Republicans: continued

[Tero]

More facts
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/17/us-mex ... rders-myth

[L'Emmerdeur]

Oh yeah, like facts have any relevance. It's well known that fact-checkers are completely unconvincing and facts are nothing more than a means to distract right-thinking people from the things that they already know. Facts are a waste of time. Just listen to the right podcasts and you'll soon understand.

Meanwhile, two righteous Republicans are being railroaded by the Deep State, trying to prosecute them for exercising their right to free speech.

'Michigan Supreme Court hears 2020 election robocall misinformation case'

Two far-right operatives who made tens of thousands of calls spreading misinformation about voting across Midwestern states ahead of the 2020 presidential election, had oral arguments taken Thursday in their robocall voter intimidation criminal case in the Michigan Supreme Court.

Investigators who have looked into calls made in Michigan, Ohio and New York estimate that Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, who both have a history of manufacturing conservative conspiracy theories, made about 85,000 robocalls with false information about voting in an attempt to keep people from participating in the 2020 election in which Republican former President Donald Trump lost to Democratic President Joe Biden.

Michigan Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel filed multiple felony charges in 2020 against Burkman and Wohl involving voter intimidation and using computers to commit crimes against election laws.

In Michigan, Burkman and Wohl made thousands of calls in cities where the majority of residents are minority groups like Detroit, where 12,000 calls were made and 79% of residents are Black. The prosecution in the case has argued the focus on communities of color was intentional by the pair.

The defense for the two men has argued up to the Supreme Court that criminal charges should be dropped as their actions were not “menacing” with threats of violence and their misinformation efforts are protected by the First Amendment.

[Brian Peacock]

Republicans complain that since the feds started the department of education, performance has dropped.

More money seems to often equal poorer results. I like the 'school choice' idea, but I don't know why some don't.

Yeah, no, that hasn't happened.

Wow! Is that public schools?

And what the hell tanked performance so bad in the last couple years?

COVID?

[Cunt]

Yes, of course. It ruined the development of many children.

Good thing it was totally necessary, and no-one is keeping score on who was wrong, and when.

[rasetsu]

Yes, of course. It ruined the development of many children.

Good thing it was totally necessary, and no-one is keeping score on who was wrong, and when.

Your posts are like a Rorschach ink blot. They can mean anything and thus end up meaning nothing.

[Cunt]

the covid response was bad, and those who supported (or made) the terrible choices are not being held to account.

Both parties though, so it might be confusing.

Probably best to just go by what the paid propagandists say about it.

[rasetsu]

the covid response was bad, and those who supported (or made) the terrible choices are not being held to account.

Both parties though, so it might be confusing.

Probably best to just go by what the paid propagandists say about it.

Why, when our unpaid propagandist is at hand? Wouldn't want to threaten your job security.

[Cunt]

the covid response was bad, and those who supported (or made) the terrible choices are not being held to account.

Both parties though, so it might be confusing.

Probably best to just go by what the paid propagandists say about it.

Why, when our unpaid propagandist is at hand? Wouldn't want to threaten your job security.

Here is a hint: The paid propaganda will be on the highest paid platforms. Google/meta/amazon take a shit-ton of money, so that's where you will find it.

Or just check your state-funded media. They'll have some.

[rasetsu]

the covid response was bad, and those who supported (or made) the terrible choices are not being held to account.

Both parties though, so it might be confusing.

Probably best to just go by what the paid propagandists say about it.

Why, when our unpaid propagandist is at hand? Wouldn't want to threaten your job security.

Here is a hint: The paid propaganda will be on the highest paid platforms. Google/meta/amazon take a shit-ton of money, so that's where you will find it.

Or just check your state-funded media. They'll have some.

I don't need to go anywhere given that you regularly promote the talking points promoted by big business.

You're a corporate tool. Why would I order out?

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

[Cunt]

What does your state-funded media tell you? Orange man bad?

I am tickled that you want more Biden! He doddered into 2 or three wars since starting. Can't wait to see what he does if he gets a lame duck term

[rasetsu]

What does your state-funded media tell you? Orange man bad?

I am tickled that you want more Biden! He doddered into 2 or three wars since starting. Can't wait to see what he does if he gets a lame duck term

[Cunt]

is that from your state-funded media source?

[Tero]

[L'Emmerdeur]

Onward, Christian soldiers. Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is not shy about his aims. Many Republicans want to institute theocracy in the US but at least they're not the Democratic Party.

'The Key to Mike Johnson’s Christian Extremism Hangs Outside His Office'

The American public has had much to learn about Mike Johnson over the past two weeks. Until his surprise elevation to House speaker, the Louisiana representative was an obscure, mild-mannered, and bookish four-term back-bencher. He is a former constitutional lawyer and hardly the type of political figure who jeers during a State of the Union address, or gets caught in a Beetlejuice groping scandal, or shows up on cable news to take a victory lap after ousting the leader of his own party. Johnson is focused, methodical, and up until now was happy to operate behind the scenes.

He’s also a dyed-in-the-wool Christian conservative, and there’s a flag hanging outside his office that leads into a universe of right-wing religious extremism as unknown to most Americans as Johnson was before he ascended to the speakership.

Johnson slots firmly within the more hardline evangelical wing of the Republican coalition. He holds stringent positions on abortion, thinks homosexuality is a lifestyle choice that should not be recognized under legal protections against discrimination, defends young Earth creationism, blames school shootings on the sexual revolution of the 1960s, and questions the framework of the separation of church and state. “The founders wanted to protect the church from an encroaching state, not the other way around,” he has said.

Johnson was also integral to Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. As The New York Times has reported, he collected signatures for a brief supporting a Texas lawsuit alleging, without evidence, irregularities in election results; served a key role in the GOP’s attempts to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election; and touted Trump’s conspiracy theories about election fraud, even saying, “You know the allegations about these voting machines, some of them being rigged with this software by Dominion, there’s a lot of merit to that.”

If this was all we knew about Mike Johnson, we could accurately say that he is a full-bore, right-wing Christian and an election denier who dabbles in conspiracy theories — qualities that might give one pause before putting him second in line to the presidency. But there is another angle to Johnson’s extremism that has received less scrutiny, and it brings us back to that flag outside his office.

The flag — which Rolling Stone has confirmed hangs outside his district office in the Cannon House Office Building — is white with a simple evergreen tree in the center and the phrase “An Appeal to Heaven” at the top. Historically, this flag was a Revolutionary War banner, commissioned by George Washington as a naval flag for the colony turned state of Massachusetts. The quote “An Appeal to Heaven” was a slogan from that war, taken from a treatise by the philosopher John Locke. But in the past decade it has come to symbolize a die-hard vision of a hegemonically Christian America.

To understand the contemporary meaning of the Appeal to Heaven flag, it’s necessary to enter a world of Christian extremism animated by modern-day apostles, prophets, and apocalyptic visions of Christian triumph that was central to the chaos and violence of Jan. 6. Earlier this year we released an audio-documentary series, rooted in deep historical research and ethnographic interviews, on this sector of Christianity, which is known as the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The flag hanging outside Johnson’s office is a key part of its symbology.

[JimC]

Enjoying your devotion to religious fundamentalists, Cunt? I suspect your "atheism" is a sham...