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Pepper sprayed and beaten with batons, I would hope it's morphine.

 

Probably meth

 

Bowing to Trump? GOP brings leaders, donors to his backyard
By STEVE PEOPLES and JILL COLVIN
The Associated Press
April 8, 2021 at 9:23 pm
Updated April 8, 2021 at 9:43 pm

Bowing to Trump? GOP brings leaders, donors to his backyard

excerpt:

"But absent a consistent party message following Trump’s loss, a clear policy agenda or a coherent strategy to expand the GOP’s appeal, leading Republican elected officials and the RNC have increasingly embraced election fraud as a chief policy priority.

The lineup at the weekend gathering notably excludes any leading Republicans who have pushed back against Trump’s claims or supported his impeachment. Those who aren’t expected to appear include Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, No. 3 House Republican Liz Cheney, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney or Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan.

The gathering will instead feature Trump himself and a slew of candidates already positioning themselves for a 2024 presidential bid, assuming Trump himself does not run again. The potential White House contenders include Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton. Also scheduled to speak are House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio of Florida and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina."

 

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The RNC might want to exercise diligence so that it doesn't accidentally book a Four Seasons lawn mowing company across the street from a crematory.


Bowing to Trump? GOP brings leaders, donors to his backyard

excerpt:

"The RNC has booked the entire Four Seasons Resort on Palm Beach for the weekend gathering, and there will be donor events at Trump’s nearby Mar-a-Lago estate to raise money for groups focused on Trump’s political future and policy priorities."

 

Yeah, but the Republicans have always used election fraud to win elections.

 

Are we sure it's not the Four Seasons Total Landscaping again?

 

[QUOTE="egger, post: 9087531, member: 245541] "But absent a consistent party message following Trump’s loss, a clear policy agenda or a coherent strategy to expand the GOP’s appeal, leading Republican elected officials and the RNC have increasingly embraced election fraud as a chief policy priority."[/QUOTE]

You have to wonder if any Republican lawmakers realize the short-sightedness of this. Had they been successful in overturning the 2020 election, wouldn't it be tempting for whatever party loses the vote in the future to claim election fraud, putting the result to the purview of the courts?

Do the voters of both parties realize that doing this would negate their votes completely? In 2020, whether you voted for Biden, Trump or someone else, your vote would count for nothing because the losing party might challenge the vote and wind up tossing the election to authorities that would simply give the election to the candidate that put on a better case. You aren't voted in, instead you're awarded the presidency by a court. Sound great?

Your individual vote? Worthless. It wouldn't count. You went out and voted for nothing. Had the GOP succeeded in their 'chief policy agenda,' having citizens vote for president would become obsolete.

Is that what Republicans want for America? Is that the democracy they claim to love so much?

 

The porn stars will be competing nearby, and will have to get creative this year.

 

Wow

 

An actual billboard sign in Crestview, Florida...

 

Even better:

 

Here's another:

 

Article by U.S. senator Ben Sasse


QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within

excerpt:

"Eugene Goodman is an American hero. At a pivotal moment on January 6, the veteran United States Capitol Police officer single-handedly prevented untold bloodshed. Staring down an angry, advancing mob, he retreated up a marble staircase, calmly wielding his baton to delay his pursuers while calling out their position to his fellow officers. At the top of the steps, still alone and standing just a few yards from the chamber where senators and Vice President Mike Pence had been certifying the Electoral College’s vote, Goodman strategically lured dozens of the mayhem-minded away from an unguarded door to the Senate floor.

The leader of that flank of the mob, later identified by the FBI as Douglas Jensen, wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a red-white-and-blue Q—the insignia of the delusional QAnon conspiracy theory. Its supporters believe that a righteous Donald Trump is leading them in a historic quest to expose the U.S. government’s capture by a global network of cannibalistic pedophiles: not just “deep state” actors in the intelligence community, but Chief Justice John Roberts and a dozen-plus senators, including me. Now Trump’s own vice president is supposedly in on it, too. According to the FBI, Jensen “wanted to have his T-shirt seen on video so that ‘Q’ could ‘get the credit.’”"

 

Doug Jensen was arrested. His attorney has been negotiating a plea deal.


Doug Jensen, who was charged in U.S. Capitol riot, is in plea talks

excerpt:

"A Des Moines man charged with breaking into the U.S. Capitol and chasing a police officer during the Jan. 6 riots is in talks with prosecutors to plead guilty to at least some charges, according to Buzzfeed News.

The outlet tweeted on Thursday that the discussions were revealed during a status conference hearing for Douglas Austin Jensen in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Jensen’s attorney, Christopher Davis, declined a Des Moines Register request for comment, and a U.S. Department of Justice spokesperson did not immediately return calls or respond to emails seeking comment.

The report came as a federal judge signaled Thursday that plea agreements were forthcoming for some of the hundreds accused in the government’s far-reaching investigation into the riots.

In a hearing involving three Missouri defendants charged with illegal entry and disorderly conduct, U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich said she expected “plea offers would be extended in the near future” as part of the larger inquiry."

 

The “resign” side is missing some donkeys

 

QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within


excerpt:

"America’s loss of meaning

Our political sickness has a third cause. At least since World War II, sociologists and political scientists have been tracing the erosion of the institutions and habits that joined neighbors together in bonds of friendship and mutual responsibility. Little Leagues were not just pastimes; soup kitchens were not just service organizations; they were also venues in which people found shared purpose. Today, in many places, those bonds have been severed.

In 1922, G. K. Chesterton called America “a nation with the soul of a church.” But according to a recent study of dozens of countries, none has ditched religious belief faster since 2007 than the U.S. Without going into the causes, we can at least acknowledge one cost: For generations, most Americans understood themselves as children of a loving God, and all had a role to play in loving their neighbors. But today, many Americans have no role in any common story.

Conspiracy theories are a substitute. Support Donald Trump and you are not merely participating in a mundane political process—that’s boring. Rather, you are waging war on a global sex-trafficking conspiracy! No one should be surprised that QAnon has found a partner in the empty, hypocritical, made-for-TV deviant strain of evangelicalism that runs on dopey apocalypse-mongering. (I still consider myself an evangelical, even though so many of my nominal co-religionists have emptied the term of all historic and theological meaning.) A conspiracy theory offers its devotees a way of inserting themselves into a cosmic battle pitting good against evil. This sense of vocation that makes it dangerous is also precisely what makes it attractive in our era of isolated, alienated consumerism."

 

Pure propaganda of the worst kind. Conservatives equate everything with money, then play around with the numbers. The simple fact is, as all the money has floated to the top, the US has become the most nepotistic country in the world, while small town America is all but dead, and the younger generation abandoned fundamentalist services en mass, moving to more urban parts of the country. What he is not saying, is that the older generation is killing themselves and driving away their own children, who often wait to inherit their money.

Conservatives are demanding a scape goat, because they would rather die than admit hate is all they know anymore.