Another scumbag politician.

[JerryBaumchen 874]

Hi folks,

The worst of the worst:  Blessinger is accused of allowing or compelling the child to engage in sexually explicit conduct for someone to watch or record between Jan. 1, 2017, and Jan. 10, 2021, and intending to distribute the recording, court records allege.

Ex-board member of Our Children Oregon accused of child sexual abuse - oregonlive.com

IMO if found guilty, no penalty is too much.

Jerry Baumchen

 

[kallend 1,345]

Another ignorant jerk:

Guardian, 5/14/2023

Mexicans “would be eating cat food out of a can and living in a tent behind an Outback” Steakhouse restaurant if it were not for their nation’s proximity to the US, and their country should be invaded because of the presence of drug cartels there, the US senator John Neely Kennedy said.

The Louisiana Republican’s racist remarks drew a strong condemnation from Mexico’s foreign affairs secretary, Marcelo Ebrard, who called Kennedy “a profoundly ignorant man”. Mexico’s president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, meanwhile, urged the 37 million Americans of Mexican descent – along with other Latinos in the US – “not to vote for people with this very arrogant, very offensive and very foolish mentality” in the future.

Kennedy’s rant came on Wednesday during a Senate appropriations subcommittee hearing that in part focused on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s budget. Kennedy told DEA administrator Anne Milgram that she and other members of the Biden White House should pressure López Obrador to let US military and law enforcement officials storm into his country “and stop the cartels”.

[JoeWeber 1,866]

On 5/12/2023 at 7:17 PM, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi folks,

Add one more idiot to this list:  I look at a white nationalist as a Trump Republican . . . That's what we're called all the time. A MAGA Person

At least, he is truthful.

Tuberville slams effort to expel extremists from the military : NPR

Jerry Baumchen

This Tuberville, (tatertown, right) is beyond the pale. How can anyone identify as a Republican when the party is riddled with these sorts of bigots?

[kallend 1,345]

26 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

This Tuberville, (tatertown, right) is beyond the pale. How can anyone identify as a Republican when the party is riddled with these sorts of bigots?

Apparently the GOP decided some time ago that the bigot/poorly educated voting bloc was big enough to be worth pandering to.

[wolfriverjoe 1,094]

26 minutes ago, JoeWeber said:

This Tuberville, (tatertown, right) is beyond the pale. How can anyone identify as a Republican when the party is riddled with these sorts of bigots?

Ummmm...

Because they're the same sort of bigot?

I've said it before.

I honestly thought the racial hatred & bigotry was more or less done.

Not racism, not abuse of power, not injustice.
But most of the virulent, violent hatred. 
And not completely done, but mostly over. 

And then Obama got elected. 

And so many people who had been required to pretend to be nice just completely lost their shit.

All the 'Birther' garbage. All the "Secret Muslim" crap. All the stupid insults and criticisms of both of the Obamas.

The people who had hated people with different color skin, but had been forced by 'polite society' to mute those views came out from under their rocks and went apeshit.
Turns out they've always been there, but weren't able to be 'their real selves' in public.

Then Trump saw his opportunity. Remember his private detective who was going to provide earthshaking revelations 'in two weeks'?

Trump gained traction with his hate and vitriol, got the bigots and assholes wound up and the MAGA moron movement took off. 

Trump and his idiot followers then proceeded to hijack the R party. Which resulted in Bobo, Gym Jordan and Empty Gee gaining power.

People like Liz Cheney decided they weren't very nice people and jumped ship, to their detriment.
Keep in mind that Liz is Darth Cheney's daughter. And Trump is too evil for her.

But not for the MAGA morons, and the politicians that pander to them.

[Phil1111 691]

2 hours ago, wolfriverjoe said:

Ummmm...

Because they're the same sort of bigot?.....

But not for the MAGA morons, and the politicians that pander to them.

Well I say the same things from time to time. Mostly out of frustration. BIGUN isn't a bigot. There are other republicans as well that swallow their pride and vote republican. Some will go out that same week to do outreach volunteer work. Some today are helping immigrant claimants at the border. More than many democrats.

Racist, bigots, etc. I'd go with 20% of the GOP depending on how riled up I am about some latest outrage.

[ryoder 1,063]

Oh, please let this be true!

Giuliani Sued For Demanding Sex From Staffer After Taking Viagra: Recording

[JoeWeber 1,866]

On 5/14/2023 at 7:09 PM, wolfriverjoe said:

Because they're the same sort of bigot?

Not really. Some just cling to an old identity that maybe once made sense but, under close examination now, actually doesn't fit. What really is a Conservative, these days? Are they only Republicans and never Democrats? Surely not. It used to be being Conservative was about economic principles. Now its more about who has fun under the sheets with whom and on which day sometimes, too. That's why I object to folks identifying as Republican thinking they're identifying as economic conservatives when the unfortunate downstream effect is they're giving cover to bigots simply by standing under the same tent.  Myself, I'm a piss poor Liberal even though I so identify as a personal matter. I only identify as a Democrat as a counter to at least one voter who identifies as a Republican because, like it or not, those numbers matter. 

[billvon 1,945]

3 hours ago, JoeWeber said:

Not really. Some just cling to an old identity that maybe once made sense but, under close examination now, actually doesn't fit. What really is a Conservative, these days? Are they only Republicans and never Democrats? Surely not. It used to be being Conservative was about economic principles. 

Well, yeah.  And 150 years ago, republicans were the urban younger voters who opposed slavery and the rural "common sense" democrats thought it was really a good thing for blacks.  Things change, and parties change with the times to try to attract the most voters without alienating their base.

[billeisele 115]

On 2/10/2023 at 7:58 AM, Stumpy said:

Can you not just trim florida off and float it out into the ocean? Seems like you'd get rid of a lot of the crazy.

You can't say that. CA earned that comment many years ago and continues to claim their ownership of it. 

[gowlerk 1,610]

9 minutes ago, billeisele said:

You can't say that. CA earned that comment many years ago and continues to claim their ownership of it. 

It’s worth remembering that only Florida is in a death struggle with Mickey Mouse. He lives on peacefully in Anaheim.

[Stumpy 196]

57 minutes ago, billeisele said:

You can't say that. CA earned that comment many years ago and continues to claim their ownership of it. 

Nah - from an external perspective (and having spent plenty of time in both states) california is weird, and quite a lot neurotic. Florida is full on, card carrying, screaming at the moon crazy.

[kallend 1,345]

Want an education?  California has Caltech, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley  (86 Nobel laureates).  FL has . . . . .. . . football?

[gowlerk 1,610]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

FL has . . . . .. . . football?

Hockey. The Panthers are in the conference finals. 

[billvon 1,945]

2 hours ago, kallend said:

Want an education?  California has Caltech, UCLA, Stanford, Berkeley  (86 Nobel laureates).  FL has . . . . .. . . football?

And lots of awesome news stories that start "Last night, Florida man . . . ."

[lippy 457]

4 hours ago, kallend said:

FL has . . . . .. . . football?

Two words: meth-gators

[normiss 422]

26 minutes ago, lippy said:

Two words: meth-gators

That's methed up. Man.

That's FloriDUH!

[billvon 1,945]

And on Monday Rudy Giuliani's assistant, Noelle Dunphy, filed sexual harassement and wage-theft charges against him.  The complaint listed these gems:

Giuliani would “point to his erect penis, and tell her that he could not do any work until ‘you take care of this.’”
Giuliani drank “morning, noon, and night, and was frequently intoxicated” and “unpredictable.”
Giuliani would go on “alcohol-drenched rants that included sexist, racist, and antisemitic remarks.”
Dunphy claims Giuliani demanded oral sex when he was on phone calls with Donald Trump because it made him “feel like Bill Clinton.”
When Dunphy worked remotely during the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020, Giuliani demanded that she appear naked during videoconference calls.
Giuliani didn’t pay Dunphy for her work, promising he'd pay her as soon as his divorce was finalized.

Dunphy says that not only does she have recordings of many of these, he gave her access to his email account - and she kept a record of his emails.

Sounds like the trial will be a slam dunk.  Biggest issue may be that it gets too gross for jurors to listen to.

[jakee 981]

28 minutes ago, billvon said:

Dunphy says that not only does she have recordings of many of these, he gave her access to his email account - and she kept a record of his emails.

Sounds like the trial will be a slam dunk.  Biggest issue may be that it gets too gross for jurors to listen to.

Apart from all the horrendously pervy shit, the biggest bombshell is the allegation (backed up with commmunications) that Giuliani and Trump were conspiring to sell pardons for two million bucks. Really interesting bit was Giuliani telling Dunphy to send those enquiries directly to him instead of the Pardon Office in order to evade any FOIA requests regarding those dodgy pardons in future. If I remember correctly, Trump did indeed sign a bunch of pardons which were not vetted by the Pardon Office first. 

Edited May 17 by jakee

[SkyDekker 900]

3 minutes ago, jakee said:

Apart from all the horrendously pervy shit, the biggest bombshell is the allegation (backed up with commmunications) that Giuliani and Trump were conspiring to sell pardons for two million bucks. Really interesting bit was Giuliani telling Dunphy to send those enquiries directly to him instead of the Pardon Office in order to evade any FOIA requests regarding those dodgy pardons in future. If I remember correctly, Trump did indeed sign a bunch of pardons which were not vetted by the Pardon Office first. 

The worst part is, I am not sure it is illegal.

[ryoder 1,063]

3 minutes ago, jakee said:

Apart from all the horrendously pervy shit, the biggest bombshell is the allegation (backed up with commmunications) that Giuliani and Trump were conspiring to sell pardons for two million bucks. Really interesting bit was Giuliani telling Dunphy to send those enquiries directly to him instead of the Pardon Office in order to evade any FOIA requests regarding those dodgy pardons in future. If I remember correctly, Trump did indeed sign a bunch of pardons which were not vetted by the Pardon Office first. 

"I've got this thing and it's fucking golden, and, uh, uh, I'm just not giving it up for fuckin' nothing."

The practice of Presidential pardons needs to be abolished. It is just a mechanism by which a crook can lure in his lackeys to help in his crimes, letting them get off scot free.

[ryoder 1,063]

Lauren Boebert files for divorce from husband

I'm quite surprised, because I thought those two hicks were made for each other.

[JerryBaumchen 874]

7 minutes ago, ryoder said:

Lauren Boebert files for divorce from husband

I'm quite surprised, because I thought those two hicks were made for each other.

Hi Robert,

Just another nail in the GOP Family Values coffin.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  I pity the poor bastard who gets her next; if anyone.

PPS)  No ad blocker here:  Rep. Lauren Boebert Files for Divorce (businessinsider.com)

 

Edited May 17 by JerryBaumchen

[ryoder 1,063]

2 minutes ago, JerryBaumchen said:

Hi Robert,

Just another nail in the GOP Family Values coffin.

Jerry Baumchen

PS)  I pity the poor bastard who gets her next; if anyone.

 

Maybe she discovered he voted for Adam Frisch...

In other news: Guys, she's available!

[SkyDekker 900]

8 minutes ago, ryoder said:

Lauren Boebert files for divorce from husband

I'm quite surprised, because I thought those two hicks were made for each other.

She didn't chase Jesus enough

 

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