I was the mayor and kicked him out of my office

Tensions have simmered between Bryant and Newton, Bama Politics noted. The Daily Beast also reported a “power struggle” between Newton and the white ex-police chief, Dennis Reno.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/tarrant-alabama-mayor-wayman-newton-accused-of-assault-by-ex-police-chief-dennis-reno

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38 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

There is no quiet part anymore. 

There is no quiet part.

There are no "rules."

There are no actual objective facts.

There is no bottom.

This is the order of the day in GQP America.

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And one good thing you can say about Dick Cheney is that he departed from party ideology and supported gay marriage because it happened to affect someone he cares about. It shouldn’t require that. 

He was just a self serving asshole. He outed Plame’s husband, possibly compromising field assets because he was a petulant shit.
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1 hour ago, washparkhorn said:

During the meeting, Newton said, he confronted Reno—who was still chief at the time—over what the mayor claimed was a longstanding practice of not hiring Black police officers in the city. He said Reno told him he hadn’t hired Black officers because they weren’t qualified, and couldn’t be trusted to police their own. The conversation evolved into a shouting match, Newton said.

Yeah, all the white police officers are super fucking qualified and if anything, they spend too much time policing their own. Their only weakness is that sometimes they just work too hard.

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4 hours ago, Ojo Rojo said:

This feels like a situation where I need more context because it just can't possibly be that simple.  But then again, maybe it is.

Somebody confronted Bryant over his wife using the n-word on Facebook.

Bryant responds with his "do we have a house n-word" comment.

Bryant later claims that he was just repeating what Newton, the mayor, who is Black and a Republican, said in private.

The context: Bryant is Republican, old, and white (the trifecta), and said it openly at a public city council meeting in Alabama.

Doesn't really matter what the backstory is. Newton could have been dropping the word left and right behind closed doors, but Bryant dropped it in full view of the camera.

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