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Van Zant brothers write 'Sweet Home Alabama'-like song that honors Trump clone DeSantis.


Van Zant Brothers Write Song for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis - American Songwriter

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"Johnny Van Zant of Lynyrd Skynyrd and brother Donnie of 38 Special wrote a new song, “Sweet Florida,” for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

Born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, the Van Zant brothers said that DeSantis stands for everything that they believe in. “We got to thank Governor DeSantis for standing and believing for what he believes,” said Johnny Van Zant in an interview. “He’s been a great governor for us.”

In the lyrics to “Sweet Florida,” the Van Zant brothers reiterate their support for the Florida governor singing He stands up for what he believes / So don’t come down here trying to change things we’re doing all right in the Sunshine State / Stay out of our business / Leave our governor alone / Down in sweet, sweet Florida our governor is red, white and blue…he’s shooting us straight, telling us the truth."

 

U.S. Capitol Police opened a field office in Tampa to deal with all of the Trump rioters from that area.


In wake of January 6 riot, U.S. Capitol Police opens field office in Tampa

 

Article from June 2021 about Tampa area people charged in connection with Trump's insurrection.


3 more Bay Area residents charged in Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol

 

Trump rioter Joshua Doolin ran away from journalists outside a Tampa courthouse.

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Summary of Trump's rioters from Florida.


From 'Lectern Guy' to 'Proud Boys,' here's the status of the US Capitol rioters from Florida
It's been a year since a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol. Here's where prosecutors say their cases are now.
Author: 10 Tampa Bay
Published: 5:41 PM EST January 5, 2022
Updated: 2:45 PM EDT March 25, 2022

Floridians sentenced, arrested, wanted, 1 year after Capitol riot | wtsp.com

 

More cannon fodder for sketch comedy.

 

Trump holding the Bible upside down, almost reminds me of someone holding or presenting the crucifix upside down. I wonder if he was actually trying to send a totally different message? Then the perverted looking hugging and kissing the US flag….Somebody get this man some help!!!

 

Too late for that....

 

some, alright most, Floridians should be in the water. . . . .with the alligators.

 

Cruz on first anniversary of Trump's insurrecton at the Capitol.


Ted Cruz called Jan 6 riot a “terrorist attack,” now says he misspoke

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"On Thursday, Cruz said he asked to come on Carlson’s show, so he could better explain himself. Cruz said he understood why people were angry at his use of the word "terrorist" but insisted that he would never use the same word that "Democrats and the corporate media have so politicized" to describe the "patriots" that were at the Capitol that day to protest the results of the presidential election.

At the time of the breach, Cruz argued, he was asking for Congress to investigate potential voter fraud in accordance with the law.

"It would be ridiculous for me to be saying that the people standing up and protesting to follow the law were somehow terrorists," he said. "I was talking about people who commit violence against cops."

Democrats and the media, Cruz said, "are trying to paint everyone as a terrorist, and it’s a lie.""

 

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/ted-cruz-s-ties-trump-jan-6-are-worse-we-n1293872

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"According to the Post, Cruz and Trump began working on plans to undermine the election two days after Election Day, to the surprise of many of Cruz’s aides. Cruz spoke to Trump directly on the phone, acted as a Trump surrogate spreading 2020 disinformation on Fox News and pitched himself as a legal asset because of his experience working with George W. Bush’s campaign during the recount of the Florida vote in 2000. Among other things, Cruz agreed to represent Pennsylvania Republicans’ attempt to block certification of their state’s presidential results before the Supreme Court. (The Supreme Court didn’t end up taking the case.) And as Cruz backed a lawsuit arguing that Texas had the authority to throw out election results in several other battleground states, some of his advisers worried he was turning his back on his conservative federalist principles.

But perhaps the most shocking possibility raised by the Post’s reporting is the implication raised by Cruz and Eastman’s friendship. Cruz and Eastman met while clerking for then-U.S. Appeals Court Judge J. Michael Luttig nearly 30 years ago. Cruz’s plan calling for the Senate to delay the certification of the 2020 election results seemed to be running on a “parallel” track to Eastman’s legal memo."

 

Opinion | Ted Cruz's Jan. 6 ties are worse than we thought

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"When asked if he and Eastman had been in contact about challenging the election, Cruz issued a cagey statement that did not rule out the possibility. “Sen. Cruz has been friends with John Eastman since they clerked together in 1995,” a Cruz spokesperson told the Post. “To the best of his recollection, he did not read the Eastman memo until months after January 6, when it was publicly reported.” And when Eastman was asked by the Jan. 6 congressional committee about his communication with Cruz, he invoked the Fifth Amendment.

Cruz’s ideological commitments have long been secondary to his political ambition. While the Texas senator paints himself as a pure ideologue, he has abandoned and changed his positionson issues like immigration, foreign policy and surveillance out of concern that they could harm his presidential prospects. 0ne of Trump’s fiercest critics during the 2016 primary season, Cruz refused to endorse Trump’s nomination at the Republican convention, to boos from the crowd. But he has since become not just a staunch but an effective Trump ally.

Cruz's eagerness to shift positions based on how the wind is blowing extends to Jan. 6 itself. On that day, Cruz questioned the legitimacy of the election on the Senate floor. The very next day, Cruz tried to disassociate himself from Trump, sensing that perhaps his efforts to challenge the election had backfired. "I think, yesterday in particular, the president's language and rhetoric crossed the line and it was reckless," Cruz told a reporter on Jan. 7, with an entirely straight face. "I disagree with it, and I have disagreed with the president's language and rhetoric for the last four years.""

 

Actually it's not a lie, and you are one of them.

 

A former Trump official said 'you knew your day was wrecked' when Ginni Thomas showed up at the White House, report says

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"A former Trump White House official said "you knew your day was wrecked" when Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, showed up at the White House to meet with President Donald Trump, according to a new report from the Daily Beast published on Friday.

Ginni Thomas, a longtime, outspoken activist who participated in the Tea Party movement, leveraged her prominence in conservative circles to get Trump's ear, flatter him, and pitch him on potential hires for the White House and Trump administration, the Beast and other outlets have reported.

But before lobbying a top White House official on ways to overturn the 2020 election, Thomas was known for dropping by the White House and whipping Trump into a frenzy by dishing on who she believed to be disloyal and a "Never Trumper," former aides told the Beast."

 

Lmfao!!

 

House Republicans Tire of Madison Cawthorn's Antics. Some in His District Have, Too.

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"Cawthorn, 26, called President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine “a thug” and his country “incredibly evil” as Russian tanks rolled in. The congressman has made headlines for bringing a knife to a school board meeting and bringing a gun through airport security. Cawthorn, who has used a wheelchair since being injured in an automobile accident when he was 18, was charged this month with driving with a revoked license. He has a May court date on the misdemeanor count that carries jail time.

Unlike some other far-right members of Congress — including Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, both of whom booed President Joe Biden during his State of the Union speech — Cawthorn is also saddled with a yearslong series of hyperbolic claims about his personal life, raising questions about his honesty.

One of those claims finally set off his fellow House Republicans this week: a bizarre assertion he made on a conservative YouTube channel that people he “looked up to” in Washington — presumably Republican lawmakers — invited him to orgies and used cocaine. On Tuesday, upset House Republicans at a closed-door meeting questioned the remarks, and Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California, the House minority leader, told colleagues that he would speak to Cawthorn."

 

Trump at a rally in Michigan claiming that he won a state that he lost by 154,000 votes.


‘We need to works these polls’: Trump stumps for candidates who support the big lie

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"Trump was stumping for Matthew DePerno, who is seeking the GOP nomination for attorney general, and Kristina Karamo, a Republican running to be Michigan secretary of state, the state’s chief election official. Both are seeking to earn the Republican nomination at the party’s convention in the state this month.

Neither has any prior political experience and their political rise stems almost entirely from their efforts to spread misinformation about the 2020 election. Joe Biden defeated Trump in the state by just over 154,000 votes in 2020, and Trump’s efforts to throw out the election. If Karamo and DePerno were elected this fall, it would place two Trump allies in key positions from which they could potentially do what he could not in 2020: overturn an election result."

 

‘We need to works these polls’: Trump stumps for candidates who support the big lie

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"Karamo is a part-time community college professor who became a celebrity in Republican circles after claiming she witnessed fraud on election night while observing ballots being counted in Detroit. Those claims have been debunked, but she has nonetheless catapulted to the front of the Republican field in the secretary of state race. She joined an unsuccessful Michigan’s 2020 election from being certified and sought to intervene in an unsuccessful effort at the US supreme court seeking to overturn election results in key swing states. She has called public schools “government indoctrination camps” and suggested those who attacked the US capitol on 6 January were antifa.

She electrified the crowd packed into the astroturf inside the Michigan Stars Sport Center on Saturday night calling Jocelyn Benson, a Democrat currently serving as secretary of state, “an authoritarian leftist who treats the people of Michigan like the unwashed masses.”"

 

‘We need to works these polls’: Trump stumps for candidates who support the big lie

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"DePerno rose to prominence last year as he spread false allegations of fraud in Antrim county, in Northern-Michigan, where a clerk made a mistake on election night and posted incorrect numbers that initially showed Biden leading. DePerno led a lawsuit against the county and spread incorrect information suggesting votes could have been switched. A government review and a separate GOP-led investigation of the incident found no evidence of fraud, and was unsparing in its criticism of DePerno.

“No longer will we allow the elites in this country to control our elections and to control us,” DePerno said on Saturday. He has pledged to arrest Benson and Dana Nessel, the current Democratic attorney general."