Tried to claim he was accepted to the Naval Academy but the car accident cost him a scholarship, when the truth was he had already been denied entry prior to the accident.
The New low (I.) Q. Republicans and Ted Cruz
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I don't think he clamed he was a veteran, but did some other crazy things and like I said, is arguably even more right wing and crazier than Trump.
Edit: Already answered by few others before me
The right wing crazies are fundraising juggernauts right now. They are here to stay.
He was a passenger in a vechicle who paralyzed himself by stupidly having his feet on the dashboard while taking a nap. He then used his paralysis as the false reason he wasn’t admitted to the Naval Academy.
Definitely a fashy sociopath.
McConnell is of course an opportunist and survivor before anything, but yeah, by all evidence, he's not really a Trumpite insofar as he has any opinion beyond 'bwahahah, power!'; so clearly he doesn't really dictate direction inside the GOP at this point. Which I suppose is for the better, since he is not a bad strategist.
I think @nimic's Gengis Khan comment came from you saying that she was going to be challenged by a candidate 'on her own right'. At least, I interpreted that as meaning that this person was politically to the right of this madwoman - which wouldn't bode well for their character.
Ah, I see.I think @nimic's Gengis Khan comment came from you saying that she was going to be challenged by a candidate 'on her own right'. At least, I interpreted that as meaning that this person was politically to the right of this madwoman - which wouldn't bode well for their character.
I don't know where exactly she stands on important political issues, all I know is she's not a Q nutjob.
TYT can be a total clown show but this was funny.
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They lost me at "Marjorie Taylor Green thinks".
Not into the Jim Thorpe look ?
Anyone else think he looks like an older, fatter, not as gorgeous @Rooney in Paris ?
So not at all me?
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The Police force, the bin men, street cleaners, fire service., road workers and highway maintenance.... . Doctors and nurses
Man, I hate it when my students cough on me and I get cancer.
It’s an epidemic.
Well, here those are private companiesDoctors and nurses
I know mate, I was being facetious.
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Obama really broke the Republicans.
My first instinct is to mock their little shields, but these guys are doing a fascism.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/07/politics/trump-republicans-2022-biden-putin/index.html
Trump's anti-democratic 2022 playbook takes shape as Biden faces off with Putin
Trump's anti-democratic 2022 playbook takes shape as Biden faces off with Putin
Former President Donald Trump's grip on the Republican Party is tightening as the 2022 midterm elections approach and GOP candidates launch campaigns at every level of governance -- from school boards to the US Senate -- with hopes of attracting his endorsement and strengthening the anti-democratic movement fueled by his lies about last year's presidential contest.
Trump has for years sought to rid his party of any high-profile names who opposed his ascent, questioned his fitness or, in 2020, did the bare minimum of acknowledging his loss to President Joe Biden -- who will face off with Russian President Vladimir Putin, no stranger to systemic undermining of democracies, in a high-stakes Tuesday summit centered on concerns over Russian aggression in Ukraine.
As Biden seeks to head off a potentially deadly and destabilizing military incursion in Eastern Europe, Trump and his allies are ramping up their efforts to infiltrate the roots and branches of American democracy. With a new election season on the horizon, the former President and MAGA-friendly organizations are on the offensive, imposing a domestic Trumpification process concerned as much with ridding the GOP of his opponents as elevating his allies.
There is nothing unusual about the most popular figure in a political party working to smooth the political road for like-minded candidates. Former President Barack Obama is still, nearly five years after leaving the White House, the most desired endorsement in Democratic politics. But the nature of Trump's influence is, of course, fundamentally different and the programmatic messaging of his acolytes -- especially lower down the ticket -- reflects a fealty to Trump and his fictions that threatens to corrode the most basic levers of government.
Georgia emerges, again, as ground zero
The process has been sped in part by current, Trump-critical Republican officeholders who have opted for the exits rather than face the wrath of his supporters or sure defeat in GOP-dominated elections.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is almost a singular figure in her effort to seek reelection to Congress in open defiance of Trump and a primary candidate he's backed to run against her. Others, like Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, are choosing not to run next year, in part, over the prospect of Trump riling up his base against them. In 2017, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a conservative Republican, announced his retirement when it became clear his criticism of the then-President had dampened his odds of reelection. And in Massachusetts, the broadly popular moderate Republican Gov. Charlie Baker announced last week he would not seek a third term. By standing down, he side stepped a primary challenge from Trump-backed former state lawmaker Geoff Diehl.
In Georgia, former Sen. David Perdue on Monday kicked off a primary challenge to sitting Gov. Brian Kemp, a conservative Republican who put himself on Trump's enemies list by not attempting to subvert the state's 2020 election results.
Perdue's video announcing his candidacy offered a vision of Trumpism with a smiling face, as he borrowed from the aesthetics -- half-zip collar, mention of parental control of schools -- of Virginia's Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, who ran a campaign this year that successfully downplayed Trump. But the former Peach State senator, who lost in a runoff earlier this year, included in his indictment of Kemp a mention of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the GOP election official who repeatedly shot down Trump's claims of voter fraud in the state.
Ironically, Perdue blamed both men for the country's divisions -- even though it was Trump who stoked fears of mail-in voting that may have kept Georgia Republicans home last January and cost Perdue his seat.
In a statement late Monday endorsing Perdue, Trump echoed parts of the new candidate's remarks, but, per usual, set aside the dog whistle for a bullhorn when it came to the 2020 election.
"Kemp has been a very weak Governor -- the liberals and RINOs have run all over him on Election Integrity, and more," Trump said. "Most importantly, he can't win because the MAGA base -- which is enormous -- will never vote for him."
Kemp's ability to garner support from Trump die-hards is obviously in doubt. But the suggestion that Kemp, Georgia's former secretary of state, has been a bystander or wallflower in the national voting rights fight is plainly absurd -- and not in a way that flatters him.
If anything, Kemp's longtime support for and dogged implementation of strict voting laws probably helped Trump keep the 2020 race as close as it ended up being. And he signed restrictive new measures into law in March following Biden's victory in the state.
Georgia Republicans are now poised for a knock-down, drag-out gubernatorial primary that could sour middle-of-the-road voters on the eventual nominee and lend a hand to Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running again in 2022 after falling just short of defeating Kemp in 2018. In a state that's likely to be the political epicenter of next year, Trump has already handpicked candidates in the Senate race -- encouraging Herschel Walker to run despite some Republicans' concerns about his past -- and backing GOP Rep. Jody Hice, who voted against certifying the presidential election, against Raffensperger.
It's this push to aid or install Trumpist candidates farther down the ballot, especially in state legislative or election official races, that might actually be cause for greater concern. The policy-making power invested in those offices is lesser than that of a governor or US senator, but their ability to meddle with or undermine bigger elections was underscored during the nervy days following Biden's victory last year, when Trump loyalists pushed them to take extralegal steps to reverse or refuse to certify the results.
Trump's ticket takes shape
Two of the Republican candidates for high office in Michigan, where Biden won by more than 154,000 votes, openly sought to subvert the outcome. Kristina Karamo, a poll challenger running for secretary of state, falsely claimed Trump won the state in 2020. Matthew DePerno, who filed a dubious lawsuit challenging the election results, is now running for attorney general. Both have Trump's endorsement.
The list of election conspiracists either already occupying influential positions or vying to obtain them goes on -- but it doesn't end with more slightly more buttoned-down officials, operatives and activists with prior electoral experience.
Public Wise, an election rights organization formed in 2019, is working to launch a searchable database of records on individuals and groups in powerful positions who were involved in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. The group told CNN it now has more than 1,000 records indicating that nearly 200 alleged insurrectionists are holding or seeking seats in Congress, statewide offices, and on city councils, school boards and other local offices.
"The dangerous ideology that fueled the insurrection of January 6th is spreading across every level of government, accelerated by former President Trump's deliberate effort to install insurrectionists and believers in the 'big lie' at every level of our government," said Public Wise Executive Director Christina Baal-Owens. "Electing the same individuals who attacked the Capitol on January 6th poses a direct threat to American democracy, especially as we look ahead to the 2022 midterms and 2024."
Leading figures in Trump's orbit have made no secret of their desire to systematically stock government with movement loyalists. Steve Bannon, who helped steer Trump to election in 2016 and briefly served as his chief strategist and senior counselor in the White House, has made his podcast a hub for below-the-radar organizational efforts.
"We're taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy. We're taking over all the elections," Bannon said on a recent episode of his podcast, CNN's Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb reported on Monday.
In an interview with CNN, he spelled out the strategy in simple terms. "It's about winning elections with the right people -- MAGA people," Bannon said. "We will have our people in at every level."
Whether the tactic is successful remains to be seen. Youngkin and New Jersey's Jack Ciattarelli, who nearly ousted Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in a shockingly close race this November, did better than expected in part by keeping Trump out of the campaign discourse and -- literally -- outside state lines. Trump played along this year; he's unlikely to be so deferential, or receding, during a campaign he seems to regard as a referendum on his own popularity.
Trump has also displayed a tendency to back flawed candidates facing controversy. His endorsement of Roy Moore in Alabama back in 2017, when multiple women had accused Moore of molesting or sexually assaulting them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, fell flat. Moore, whom then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called on to leave the race, denied the allegations but went on to lose to Democrat Doug Jones.
More recently, Sean Parnell, Trump's choice to fill the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, suspended his primary campaign after a judge awarded his estranged wife primary physical custody and sole legal custody of their three children and determined that Parnell had committed some abusive acts toward his wife in the past. She has also accused him of injuring their children on two occasions -- all claims that Parnell has denied.
In Georgia's other big-ticket race, for the Senate seat won by Democrat Raphael Warnock earlier this year, Trump went all-in for Walker despite him facing allegations of threatening multiple women. In a 2008 interview with CNN, Walker spoke openly about struggling with mental illness and the violent and disturbing thoughts he had. Walker's campaign has noted the former football star has gotten help since his allegedly violent incidents in the early 2000s, while denying a more recent allegation.
Trump has stopped short of endorsing former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in his Senate bid. Greitens resigned from his previous job in 2018 following a probe into alleged sexual and campaign misconduct. A woman had testified under oath to state lawmakers that she felt forced into sexual acts by him and that he had threatened to release explicit photos of her if she revealed their relationship. (Greitens admitted to the affair, but denied ever engaging in blackmail, coercion or acts of sexual violence.) He has since claimed he was "exonerated," noting an investigator in his case was charged with perjury and evidence tampering.
But the break with Trump isn't complete: Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, one of the former President's top 2020 campaign aides, signed on to be Greitens' national campaign chair.
Trump has for years sought to rid his party of any high-profile names who opposed his ascent, questioned his fitness or, in 2020, did the bare minimum of acknowledging his loss to President Joe Biden -- who will face off with Russian President Vladimir Putin, no stranger to systemic undermining of democracies, in a high-stakes Tuesday summit centered on concerns over Russian aggression in Ukraine.
As Biden seeks to head off a potentially deadly and destabilizing military incursion in Eastern Europe, Trump and his allies are ramping up their efforts to infiltrate the roots and branches of American democracy. With a new election season on the horizon, the former President and MAGA-friendly organizations are on the offensive, imposing a domestic Trumpification process concerned as much with ridding the GOP of his opponents as elevating his allies.
There is nothing unusual about the most popular figure in a political party working to smooth the political road for like-minded candidates. Former President Barack Obama is still, nearly five years after leaving the White House, the most desired endorsement in Democratic politics. But the nature of Trump's influence is, of course, fundamentally different and the programmatic messaging of his acolytes -- especially lower down the ticket -- reflects a fealty to Trump and his fictions that threatens to corrode the most basic levers of government.
Georgia emerges, again, as ground zero
The process has been sped in part by current, Trump-critical Republican officeholders who have opted for the exits rather than face the wrath of his supporters or sure defeat in GOP-dominated elections.
Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney is almost a singular figure in her effort to seek reelection to Congress in open defiance of Trump and a primary candidate he's backed to run against her. Others, like Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger and Ohio Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, are choosing not to run next year, in part, over the prospect of Trump riling up his base against them. In 2017, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a conservative Republican, announced his retirement when it became clear his criticism of the then-President had dampened his odds of reelection. And in Massachusetts, the broadly popular moderate Republican Gov. Charlie Baker announced last week he would not seek a third term. By standing down, he side stepped a primary challenge from Trump-backed former state lawmaker Geoff Diehl.
In Georgia, former Sen. David Perdue on Monday kicked off a primary challenge to sitting Gov. Brian Kemp, a conservative Republican who put himself on Trump's enemies list by not attempting to subvert the state's 2020 election results.
Perdue's video announcing his candidacy offered a vision of Trumpism with a smiling face, as he borrowed from the aesthetics -- half-zip collar, mention of parental control of schools -- of Virginia's Republican Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin, who ran a campaign this year that successfully downplayed Trump. But the former Peach State senator, who lost in a runoff earlier this year, included in his indictment of Kemp a mention of Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, the GOP election official who repeatedly shot down Trump's claims of voter fraud in the state.
Ironically, Perdue blamed both men for the country's divisions -- even though it was Trump who stoked fears of mail-in voting that may have kept Georgia Republicans home last January and cost Perdue his seat.
In a statement late Monday endorsing Perdue, Trump echoed parts of the new candidate's remarks, but, per usual, set aside the dog whistle for a bullhorn when it came to the 2020 election.
"Kemp has been a very weak Governor -- the liberals and RINOs have run all over him on Election Integrity, and more," Trump said. "Most importantly, he can't win because the MAGA base -- which is enormous -- will never vote for him."
Kemp's ability to garner support from Trump die-hards is obviously in doubt. But the suggestion that Kemp, Georgia's former secretary of state, has been a bystander or wallflower in the national voting rights fight is plainly absurd -- and not in a way that flatters him.
If anything, Kemp's longtime support for and dogged implementation of strict voting laws probably helped Trump keep the 2020 race as close as it ended up being. And he signed restrictive new measures into law in March following Biden's victory in the state.
Georgia Republicans are now poised for a knock-down, drag-out gubernatorial primary that could sour middle-of-the-road voters on the eventual nominee and lend a hand to Democrat Stacey Abrams, who is running again in 2022 after falling just short of defeating Kemp in 2018. In a state that's likely to be the political epicenter of next year, Trump has already handpicked candidates in the Senate race -- encouraging Herschel Walker to run despite some Republicans' concerns about his past -- and backing GOP Rep. Jody Hice, who voted against certifying the presidential election, against Raffensperger.
It's this push to aid or install Trumpist candidates farther down the ballot, especially in state legislative or election official races, that might actually be cause for greater concern. The policy-making power invested in those offices is lesser than that of a governor or US senator, but their ability to meddle with or undermine bigger elections was underscored during the nervy days following Biden's victory last year, when Trump loyalists pushed them to take extralegal steps to reverse or refuse to certify the results.
Trump's ticket takes shape
Two of the Republican candidates for high office in Michigan, where Biden won by more than 154,000 votes, openly sought to subvert the outcome. Kristina Karamo, a poll challenger running for secretary of state, falsely claimed Trump won the state in 2020. Matthew DePerno, who filed a dubious lawsuit challenging the election results, is now running for attorney general. Both have Trump's endorsement.
The list of election conspiracists either already occupying influential positions or vying to obtain them goes on -- but it doesn't end with more slightly more buttoned-down officials, operatives and activists with prior electoral experience.
Public Wise, an election rights organization formed in 2019, is working to launch a searchable database of records on individuals and groups in powerful positions who were involved in the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. The group told CNN it now has more than 1,000 records indicating that nearly 200 alleged insurrectionists are holding or seeking seats in Congress, statewide offices, and on city councils, school boards and other local offices.
"The dangerous ideology that fueled the insurrection of January 6th is spreading across every level of government, accelerated by former President Trump's deliberate effort to install insurrectionists and believers in the 'big lie' at every level of our government," said Public Wise Executive Director Christina Baal-Owens. "Electing the same individuals who attacked the Capitol on January 6th poses a direct threat to American democracy, especially as we look ahead to the 2022 midterms and 2024."
Leading figures in Trump's orbit have made no secret of their desire to systematically stock government with movement loyalists. Steve Bannon, who helped steer Trump to election in 2016 and briefly served as his chief strategist and senior counselor in the White House, has made his podcast a hub for below-the-radar organizational efforts.
"We're taking over the Republican Party through the precinct committee strategy. We're taking over all the elections," Bannon said on a recent episode of his podcast, CNN's Sara Murray and Jeremy Herb reported on Monday.
In an interview with CNN, he spelled out the strategy in simple terms. "It's about winning elections with the right people -- MAGA people," Bannon said. "We will have our people in at every level."
Whether the tactic is successful remains to be seen. Youngkin and New Jersey's Jack Ciattarelli, who nearly ousted Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy in a shockingly close race this November, did better than expected in part by keeping Trump out of the campaign discourse and -- literally -- outside state lines. Trump played along this year; he's unlikely to be so deferential, or receding, during a campaign he seems to regard as a referendum on his own popularity.
Trump has also displayed a tendency to back flawed candidates facing controversy. His endorsement of Roy Moore in Alabama back in 2017, when multiple women had accused Moore of molesting or sexually assaulting them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, fell flat. Moore, whom then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called on to leave the race, denied the allegations but went on to lose to Democrat Doug Jones.
More recently, Sean Parnell, Trump's choice to fill the Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, suspended his primary campaign after a judge awarded his estranged wife primary physical custody and sole legal custody of their three children and determined that Parnell had committed some abusive acts toward his wife in the past. She has also accused him of injuring their children on two occasions -- all claims that Parnell has denied.
In Georgia's other big-ticket race, for the Senate seat won by Democrat Raphael Warnock earlier this year, Trump went all-in for Walker despite him facing allegations of threatening multiple women. In a 2008 interview with CNN, Walker spoke openly about struggling with mental illness and the violent and disturbing thoughts he had. Walker's campaign has noted the former football star has gotten help since his allegedly violent incidents in the early 2000s, while denying a more recent allegation.
Trump has stopped short of endorsing former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens in his Senate bid. Greitens resigned from his previous job in 2018 following a probe into alleged sexual and campaign misconduct. A woman had testified under oath to state lawmakers that she felt forced into sexual acts by him and that he had threatened to release explicit photos of her if she revealed their relationship. (Greitens admitted to the affair, but denied ever engaging in blackmail, coercion or acts of sexual violence.) He has since claimed he was "exonerated," noting an investigator in his case was charged with perjury and evidence tampering.
But the break with Trump isn't complete: Donald Trump Jr.'s girlfriend, former Fox News host Kimberly Guilfoyle, one of the former President's top 2020 campaign aides, signed on to be Greitens' national campaign chair.
Wannabe brown shirts patrolling the streets.
I’ve said it before, but I’d be so worried if I was American. With fascists marching in the streets and half the country bowing to a man and a party that’s in open war with truth and democracy.
2024’s going to be armageddon.
Of course America as socialist programs , the road she drove on to get to where she is, is one of them, and the Military she claims to love , is another
Marjorie Taylor Greene: Jan. 6 defendants are being mocked in jail 'because of the color of their skin
https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-january-6-2655938707/#comments_section_start
They're being mocked because they're fecking stupid, Marjorie.Have followed Gina Carano on FB long before her ignorance came to the forefront. She posts some outlandish bullshit but the more amazing part is the jizzfest amongst her fellow nutjobs. I'm fairly certain she's only known as a social media presence/failed actress these days, so what better way to keep one's name somewhat in the known than to latch onto far right bullshit.
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And they're actually voluntary voting these people in you tell me?
Yeah, pffft, I dunno. God luck America.
It's a matter of time before Russia properly push the boundaries with Ukraine, and China do the same with Taiwan.... good luck in your role as the World Police when that happens while you've voted idiots like these people into power because you're so divided as a nation yourselves.
Good thing someone's keeping close tabs on the well-being of these
Will someone think of the traitors!?!?!?
Omg....the actual cringing. Fuentes is just a sad incel sociopath that takes out his insecurities about women on everyone else