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#3101613 9-Jul-2023 09:26

Wouldn't that be nice if he really has turned on her? Honestly she needs to be brought down a notch or two. Watching her the election for governor of Arizona was personally quite satisfying to watch.

Of course, it didn't stop her big loud lying mouth carrying on about election fraud and running off to the courts to challenge her loss, over and over (she lost every time). But hey, it's her money, who am I to tell her not to waste it on pointless court cases?

In all seriousness, I think Trump probably wouldn't pick her - there's a chance she would try to outshine him and grab more attention than he would get (as per the article above).

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#3102131 10-Jul-2023 13:38

The NY Times - Where Clarence Thomas Entered an Elite Circle and Opened a Door to the Court

09 July 2023 (extracts from a long article - ungated link above)

On Oct. 15, 1991, Clarence Thomas secured his seat on the Supreme Court, a narrow victory after a bruising confirmation fight that left him isolated and disillusioned.

Within months, the new justice enjoyed a far-warmer acceptance to a second exclusive club: the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans, named for the Gilded Age author whose rags-to-riches novels represented an aspirational version of Justice Thomas’s own bootstraps origin story. ...

At Horatio Alger, he moved into the inner circle, a cluster of extraordinarily wealthy, largely conservative members who lionized him and all that he had achieved. While he has never held an official leadership position, in some ways he has become the association’s leading light.

He has granted it unusual access to the Supreme Court, where every year he presides over the group’s signature event: a ceremony in the courtroom at which he places Horatio Alger medals around the necks of new lifetime members. One entrepreneur called it “the closest thing to being knighted in the United States.” ...

His friendships forged through Horatio Alger have brought him proximity to a lifestyle of unimaginable material privilege. ...

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#3102464 10-Jul-2023 22:19

Burning the messenger

US meteorologist on receiving death threats over his climate crisis reports

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63 F = 17 C
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90 F = 32 C (Idaho, state is near Canada border, meteorologist got death deaths)
104 F = 40 C (China)
110 F = 43 C (Spain)
113 F = 45 C (Arizona this week, state is near Mexico border)
115 F = 46 C (Texas heat index)
120 F = 49 C (Arizona next week)

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#3102500 11-Jul-2023 08:59

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/10/gop-grifters-drain-arizona-republican-party-to-near-bankruptcy.html >> grifters gonna grift (and this time around, I sincerely hope they don't stop!)

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#3102855 11-Jul-2023 19:54

A Deplorable T shirt

"My pronouns are FJB/LGB" Translation: F*** Joe Biden / Let's Go Brandon

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#3102985 12-Jul-2023 08:31

From the same party as Trump: "Sir, if George Washington and Abraham Lincoln came alive from the dead and they formed a president-vice president team, you would beat them by 40%"

and "no politician in history treated worse or more unfairly"

The Guardian: Republican fabulist George Santos compares himself to Rosa Parks

George Santos, the Republican congressman whose résumé has been shown to be largely fabricated and who has pleaded not guilty to 13 counts of fraud, money laundering and theft of public funds, stoked outrage by comparing himself to the great civil rights campaigner Rosa Parks.

“Rosa Parks didn’t sit in the back, and neither am I gonna sit in the back,” Santos told Mike Crispi Unafraid, a rightwing podcast.

Santos also said he will run for re-election in his New York seat, which covers parts of Long Island and Queens.
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#3103759 13-Jul-2023 18:16

The Washington Post - Murdoch is realizing that he’s stuck with the monster he created

12 July 2023

Fox News spent the duration of Trump’s presidency defending him and undercutting his opponents out of fear that their viewership would bail. ...

After Trump lost the 2020 election, Fox News slowly started to move away from Trump - only to see their worst fears realized.

Trump lashed out, demanding that the network echo his false claims about election fraud. His base demanded the same ...

Fox hosts tried appeasement once again, giving oxygen to the disinformation. It ended up costing Fox three-quarters of a billion dollars. ...

It is not surprising, then, that two recent reports suggest that Rupert Murdoch is not enthusiastic about seeing Trump win the Republican nomination again in 2024. ...

Murdoch is reportedly frustrated with DeSantis and wants someone else who can challenge Trump.

Few people bear more blame for [Trump's] current position than Rupert Murdoch.

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#3103778 13-Jul-2023 19:19

Here's a deplorable who was at January 6 who wants money:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/-trump-protester-ray-epps-files-defamation-suit-fox-news-rcna93939

Funny how he says he was only there to "help" - I reckon he would have been even more help by not going there in the first place, maybe? 🙄 Just a thought.

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#3103903 14-Jul-2023 09:35

The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix - Is Stephen Miller still advising Trump?

Yes. When Trump was president, top aide Stephen Miller consistently espoused white-nationalist political beliefs, like the debunked notion that immigrants lead to rising crime. Since Trump lost, Miller has remained largely out of the public eye, but he’s been working furiously behind the scenes to advance his goals.

He launched a conservative legal organization, the American First Legal Foundation, to sue the Biden administration over policies it deems “radical left.” The organization recently managed to shut down a $4 billion program that would have helped minority farmers.

And Miller still appears to be in Trump’s inner circle. Late last year, Trump advisers told our colleagues that Miller stays in close touch with Trump, contributes to his speeches and gave significant input on his endorsements in the midterm elections.

wiki - Stephen Miller

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#3103930 14-Jul-2023 10:43

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The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix - Is Stephen Miller still advising Trump?

I have always been struck by his uncanny resemblance to Joseph Goebbels.

Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

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#3103932 14-Jul-2023 10:57

Rikkitic:

Sideface: The Washington Post - The 5-Minute Fix - Is Stephen Miller still advising Trump?

I have always been struck by his uncanny resemblance to Joseph Goebbels.

... and his similar CV :

wiki - Joseph Goebbels

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#3104141 14-Jul-2023 17:06

Former police chief who defended himself at trial is convicted of conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot (aol.com)

These idiots live in another dimension. How can they say the riot was a "false flag" while spouting things like "election was stolen" and posting photos on Instagram. He was obviously there, so how was that a "false flag"?

On Instagram, Hostetter posted a photo of himself and Taylor on the building's Upper West Terrace with rioters in the background. A message under the photo said, "This was the ‘shot heard ‘round the world!’ … the 2021 version of 1776. That war lasted 8 years. We are just getting warmed up.”

Hostetter used his closing arguments to spin conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. He falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump, portrayed himself as a victim of FBI corruption and referred to the mob's attack as a “federal setup” involving “crisis actors wearing costumes.” He downplayed violence at the Capitol, referring to the riot as “basically the equivalent of a three-hour hissy fit.”

Hostetter began teaching yoga after more than 20 years in law enforcement. In the spring of 2020, he founded a nonprofit called the American Phoenix Project. He used the tax-exempt organization to oppose COVID-19 restrictions and to advocate for violence against political opponents after the 2020 presidential election.

In November 2020, Hostetter drove from California to Washington to attend the “Million MAGA March" supporting Trump. On the way, he posted a video on his nonprofit's YouTube channel in which he expressed his belief that the election had been stolen from Trump and called for killing “tyrants and traitors.”

In December 2020, Hostetter's nonprofit hosted a “Stop the Steal” rally in Huntington Beach, California.

“The enemies and traitors of America both foreign and domestic must be held accountable. And they will,” he said at the rally. “There must be long prison terms, while execution is the just punishment for the ringleaders of this group.”

A day before the riot, Taylor gave a speech at a “Virginia Women for Trump” rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in which he called for violence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, prosecutors said.

“We are free Americans and in these streets, we will fight and we will bleed before we allow our freedom to be taken from us,” Taylor said, according to the indictment.

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#3104143 14-Jul-2023 17:14

https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x8b4/michael-protzman-negative48-jfk-qanon-dead >> sometimes it feels to me like some deplorables will believe anything you tell them (and try and grift from them).

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#3104296 15-Jul-2023 11:28

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville is single handily holding up military confirmations, around abortions rights.

And of course, two months before this recent interview, Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville used a local radio interview to criticize the government’s efforts to “get out the white extremists, the white nationalists” from the military.

Asked in the CNN interview, at the 7:30 mark, below if white nationalists should be allowed in the military, Tuberville, an avid supporter of Trump, said, “Well, they call them that. I call them Americans,” before going into a rambling aside about the January 6 insurrection.

“Right after that, we, our military and Secretary Austin, put out an order to stand down and all military across the country, saying we’re going to run out the white nationalists, people that don’t believe how we believe,” Tuberville continued. “And that’s not how we do it in this country.”

Invited to clarify his remarks a couple of days later, Tuberville did anything but. He said the military “cannot have racists”, but, when asked if white nationalists should serve in the military, said:

“You think a white nationalist is a Nazi? I don’t look at it like that,” the senator said.

“I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican. That’s what we’re called all the time. A Maga person.”

Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville doubles down on comments about White nationalists serving in the military

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#3104392 15-Jul-2023 15:35

A couple more deplorables here:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-sentence-florida-music-teacher/ >> this ex-teacher is so out of touch with reality, she blames everyone else for going to jail (another woe-is-me bs sob story)

https://washingtonpress.com/2023/07/14/pay-up-kari-lake-fined-thousands-over-frivolous-election-lawsuit/ >> HA HA! Election deniers have to pay up!

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