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#3279420 6-Sep-2024 07:31

Man, I can't believe they held the antifa conference call without me. Jerks.

The video below talks about "DCF Guns" owner Joe Oltmann. He called for the killing of President Biden.

His daily political program, streams online and on MyPillowGuy Mike Lindell’s far-right broadcast network, FrankSpeech.

Election conspiracy theorist fined $1,000 a day until he discloses evidence to court

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#3279430 6-Sep-2024 09:00

Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are right-wingers with a laundry list of grifts, and are convicted felons.

They pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with a racist robocall scheme in 2020 trying to dissuade black voters.

The bumbling idiot Jacob Wohl is, he once famously registered an illicit web site using a fake name, but his real address and gave his mother's phone number to try to hide their identity. His mother voicemail greeting gave her last name, Wohl. Ooops.

They started a new business venture that claim to use artificial intelligence to help companies lobby politicians.

Of course they used pseudonyms, even with their employees.

Politico: Convicted fraudsters launch AI lobbying firm using fake names

A Washington startup pitched as a service to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known, far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons who are using pseudonyms in their new business, according to four former employees as well as photo and email evidence.

LobbyMatic was founded last year by Jacob Wohl, who in 2022 was convicted along with his longtime associate Jack Burkman of felony telecom fraud after running a robocall campaign in largely Black neighborhoods in several states telling people not to vote by mail. An Ohio judge ordered them to spend 500 hours registering people to vote, and the Federal Communications Commission fined them $5 million.

In his role as a founder and CEO of the new firm, Wohl uses the name “Jay Klein,” according to the former employees and emails obtained by POLITICO. Burkman uses the pseudonym “Bill Sanders,” the former employees said.

LobbyMatic, whose website does not list any company leadership, temporarily signed up at least three brand-name clients: Toyota, consulting firm Boundary Stone Partners and drug company Lantheus
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#3279591 6-Sep-2024 20:40

The Independent UK: ‘Save your fake prayers’: Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for response to Georgia mass shooting

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been slammed after responding to the school shooting in her home state of Georgia with a simple call for prayers without mentioning the issue of gun violence and her longstanding opposition to gun control.

On Wednesday, two teachers and two students were killed at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia. Nine were sent to hospital while dozens more were wounded.

The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, has been charged with four counts of murder in the shooting. The FBI had already noticed him over a year ago when he reportedly made online threats with images of firearms.

“Let us join together in prayer for the victims of the school shooting at Apalachee High School and their families just as these students of AHS circled together in prayer today,” Greene wrote on X on Wednesday afternoon.

Her bio on the platform states that she’s “100 percent Pro-Gun.”
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In 2019, Greene filmed herself following Parkland school shooting survivor and anti-gun violence activist David Hogg, calling him a “coward.” She once wrote on Facebook that the Parkland shooting was a “false flag” operation, something she tried to deny during an interview with 60 Minutes.
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Hogg was one of many X users who responded to Greene’s call for prayers on Wednesday.

“How about you actually do something about guns,” he said.
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#3279596 6-Sep-2024 21:00

kingdragonfly: The Independent UK: ‘Save your fake prayers’: Marjorie Taylor Greene slammed for response to Georgia mass shooting

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has been slammed after responding to the school shooting in her home state of Georgia with a simple call for prayers without mentioning the issue of gun violence and her longstanding opposition to gun control.

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#3279606 6-Sep-2024 21:31

YouTube told me a teacher was imprisoned for refusing to use pronouns. I'm not going to mention the name.

Ten seconds checking on Google tells me the teacher was fired after making a complete and unnecessary public ass of himself and his students during a religious service at the school. The teacher was eventually asked to leave. Fast forward a couple of years and the teacher continues to turn up at the school and continues to try to get in to continue his campaign. Unsurprisingly the teacher has a court order preventing him from going near the school and should not be there, so after several warnings he's arrested and imprisoned.

Ironically, in the pictures it looks like exactly the kind of school where pupils must call the teacher "Sir" and "Mr".

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#3279609 6-Sep-2024 21:59

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YouTube told me a teacher was imprisoned for refusing to use pronouns. I'm not going to mention the name.

Ten seconds checking on Google tells me the teacher was fired after making a complete and unnecessary public ass of himself and his students during a religious service at the school. The teacher was eventually asked to leave. Fast forward a couple of years and the teacher continues to turn up at the school and continues to try to get in and continue his campaign. Unsurprisingly the teacher has a court order preventing him from going near the school and should not be there, so after several warnings he's arrested and imprisoned.

Ironically, in the pictures it looks like exactly the kind of school where pupils must call the teacher "Sir" and "Mr".

Surprisingly it wasn't the US. The High Court judge said “it is an insult to every law-abiding citizen for someone who is the subject of a court order to decide, unilaterally, that it should be ignored.”

He has continued to show up at the school, and has spent more than 400 days in prison after defying a court order to stay away. He was released in June, after the school year ended, from a stint in Prison and began going to the school again when the term began in late August.

Naturally he accused the school, and its teacher, of "teaching them such satanic, satanic wickedness"

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#3279817 7-Sep-2024 22:48

"Texas Sues for Access to Records of Women Seeking Out-of-State Abortions"

The lawsuit takes aim at federal privacy rules, including one enacted this year that Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, called “a backdoor attempt at weakening Texas’ laws.”

Texas has sued to block federal rules that prohibit investigators from viewing the medical records of women who travel out of state to seek abortions where the procedure is legal.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday in Federal District Court in Lubbock, targets medical privacy regulations that were issued in 2000, and takes aim at a rule issued in April that specifically bans disclosing medical records for criminal or civil investigations into “the mere act of seeking, obtaining, providing or facilitating reproductive health care.”

Some Republicans seem to be the worst kind of people.

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#3279823 8-Sep-2024 00:10

freitasm:

Some Republicans seem to be the worst kind of people.

They sure do want to control what women do with their own bodies.

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#3279831 8-Sep-2024 07:48

Rikkitic:

freitasm:

Some Republicans seem to be the worst kind of people.

They sure do want to control what women do with their own bodies.

So much for "we're making sure you take back your freedoms!" I guess it's only freedoms that they care about 🙄

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#3279959 8-Sep-2024 13:59

Last year, Tucker Carlson cut ties with Tucker Carlson, reportedly fired by Rupert Murdoch.

It happened shortly after Fox News agreed to pay voting equipment company Dominion $787.5m to settle a high-profile defamation lawsuit.

Carlson’s stunning departure is reportedly connected to a lawsuit filed by his former senior booking producer Abby Grossberg, who claimed she faced sexism and a hostile work environment.

Vox: Conservatives are shocked — shocked! — that Tucker Carlson is soft on Nazis

On Monday, Tucker Carlson hosted an amateur historian named Darryl Cooper on his show to discuss the history of World War II. The result was an extended exercise in Nazi sympathizing with little pushback from Carlson, who called Cooper (who tweets under the handle @martyrmade) “the most important popular historian working in the United States today.”

The interview poses a major test to the Republican Party. Though Carlson has been off of Fox News for over a year, broadcasting on Twitter/X instead, he remains influential in the party. He delivered a primetime speech at the 2024 RNC and reportedly played a major role in the JD Vance vice presidential pick. Now that he’s crossing the reddest of red lines — actively apologizing for Adolf Hitler — can the party cut ties?

The answer has been a resounding no. The Trump camp — which sets the tone for the entire party — has so far done nothing to distance itself from the increasingly toxic Carlson.
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#3280075 8-Sep-2024 18:41

A funny story out of the US Bible belt, and of course there's sin involved.

Not mentioned in the story, there's at least one photo with the cheerful Republican with his arm around the porn-store employee.

: Mark Robinson Really Used to Love Porn, According to Guys at the Porn Store

If you’re familiar with Mark Robinson, the Republican candidate for governor in North Carolina, it’s probably for his hard-line stance on abortion and his outlandish claims on everything from Black Panther (made by “an agnostic Jew and put to film by satanic Marxists”) to the Holocaust (“hogwash”). But get ready for a new and slightly more fun reason: In the 1990s and early 2000s, the Evangelical Christian used to go to the pornography store a lot. Like, a lot.

That’s according to a former employee at 24-hour porn-video shops in Greensboro, who spoke with the North Carolina investigative website The Assembly. He says Robinson was coming in to watch videos in a private booth as many as five nights a week. The man, Louis Money, said that at one of the stores he worked at, Gents, patrons could buy videos for $50 each or “preview” them in private booths for $8. “Every night that I worked, which would have been five nights a week, I saw Mark,” Money said. “He was spending a good amount of money.” Robinson previewed at least two tapes a night, per Money. Five other customers and employees confirmed Robinson’s frequent presence; one said Robinson would even bring in pizza for the fellas.
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#3280095 8-Sep-2024 19:21

LOL this clown. I really, really hope he loses, big time. He has some very warped ideas on what the world should be like, especially around the treatment of women (makes me quite mad actually) 😠

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#3280121 8-Sep-2024 22:37

Just to be clear, I agree with Bernie

Yes. Most of us [Americans] can go out there and vote. But what most of us CANNOT do is...

Senator Bernie Sanders

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#3281523 12-Sep-2024 17:10

Can we at least pretend that the ultimate authority on justice in the US is maintaining judicial independence and
promotes the rule of law, ensuring that laws are applied consistently and and fairly?

Propublica: Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much”

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s ethical lapses.

Thomas expressed her appreciation in an email sent to Kelly Shackelford, an influential litigator whose clients have won cases at the Supreme Court. Shackelford runs the First Liberty Institute, a $25 million-a-year organization that describes itself as “the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans.”

Shackelford read Thomas’ email aloud on a July 31 private call with his group’s top donors.
Thomas wrote that First Liberty’s opposition to court-reform proposals gave a boost to certain judges. According to Shackelford, Thomas wrote in all caps: “YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES. CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH.”

Shackelford said he saw Thomas’ support as evidence that judges, who “can’t go out into the political sphere and fight,” were thankful for First Liberty’s work to block Supreme Court reform. “It’s neat that, you know, those of you on the call are a part of protecting the future of our court, and they really appreciate it,” he said.

On the same call, Shackelford attacked Justice Elena Kagan as “treasonous” and “disloyal” after she endorsed an enforcement mechanism for the court’s newly adopted ethics code in a recent public appearance. He said that such an ethics code would “destroy the independence of the judiciary.” (This past weekend, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she too was open to an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court.)
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#3281558 12-Sep-2024 20:51

James was asked this post-debate:

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