"With few exceptions, the media has lost the ability to identify big, important news, and instead are trying to curry favor and explain away an abhorrent, racist minority faction of this nation, that is trying to slam the gears of progress into reverse, and drag us by our hair back to a dark and evil time when nobody but them had any rights."
#MittRomney will be replaced by a guy who sure sounds a lot like Mitt Romney.
#Republican Rep #JohnCurtis, who has occasionally bucked #Trump, won a crowded #GOP#primary on Tues for Romney’s #Utah#Senate seat. He beat Trent Staggs, a #MAGA candidate w/ Trump’s blessing, to secure a win for the mainstream GOP in a devout #Mormon state that has long proved skeptical of Trumpian #politics.
NEW: #Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry (R) signs two more voter suppression bills into law that will restrict voter assistance and make it harder for people to hold voter registration drives. Landry has signed numerous other suppressive election laws this month.
#NewYork Judge Juan #Merchan partially lifted a gag order on Trump on Tues following the #Republican’s #conviction on criminal charges stemming from an effort to #influence the 2016 election by buying a porn star's silence.
“Nonetheless, there is ample #evidence to justify continued concern for the #jurors. Therefore, the #protections set forth in this Court's #ProtectiveOrder of March 7, 2024, Regulating Disclosure of Juror Information will remain in effect until further order of this Court.”
"According to reports, (Michigan state representative {R} Neil Friske was arrested on Thursday by the Lansing Police Department with a gun in his possession...after he allegedly chased an adult dancer from his home.
"Neil loves to volunteer and serve in his community. When his sons were young, he coached their youth baseball and basketball teams, and he has coached other community sports teams, too. He frequently serves in the local church where he worships," https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-supporting-state-rep-chased-stripper-from-his-home-with-a-gun-reports-say/ar-BB1oBiLU #MAGA#Guns
"The now-buried truth is no group ever committed atrocities until it first convinced itself it was too good—uniquely good, even—to commit atrocities. The now-buried truth is that it is precisely the lie of "very fine people" that allows supremacy to rise—on their goodness, not their badness, on their very fine qualities, on their moral authority, which they lend to monsters in order to permit atrocities."
Jess Piper takes readers on a tour of a "Trump Store" in ticky-tacky Branson, Missouri, Trump country if there ever was such a place, and boy howdy, the discoveries she makes. For one thing, far from making America great, the store is peddling merch made in China and Mexico, while claiming Mexican workers sew "made in Mexico" tags on American goods.
Oliver Darcy looks at ways MAGA media are, out of desperation, seeking pre-emptively to handle a Trump débacle in the debate. They have done everything in their power to paint Biden as decripit and confused, so anticipating that he will appear otherwise, they're lying and saying he's on drugs. And that CNN is biased and will disfavor Trump….
What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive, my mother would have said.
When leaders talk about banning masks for safety, they ignore the safety of many diverse communities. People who are higher risk, and Asian people have been attacked for wearing masks. Black and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted by police. Safety means EVERYONE.
Funny how these .#MAGA / #GOP / Libertarian / Rightwing arseholes who bang on about freedom of choice are very badly to take it away from other people.
And the rightwing #evangelica - pseudo #Democrats - pseudo #Christian - psuedo #ProLife - pseudo £patriotism arseholes who really don't give a fuck about their fellow citizens or anyone else, they just want to enforce their own dumb orejudices onto everyone else, because that's what fascists do.
Hey, Republicans!
Your party’s standard-bearer is a fraudster, a marital infidel, a rapist, a domestic terrorist, a traitor to the U.S., and an insurrectionist.
Make America Great Again was a failed delusion. Proudly wearing a MAGA hat in 2024 is akin to proudly wearing a dunce cap.
America is great. Just because it doesn't prominently reflect only them is what angers them. That's not greatness. That's weakness as, having failed, they are proven losers.
By all means, sell them their red dunce caps.
"Video Reportedly of Amazon Worker Refusing to Mail MAGA Hats Sparks Probe"
Nige Farage: "Brilliant Putin is the leader I most admire". This Putin apologist should be in prison, not out electioneering. We cannot have a traitor in the UK Parliament. The #Conservatives were far too close to the Russians. Now we face the prospect of a mini-Duma sitting in the UK Parliament under the the #reformuk banner.
MAGA is petrified. They've spent 3 1/2 years telling you #Biden can't put his pants on by himself and can't maintain a thought, but now that we are a week from the debate, they know #Trump is the one who truly is having cognitive problems. Plus they know Biden is old but is not as decrepit as they've described him. What's the new lie? Biden is taking drugs, he's doping. It's so ridiculous and desperate. #MAGA is pathetic — Barry Markson #quotes#quote#Lies
Trump claims he didn’t regularly use a fake name. That’s not what he said under oath. ( lemmy.world )
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