The GQP: Trumpist Death Cult

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,391]

I've been told that arguments can occur at strip clubs at 2:15am when the credit card bill is presented. 

[SydneyCarton 47,809]

19 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

“Straight White men built the roads we drive on, the buildings where we live, and the ones that fought and declared independence from the tyranny of the British for us to have freedom and the pursuit of happiness,” Gomez said. “To anyone that does not like America, GTFO [get the f*** out].”


It's funny that she should say this, since the road in front of my house was redone over the last couple of months and all I saw was Hispanics doing almost 100% of the manual labor and women holding the go/stop flags at the end of the street on both ends and at least one of the supervisors was African American.  I didn't question them on their sexual orientation. 


 

Shit dude, you don't even have to go that far. See bolded.

No one tell her who built the railroads. 

Edited June 21 by SydneyCarton

[Beantown Express 2.0 6,531]

38 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

No one tell her who built the railroads. 

It was these guys, right?

 

 

[C-Man 26,992]

1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

 

The Daily Mail story doesn't really add much info (shocker): https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13552267/republicans-stripper-arrested-neil-friske-michigan.html

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A Republican lawmaker from northern Michigan was arrested in the early hours of Thursday morning after police responded to reports of a man with a gun and possible shots fired.

Neil Friske, 62, has a record as a hardline conservative and has put faith and family at the heart of his campaign to be reelected to the state House of Representatives. 

He was arrested after chasing an adult dancer following a disagreement, according to the Michigan Information and Research Service, which covers the state capitol.

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His campaign quickly issued a bizarre statement suggesting the case was politically motivated.  

'As many of us know, Rep Friske is always exercising his Second Amendment right,' it said. 

'We do not have any details, besides what the media sourced, oddly before anyone of us knew anything.

'It is highly suspect considering the timing of this situation.'

It went on to say the arrest came just before absentee ballot papers were released and days after an unknown phone number conducted polling on Friske's race against an 'opponent with deep state ties.' 

'We ask everyone for prayers and to stay tuned for updates directly from this campaign or Representative Friske himself,' it said.

'Thank you for the outpouring of concern and unwavering support we have received this morning. Clearly, Rep. Friske is over the target in this race.'

A request for comment from his campaign was not immediately returned.

'Around 2:45 a.m. on 6/20/24, members of the Lansing Police Department were dispatched to the 2100 block of Forest Rd for a report of a male with a gun, as well as possible shots that were fired,' said police spokesperson Jordan Gulkis.

'Our officers quickly responded and made contact with all the parties involved. An accused was arrested for a felony-level offense.'

Gulkis added that the investigation continued and evidence would be presented to prosecutors for possible charges on Friday. 

Property records show he was arrested close to a condo he owns, according to the Detroit news. 

About 40 minutes after police said Friske was arrested, two posts appeared on his X account, discussing legislation banning pornography produced by A.I. without the consent of people in the image. 

'I'm not going to cave to the pressure of special interest. I'm not afraid of the false accusations, like 'Friske is for AI Porn' when a bill denies THE PEOPLE their rights to properly defend themselves,' his account posted at 3:25am, along with a follow-up.

Friske is one of the most hardline conservatives in the House. He is a member of the Freedom Caucus, which lines up against the vast majority of legislation brought before them in the Democratic-led legislature. 

 

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1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

 

So an old buddy of mine that lives in the Yooper in his district, said he fired the weapon between his house and Deja Vu's strip club.  But is unsure, as are authorities if she was running from his house back to the club (like some sort of door-dash champagne room situation.  Or he was trying to bring her from the club back to his house and things went sideways.  Even a pro-gun guy like this wouldn't be dumb enough at the start of the night to be running for re-election and carry a handgun into a liquor-licensed bar knowing he'd be grabbing ass and chugging bass.  

So couldn't help myself, called his office.  Obviously he's not in today.  Asked the Staffer what happened, he said he couldn't comment on it.  Asked where I was from, so I used my buddy's town on Drummond Island in the Yooper.  He asks for my info to call me back.  didn't do it, but left him with something to think about.  "We thank Rep. Friske for his service to our district.  He's the biggest tragedy to happen to the Yooper since the Edmund Fitzgerald" and hung up.  Now that dipshit has to walk around the Capitol asking people who "Edmund Fitzgerald" is, and gonna get a lot of weird looks---as if he's not already having a tough week.  I had a new high fiber cereal this morning for breakfast so I had some spare time.

[C-Man 26,992]

We love 'Welcome to Wrexham.' This would be another positive for Wales: https://studyfinds.org/wales-first-country-to-criminalize-politicians-who-lie/

Wales could become first country to criminalize politicians who lie

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Trust and confidence in UK politics and the election system have never been lower. One of the central reasons for this breakdown in trust is the widespread popular belief that some politicians have made a practice of lying to the public. Research published in 2022 showed the British public overwhelmingly wanted lying politicians to face consequences. And while the UK’s general election is grabbing the headlines, a proposal in Wales’ Senedd (Welsh parliament) is seeking to address this issue by introducing new legislation that would criminalize politicians who lie.

If passed, Wales would become the first country in the world to introduce criminal sanctions for lying politicians.

The proposals are being led by the former leader of Plaid Cymru, Adam Price, who has described a “credibility gap” in UK politics as a “gaping chasm.” Price has pushed for such changes since the mid-2000s when he campaigned for the impeachment of Tony Blair over the war in Iraq.

Price tried and failed to introduce an offense for politicians who lie when laws were passed in May expanding the size of the Senedd. But a cross-party committee has now voted in favor of Price’s proposals, and they are being considered for incorporation into the new elections and elected bodies (Wales) bill instead.

Under the proposals, it would be a criminal offense for a member of the Senedd, or a candidate for election to the Senedd, to wilfully, or with intent to mislead, make or publish a statement that is known to be false or deceptive. Proceedings would have to be brought within six months from the date on which the statement was made.

It would be considered a defence if it could be “reasonably inferred” to be a statement of opinion, or if it were retracted with an apology within 14 days. Being prosecuted for such a law would disqualify a person from being a Senedd member.

The proposals are not yet law, and the bill has further debate stages yet to go. Price’s amendment is supported by Plaid Cymru, the Welsh Conservatives and the Welsh Liberal Democrats.

But so far the amendment does not have the support of the Welsh Labour government and ministers may attempt to have it removed. The Welsh counsel general (similar to the UK government’s attorney general), Mick Antoniw, has said he supports the “general principle,” but is concerned that the amendment “amounts to little more than bad and ineffective law.”

There are also broader concerns about whether the Senedd has the ability under Wales’s devolved powers to make such a law. While Wales can pass laws in respect of the operations of the Senedd, legally speaking there are problems when it comes to straying into the realms of criminal offenses. In this instance it is unlikely the Senedd would be able to expressly create a criminal offense such as this.

The Senedd may find itself in territory akin to what Scotland experienced when the UK government blocked Scotland’s gender recognition bill. In January 2023, the UK government invoked section 35 of the Scotland Act to veto proposals designed to make it easier for people to change their legal gender, on the grounds they would affect equality law for the whole of the UK.

Is such a law necessary?

The Welsh ministerial code already exists and is meant to uphold the standards of constitutional and personal conduct of ministers. The Senedd has an independent standards commissioner, who is an “impartial provider of advice on any matter of principle relating to conduct of members of the Senedd.”

But the commissioner doesn’t deal with complaints relating to the actions of the Welsh government and ministers carrying out Welsh government business. Nor do they investigate issues relating to the performance of Senedd members. The standards commissioner’s website states that this is because: “Issues relating to performance of the member of the Senedd in his or her role is essentially a matter for the electorate at the ballot box.”

There are also the Nolan principles which apply to those elected or appointed to public office across the UK. They include the principles of “integrity,” “openness,” and “honesty.”

The problem with the current regime is a lack of enforcement. Beyond accountability to the electorate during elections, there are very few repercussions when politicians mislead the public. This is helping to fuel a mistrust of politicians, and casting doubt over what can be believed.

Laws may be a stepping stone to restoring trust and facilitating enforceability in a different way, and with legal safeguards. In terms of standards, it would bring politicians more into line with what is expected from other professions, such as lawyers and doctors. Of course, members of these professions aren’t criminalized unless they explicitly break the law, but they are held to account if they fail to maintain certain standards and can be struck off as a result.

Politically speaking, while the Welsh government could seek to remove anti-lying amendments at future debates, that would do little to signal trust in those elected to public office. In fact, it could prove to be even more damaging.

This issue is likely to shine a spotlight on the constitutional devolved competence of the Senedd itself. But trust in politics is a UK-wide issue. While some politicians are trying to put a sticking plaster over the wound, the new UK government will need to work with all devolved administrations to take more significant steps to rebuild trust.

It’s a bleak indictment of democracy that a law reminding politicians not to lie is even being considered. But a culture change in politics is evidently needed.

 

[jimmyjazz 45,513]

5 minutes ago, C-Man said:

We love 'Welcome to Wrexham.'

Great show.  I've been hooked from the jump.  I'm glad they feature the women's team, too.

[Pato del Muerto 52,322]

1 hour ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

I didn't question them on their sexual orientation. 

Women on a construction crew?  C’mon man.  Men too actually, based on Trump’s favorite song. 

Edited June 21 by Pato del Muerto

[TexEx15 17,444]

On 6/19/2024 at 5:05 PM, atomheartbevo said:

Thankfully there’s an easier solution to dealing with them

 

I knew these guys looked familiar…

[TeeDubya 3,358]

Spoiler

 

Former swimmer?  I’d like for her to meet my team of swimmers…..

 

[pacman 7,309]

talk about not understanding the end game...

 

 

[Brisketexan 104,465]

9 minutes ago, pacman said:

talk about not understanding the end game...

100%.

They lap up the "oh no, you're one of the good ones" praise.....all the while being too stupid to realize that when the MAGAs have cemented their grip on power, there are no "good ones."  Shit, they'll turn on their fellow christo-fascist white supremacists for not being "loyal MAGA" enough.  They'll damn sure turn on your spic ass before then, Jorge.

[bolverk 29,360]

12 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

100%.

They lap up the "oh no, you're one of the good ones" praise.....all the while being too stupid to realize that when the MAGAs have cemented their grip on power, there are no "good ones."  Shit, they'll turn on their fellow christo-fascist white supremacists for not being "loyal MAGA" enough.  They'll damn sure turn on your spic ass before then, Jorge.

Exhibit A: Mike Pence

[Brisketexan 104,465]

3 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Exhibit A: Mike Pence

There's a thousand exhibits.  They can't wait to turn on and crucify any number of "RINOs," with the sole criterion for being a "RINO" being "anything demonstrating even the possibility of not having 100%, unquestioning loyalty of Our Lord God Trump."  And the funny thing is, that doesn't even need to be true -- they just need to say it is, and then crucify the person as an apostate.

[Horn Under a Bad Sign 20,342]

24 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

There's a thousand exhibits.  They can't wait to turn on and crucify any number of "RINOs," with the sole criterion for being a "RINO" being "anything demonstrating even the possibility of not having 100%, unquestioning loyalty of Our Lord God Trump."  And the funny thing is, that doesn't even need to be true -- they just need to say it is, and then crucify the person as an apostate.

Which is ironic, because their Lord God Trump doesn't hold any core beliefs, other than believing in the course of action that will make him the most money the quickest.  I mean, this is a man who his entire life was pro-choice. 

[Pescado_Rojo 19,327]

27 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

There's a thousand exhibits.  They can't wait to turn on and crucify any number of "RINOs," with the sole criterion for being a "RINO" being "anything demonstrating even the possibility of not having 100%, unquestioning loyalty of Our Lord God Trump."  And the funny thing is, that doesn't even need to be true -- they just need to say it is, and then crucify the person as an apostate.

When your entire movement is based on hate, you can't run out of people to hate. You have to feed the beast and find new people for your followers to blame for being behind in life, else they start blaming you. 

[Gatorubet 30,064]

2 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

When your entire movement is based on hate, you can't run out of people to hate. You have to feed the beast and find new people for your followers to blame for being behind in life, else they start blaming you. 

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

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5 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I've been told that arguments can occur at strip clubs at 2:15am when the credit card bill is presented. 

[tx 3 putt 76,159]

 

[Longhorn_Fan68 33,825]

god i hate his people sometimes

Edited June 21 by Longhorn_Fan68

[NeverMarryAStripper 21,780]

President Jefferson himself said it in 1802 in a letter to the Baptist Association of Danbury Connecticut

[Brisketexan 104,465]

3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

President Jefferson himself said it in 1802 in a letter to the Baptist Association of Danbury Connecticut

Jefferson?  Quoting and citing the EXACT text of the First Amendment's Establishment clause?

[Red Five 40,593]

Why, exactly, must the 10 Commandments be in every classroom? I'm a militant atheist and would be equally horrified at a proposal that all classrooms contain signs that say "There is no God". Or "Earl Campbell is your God now". Well ok maybe that would be acceptable.

[jimmyjazz 45,513]

"Sure, there's some words in there, but not THOSE EXACT words, so therefore the concept does not exist in 1A."

Jesus Christo, or something.

[Gap03 3,248]

Hearing Landry say that out loud, I'm now bracing for a new history lesson from Alito, Thomas and crew explaining why they're compelled to overturn centuries of 1st Amendment case law so that Y'all Qaeda can force their christofascist fairy tales down every kid's throat.  Lovely.  Feels like I'm overdue for some shooting range time ...

Updated: Furk.  I haven't been paying attention because apparently they've already started down this path with Bremerton.  

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Most significantly in 2022, the Supreme Court marked a change in how it will interpret Establishment Clause cases going forward. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the high court declared it had abandoned the Lemon test and instead, will interpret the Establishment Clause in “reference to historical practices and understandings.” In the majority opinion, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that that the lower courts had created a “vice between the Establishment Clause on one side and the Free Speech and Free Exercise Clauses on the other,” a conflict he associated with the Lemon test. Instead, he viewed the establishment and free exercise clauses as complementary and working together to decrease unnecessary government interference with religion. 

Establishment Clause | Separation of Church and State (mtsu.edu)

Prepare for more Calvinball ...  

Edited June 21 by Gap03

[Bozo_Casanova 26,232]

21 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

MAGA doesn’t have anything other than the idiot box feeding them lies, their own personal squandered life head start, and their laziness in not fact checking anything they hear with reality. 

Sure they do- the end of class mobility in the United States, and the likely permanently broken implicit promise to share equally in the value of productivity gains.
They are, rightly, furious and neither the traditional Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has offered anything other than bootstraps bullshit or sad jokes like “we’ll teach them to code.”

Edited June 21 by Bozo_Casanova

[Dnaguy 11,740]

7 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

“Straight White men built the roads we drive on, the buildings where we live, and the ones that fought and declared independence from the tyranny of the British for us to have freedom and the pursuit of happiness,” Gomez said. “To anyone that does not like America, GTFO [get the f*** out].”


It's funny that she should say this, since the road in front of my house was redone over the last couple of months and all I saw was Hispanics doing almost 100% of the manual labor and women holding the go/stop flags at the end of the street on both ends and at least one of the supervisors was African American.  I didn't question them on their sexual orientation. 


 

Not even the same argument or subject but the specious talk of England / British / revolution always makes me think of this Simpsons scene.

 

[RDCanecutter 26,239]

8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

And the icing on the cake?  As she eagerly plays the "straight white men are the only people who matter!" card....she has zero fucking awareness that when the purge comes, her spic ass is being shoved in a train car to be deported with the rest of us.  Leopards, faces, etc.

I'll be the judge of that, my esteemed tan amigo. We here at The Council of Thor suspect that she may have some spanking time to make up for her unladylike yapping, and then we will entertain suggestions from her as to why we should delay her deportation.

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[Pancho 44,359]

17 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45,478]

13 hours ago, jimmyjazz said:

relentless achiever,

Shit yeah, the achievers. 

[TwiceHorn 31,184]

14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah, that one in particular made me chuckle.  I haven't seen a road or construction crew in Texas in my entire life that was predominantly or even largely made up of "white men."  When I was a kid in SETX....outdoor hard working crews (construction, roofers, etc.) were mostly.....black.   Over the past few decades, that shifted to mostly (if not entirely) hispanic.  Fucking fantastic.

And the icing on the cake?  As she eagerly plays the "straight white men are the only people who matter!" card....she has zero fucking awareness that when the purge comes, her spic ass is being shoved in a train car to be deported with the rest of us.  Leopards, faces, etc.

She'll be a comfort woman until her shit gives out.

[Sbbruin 21,697]

These fucking people…

 

[Sawbonz 27,376]

15 hours ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

 

 

 

 

Actual name checks out

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

Wanted to get this posted before it gets old and I forget. I posted earlier in this or another thread about the one house with pro-Trump signs I pass on my 3 mile morning walk. I posted a pic that showed his “I miss the America I grew up in!” sign which stood next to his “Trump was right about everything - Wake up, America!” sign. Well, he did some rearranging a couple days ago. He had a bunch of Latino laborers over to shingle his roof. Lo and behold, the “Trump was right” sign had been removed.

Yesterday morning it was back again.

<sigh> Since I first posted that I only pass one house on my walk with Pro-Trump signs, this dude’s neighbor across the street hung this:

[Biff Tannen 45,478]

25 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Wanted to get this posted before it gets old and I forget. I posted earlier in this or another thread about the one house with pro-Trump signs I pass on my 3 mile morning walk. I posted a pic that showed his “I miss the America I grew up in!” sign which stood next to his “Trump was right about everything - Wake up, America!” sign. Well, he did some rearranging a couple days ago. He had a bunch of Latino laborers over to shingle his roof. Lo and behold, the “Trump was right” sign had been removed.

Yesterday morning it was back again.

<sigh> Since I first posted that I only pass one house on my walk with Pro-Trump signs, this dude’s neighbor across the street hung this:

Dude, you need to move. Or have the cops go by his place for a “wellness check”. Non-zero odds your neighbors have children locked in their basements. 

[Bullneck 18,976]

 It appears their actions angered some people . . .

 

[Sawbonz 27,376]

1 minute ago, Bullneck said:

 It appears their actions angered some people . . .

 

When I click the vid it sends me to twitter so I’m not watching. I don’t get the post. 

[Sawbonz 27,376]

17 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

There's a thousand exhibits.  They can't wait to turn on and crucify any number of "RINOs," with the sole criterion for being a "RINO" being "anything demonstrating even the possibility of not having 100%, unquestioning loyalty of Our Lord God Trump."  And the funny thing is, that doesn't even need to be true -- they just need to say it is, and then crucify the person as an apostate.

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

45 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Dude, you need to move. Or have the cops go by his place for a “wellness check”. Non-zero odds your neighbors have children locked in their basements. 

Fuck that. They should move. They’re in the minority here. It’s a very diverse community where I live. (Probably part of why the fascist dude misses the America he grew up in. He probably didn’t have a black family living next door back then.) Like I said, I’m only walking 3 miles but in all that distance these are the only outward expressions of Trumpism I see. Back when we had the special election to protect voting rights, and then the election to enshrine women’s reproductive rights in our Constitution, the signage was overwhelmingly in favor of the rights of voters and women and over much more territory than I cover in my morning walks.

[Biff Tannen 45,478]

19 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Fuck that. They should move. They’re in the minority here. It’s a very diverse community where I live. (Probably part of why the fascist dude misses the America he grew up in. He probably didn’t have a black family living next door back then.) Like I said, I’m only walking 3 miles but in all that distance these are the only outward expressions of Trumpism I see. Back when we had the special election to protect voting rights, and then the election to enshrine women’s reproductive rights in our Constitution, the signage was overwhelmingly in favor of the rights of voters and women and over much more territory than I cover in my morning walks.

This is actually the correct answer. Why should I move, they’re the ones who suck. 

48 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:

When I click the vid it sends me to twitter so I’m not watching. I don’t get the post. 

Same, but I read it as Covid was an excuse to become woke?  Makes total sense. 

[GenXer 2,776]

2 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

 I posted a pic that showed his “I miss the America I grew up in!” sign which stood next to his “Trump was right about everything - Wake up, America!” sign. 

 

Yesterday morning it was back again.

 

 

If my neighbors did this, I’d whip up a sign with something like this for like $20

 

[Snake Diggity 4,614]

1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

 It appears their actions angered some people . . .

 

From the replies: “I’m running out of places to shop.”  You’re getting close, fuckface.  LOOK INWARD.

[tx ind 6,996]

23 hours ago, YGIFS said:

So an old buddy of mine that lives in the Yooper in his district, said he fired the weapon between his house and Deja Vu's strip club.  But is unsure, as are authorities if she was running from his house back to the club (like some sort of door-dash champagne room situation.  Or he was trying to bring her from the club back to his house and things went sideways.  Even a pro-gun guy like this wouldn't be dumb enough at the start of the night to be running for re-election and carry a handgun into a liquor-licensed bar knowing he'd be grabbing ass and chugging bass.  

[jimmyjazz 45,513]

3 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

When I click the vid it sends me to twitter so I’m not watching. I don’t get the post. 

Tractor Supply Company embraces "woke" diversity and inclusion policies, and the MAGAts are now torn, because they used to love the company and they can no longer shop there.

[speed817 19,065]

4 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Wanted to get this posted before it gets old and I forget. I posted earlier in this or another thread about the one house with pro-Trump signs I pass on my 3 mile morning walk. I posted a pic that showed his “I miss the America I grew up in!” sign which stood next to his “Trump was right about everything - Wake up, America!” sign. Well, he did some rearranging a couple days ago. He had a bunch of Latino laborers over to shingle his roof. Lo and behold, the “Trump was right” sign had been removed.

Yesterday morning it was back again.

<sigh> Since I first posted that I only pass one house on my walk with Pro-Trump signs, this dude’s neighbor across the street hung this:

What's the address??? 😏

[tx 3 putt 76,159]

 

[WhatTheBuck 28,700]

29 minutes ago, speed817 said:

What's the address??? 😏

Take the neighbor’s address and add 1. They’re both on Davidson Run Dr. in Hilliard, OH. 

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3 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

When I click the vid it sends me to twitter so I’m not watching. I don’t get the post. 

1 hour ago, Snake Diggity said:

From the replies: “I’m running out of places to shop.”  You’re getting close, fuckface.  LOOK INWARD.

40 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

Tractor Supply Company embraces "woke" diversity and inclusion policies, and the MAGAts are now torn, because they used to love the company and they can no longer shop there.

Because we have free markets, Tractor Supply Company thought they’d work on increasing their market share by appealing to more people.  White Republicans are angry at them and threatening to boycott (they won’t). 

[Pancho 44,359]

They are the weakest most bitch ass group of people on the earth