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    This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

    We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

    There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?



     
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    It's like he's an alien in a humans body trying to figure out how to smile and what to do with his hands.

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    Wasn't this the ad campaign that led to the "I'm so and so and i approve this message?"
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    Rick Reed, a Republican media strategist who helped create one of the most scathingly memorable ad campaigns in recent history, writing and producing commercials during the 2004 presidential race that accused Sen. John F. Kerry of lying about his Vietnam War record and betraying his former comrades, died Aug. 17 at his home in Alexandria, Va. He was 69..........

    Mr. Reed remained best known for his work with Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of about 200 former Navy officers and enlisted sailors who alleged that Kerry, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts, had embellished his record during the Vietnam War, when he captained Swift boats in the Mekong Delta and was awarded honors including the Silver Star. Among other claims, they asserted that Kerry received his first of three Purple Hearts for a minor, self-inflicted wound, and said that he was unfit to serve as commander in chief because of his statements as an antiwar activist.

    Their claims were fiercely disputed by the Kerry campaign and later undermined by news reports, which revealed that some of the men criticizing the senator had previously filed written reports lauding his heroism. Many of the veterans who spoke in the commercials did not serve on the same Swift boats as Kerry, and other veterans questioned the accounts of some who said they did.

    Democrats considered the commercials a smear campaign, with Kerry allies arguing that the ads were an especially low blow given that they benefited a candidate — incumbent President George W. Bush — who had not served in Vietnam. “Swiftboating” entered the political lexicon as a term for targeting candidates with unfair attack ads, and the commercials were also criticized by Republicans including McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, who called the ads “dishonest and dishonorable.” (He still maintained ties with Mr. Reed, whose firm briefly worked on McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign.)

    Mr. Reed insisted the ads were part of a legitimate effort to offer new insight into Kerry’s career, and stood by the veterans who appeared in them. Like many other political analysts, he also believed the commercials played a role in Kerry’s loss to Bush, who won the popular vote by three percentage points. “We rocked the very foundation of his persona and candidacy by saying John Kerry isn’t who he says he is,” he said in an interview soon after the election with L. Patrick Devlin, then a media and politics scholar at the University of Rhode Island...........

     
    wasn't even sure what thread to put this in.

    wow.

    The Dobbs decision definitely has the religious right feeling themselves "we're going to go after everything we've ever wanted!"

    I'll never understand people so hate filled and so convinced their hate is literally a divine right
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    The religious right has celebrated the overturn of Roe v. Wade, but their obsession with controlling women’s bodies knows no satisfaction.

    Now a far-right preacher known for his vile rants about the LGBTQ community is calling for men to burn their wives’ pants because, he says, it’s just a form of crossdressing.

    Brother Duncan Urbanek spread the love of God by using anti-gay slurs and encouraging men to destroy their spouses’ possessions. Urbanek is a member of the Stedfast Baptist Church, one of the most vicious anti-LGBTQ hate groups in the nation. Church leaders have called for the execution of gay men and publicly celebrated tragedies that killed members of the LGBTQ community.

    “People want to get so riled up… Yeah! F*gs are an abomination. God hates ’em,” he begins. “Well, didn’t it just say if you’re a crossdresser, you’re an abomination too?”

    “Now obviously it’s not as bad as being a fa***t,” he continued, “But God is still very upset with your sin.”

    “No what should we do about that, knowing this as Christians? If you’re a woman and you own any pants, throw them away. Light them on fire. If you’re a man and your wife has pants, throw them away. And if she yells at you, so be it. Throw them away. That’s a good fight to be in.”..........


     
    Evidently there is audio of Steve Wynn, billionaire R donor, giving R politicians the directive to say that D policies that will result in him paying more taxes will hurt blue collar workers. (they won’t).

     
    Ron DeSantis is the new conservative culture war champion, and he’s not letting you forget it.

    Fresh off an expected win in Tuesday night’s gubernatorial primary, the popular (at least among conservatives) governor is vowing to fight the Democrats’ “woke” agenda the way he knows best: by repeating the word “woke” over and over while spending his administration’s time on red meat issues for conservatives like transgender rights and critical race theory.

    In one moment during his victory speech on Tuesday, observers on social media pointed out that Mr DeSantis bemoaned the left’s “woke” agenda five times in less than 20 seconds, clearly in an effort to keep his fans’ attention or at least start an echo in the building……

    www.independent.co.uk

    DeSantis says ‘woke’ 5 times in 19 seconds in culture war laden primary speech

    Florida governor is thought to be 2024 primary contender
    www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk


     

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