Monday, October 21, 2024 GOP Dumpster Fire: Racists, Liars, Grifters and Some Good News, But First ...

… an announcement:

I will be away for the week tending to the closing of my father’s estate. There are some pre-planned posts and I hope to be able to comment on your blogs, but we’ll see how smoothly this goes.

I should be back at my desk by November 4.

Oh, and I did this before leaving; have you voted yet?

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …

Mark Robinson, North Carolina GOP candidate for governor, suggested that people who can’t take care of their children should be sterilized in a series of social media posts from 2014 through 2019:

“If you need a court order to tell you to take care of your children, then you probably need an operation to make sure you don’t have any more. I said this once and I’m saying it again; A weak-minded, muddle-headed negro, ALWAYS thinks he and ‘his people’ are victims.”

Ouch.

The Felon spewing lies that FEMA was spent on illegal migrants:

“Many of them are murderers. Many of them are drug dealers. Many of them come out of mental institutions and insane asylums, and many of them are terrorists. And [Democrats] spend money to bring these people into our country and they don’t have money to take care of the people from North Carolina and other states.”

Of note, standing with The Felon was GOP North Carolina Representative Chuck Edwards who had denounced the lies about FEMA and relief workers.

If you thought JD Vance was gonna work hard for y’all if elected, think again.

Since becoming The Felon’s vice-presidential running mate in July Sofa Lorne hasn’t cast a single vote in Congress. He literally stopped working for his constituents the minute he kissed the, um, ring.

And while the 42 votes he missed were mostly to confirm federal appointees they also included measures to expand the child tax credit, create a right to in-vitro fertilization, and to extend government funding and avoid a partial government shutdown.

In addition, from April until June, Vance missed 22% of all votes and has never seen one of his sponsored bills passed by Congress. He has been in Congress since January 2023 and barely worked for those who voted for him.

Do we need someone like that a heartbeat away?

The Felon, once again pushing the most ridiculous lie:

“You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. I never saw—you don’t need any of them. You know, I want one person and the secretary to just make sure they’re teaching English. Okay. Give a little English. Okay. I say reading, writing, and arithmetic. No transgender, no operations. You know they take your kid. There are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. Okay. Without parental consent … Could you imagine without parental consent? At first, what I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No. It happens! It happens in areas where it happens. We’re not going to let it happen, but we are going to straighten out a lot.”

Oh, well, it happens in areas where it happens and yet this slobbering gelatinous bag of feces can’t name one child, one school, one case.

Tim Sheehy, GOP former Navy SEAL running for Senate in Montana, has said he was discharged from the military for medical reasons due to injuries he sustained on duty, but his discharge paperwork tells a different story.

Huh? What? How? He lied? Again.

The heavily redacted, two-page document obtained by NBC News indicates that Sheehy voluntarily resigned his commission and does not list any medical condition that forced him out of uniform.

This is another in a long line of lies by Tim Sheehy … like when he said he was shot in Afghanistan, which never happened … and when he claimed he was impoverished before starting a business even though his wealth was listed at $400K.

Lies. The GOP way.

Governor Gogo Boots, who begged people to vote for him for President last year, is now begging people not to write his name in when they vote as a misguided protest vote.

Does he really think, given his handling of two hurricanes in his state, that anyone would right his name in?

Weird AF.

The Felon’s national security advisor and QAnon nutbag Kash Patel, who is currently hawking $90 “COVID detox” pills, on that Felon is Hitler story:

“If they want to call him Hitler and try to print out more disinformation. I guess that’s all they got, because Kamala Harris could have brought home the hostages right now in Israel from a war she started with $7 billion she gave to Iran and she hasn’t brought home any of them. She started two more world wars.”

Kamala Harris started two world wars??? Where? When??? How???

In April 2020, Vanessa Guillén, an Army private, was bludgeoned to death and then her body burned by a fellow soldier and his girlfriend at Fort Hood, Texas. After her body was discovered The Felon invited the Guillén family to the White House and made this promise:

“If I can help you out with the funeral, I’ll help—I’ll help you with that. I’ll help you out. Financially, I’ll help you.”

In December 2020, The Felon asked for an update and was told that the funeral cost was $60,000, and he shrieked:

“It doesn’t cost 60,000 bucks to bury a fucking Mexican! Don’t pay it! Can you believe it? Fucking people, trying to rip me off.”

Anyone surprised that a draft dodging sociopath would say such a thing?

At a recent Unhinged Rally, The Felon boasted that his supporters had “no idea” what he did in the White House before launching into a nonsensical claim:

“I stopped wars with France. France. You know the France story? They were gonna charge us, think of this, 25% to all Amer—I have to protect American companies whether we like ’em or not, some of ’em I didn’t even like. They say McDonald’s was one of the most viewed things that they ever had. Can you believe, McDonald’s?”

A word salad from stopping wars … plural … with one of our allies, to McDonald’s.

Seriously Demented.

In Arizona, this week The Felon said America is “like a garbage can” for the rest of the world because of its border policies:

“They unleashed an army of migrant gangs waging a campaign of violence. We’re a dumping ground. We’re like a garbage can for the world.”

Fact: border crossings are at the lowest levels since Biden took office in 2021. In September, Border Patrol agents made fewer than 54,000 apprehensions of immigrants trying to cross the US, the fewest since August 2020, when The Felon was still in the White House.

The Felon always claims to hire only the best people and one of those people is John Kelly who now says The Felon is a fascist; so how does Demenetd DonOLD respond:

“Thank you for your support against a total degenerate named John Kelly, who made up a story out of pure … hatred. This guy had two qualities, which don’t work well together. He was tough and dumb … Even though I shouldn’t be wasting my time with him, I always feel it’s necessary to hit back in pursuit of THE TRUTH. John Kelly is a LOWLIFE, and a bad General, whose advice in the White House I no longer sought, and told him to MOVE ON!”

Only the best people until they realize who The Felon truly is, and then they leave their jobs and speak the truth and, to quote from a military film, he can’t handle the truth!

But then, how to explain that more than a dozen former Felon administration officials have come out in support of former chief of staff John Kelly?

In a new letter, shared exclusively with POLITICO, the former officials stated:

“The revelations General Kelly brought forward are disturbing and shocking. But because we know [The Felon] and have worked for and alongside him, we were sadly not surprised by what General Kelly had to say. We applaud General Kelly for highlighting in stark details the danger of a second [Felon] term. Like General Kelly, we did not take the decision to come forward lightly. Everyone should heed General Kelly’s warning.”

I guess that’s a dozen more people who were the best people for the job until they spoke out against a fascist.

The five men who comprise the Central Park Five, and now call themselves the Exonerated Five, have filed a lawsuit against The Felon for defamation in connection with his remarks during the presidential debate where The Felon said that the five men—Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise—pleaded guilty when they were tried in connection with the assault and rape of a woman who had been running in Central Park on April 19, 1989, and that the victim died.

In reality, all five men pleaded not guilty and the victim of the attack survived. And years later DNA evidence linked another man, a serial rapist, to the attack.

But to The Felon these five Black men should have been put to death and, in his mind, are still guilty.

Kamala Harris has a sweeping lead over The Felon—among voters who have already cast their ballots; Harris leads by 63%-34%, close to 2-1, among those who have already voted. One in five voters volunteered that “abortion rights/women’s rights” were their most important issue, second only to the economy/inflation.

The Dallas Morning News  has endorsed Democrat Colin Allred over Rafael ‘Ted’ Cruz in the coming election saying:

“Ted Cruz had the opportunity to support a step toward a solution with the bipartisan Lankford-Sinema bill that would have provided massive resources for border security. He refused, calling the bill a ‘steaming pile of crap.’ Allred worked in favor of it, recognizing it as an imperfect but necessary step forward. Cruz could have supported the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to help rebuild our country … but [he] refused. In the House, Allred joined with Republicans and Democrats in voting yes. Cruz could have supported the peaceful transfer of power in the 2020 presidential election … [but] … instead was the first senator to rise in objection to certifying the electoral vote and one of just six to do so. His actions were a catalyst for what became one of the worst days in our nation’s history."

Wouldn’t it be a wonderful day to see both The Felon and Fled Cruz lose?

Remember, the GOP is a party that promises but never delivers, a party of demented old men, and mascara-wearing RuPaul wannabes who hate women, the  LGBTQ+ community, immigrants, education and members of our military.

We don't need that, so ... 

GOP Dumpster Fire: Liars, Racists, DEI Hires and Frauds

There’s an old saying about when someone shows you who they are, believe them; and when someone says something, openly and publicly, believe that, too, and not the spin machine that envelopes the liar afterwards.

Here are a few examples of liars, and morons, and weirdos showing us who they are …

Former U.S. Representative and Liar, Kitara Ravache AKA George Santos, is requesting a partially anonymous jury while federal prosecutors are pushing to admit as evidence some of his past campaign lies in his upcoming fraud trial.

Santos’ lawyers argued that individual jurors’ identities should only be known by the judge, the two sides and their attorneys due to the extraordinary level of media attention around the case and their client because the “risk of public ridicule could influence the individual jurors ability to decide Santos’ case solely on the facts and law as presented in Court.”

At trial  prosecutors want to tell the jury about Kitara's lies: including falsely claiming to have graduated from Baruch College; falsely claiming to have graduated from New York University; falsely claiming to have been employed at Citigroup; falsely claiming to have been employed at Goldman Sachs. They said it would “establish the defendant’s state of mind in connection with the charged crimes.”

Sounds fair to me.

Back to banning books in Iowa after the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a district judge’s earlier decision that temporarily halted key parts of a law, which the GOP-led Legislature and GOP Governor Kim Reynolds approved in 2023.

The law also forbids teachers from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with younger students.

Books and LGBTQ+ students are bad but hate and ignorance rule in Iowa.

Michele Morrow, the Republican nominee to run K-12 public education in North Carolina, filmed a video after attending the January 6 riots urging The Felon put “the Constitution to the side” and use the military to stay in power.

In a deleted Facebook livestream Morrow called for mass arrests of anyone who helped certify the 2020 election. Morrow had previously called for the public execution of Barack Obama and the death of Joe Biden and other prominent Democrats in comments on a since-deleted X account.

And she has a shot at running schools in North Carolina?

Red States that ban or restrict abortion have flooded anti-abortion counseling centers with nearly $500 million in taxpayer funding since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago.

When Florida passed its six-week abortion ban last year, it allocated $25 million to crisis pregnancy centers and Tennessee dedicated $20 million to the effort last year, up from just $283,000 in the year prior. But no state has spent more in taxpayer funding than Texas, which accounts for almost half of the total spending. The state agency that oversees the program acknowledged it doesn’t monitor how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars are being spent.

For those unaware, “crisis pregnancy centers” lure women in with deceptive marketing hinting that they provide abortions.

JD “Guyliner” Vance marched up to Air Force 2, Kamala Harris’ plane, uninvited and planned to give reporters a show as he confronted the vice president but his power play, his little boy ego trip, failed once he learned Harris was not present.

“I just wanted to check out my future plane.”

He still thinks he has a shot? He’s been fvcking too many couches.

The Felon’s campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung rushed to defend JD for the unsuccessful storming of Air Force 2 by saying:

“Make sure AF2 is deep cleaned because Lord only knows what [Kamala Harris] and her team have done on there. The smell alone on that plane must be crazy.”

Cheung’s post appears to lean into racial stereotypes but since he works for a racist, he might be a racist.

Karoline Leavitt, on Fox News Entertainment:

“Kamala Harris picking Tim Walz as her running mate … and her decision not to choose Josh Shapiro. Let’s be honest, she did not choose him because he is a Jewish American and has expressed strong support for Israel in the past … and Kamala Harris continues to cow-toe to the far-left pro-Hamas sympathizers in this great country.”

Clearly, she’s never heard “kowtow” out loud.

That’s Fox, illiterate blond DEI hires.

JD Vance has attacked the military record of Tim Walz during accusing him of “stolen valor” claiming Walz “abandoned” his unit in the National Guard before it was deployed to Iraq.

Tim Walz served in the National Guard for 24 years reaching the rank of commander sergeant major and was deployed to Italy. He decided to leave the National Guard in 2005 to pursue a political career by running for Congress.

 Vance served a single four-year enlistment in the Marines, where he worked for the press office.

He was a secretary, and he wants to be second in command to a man who avoided service five times because his feet hurt..

More lies about Tim Walz being spread by the right:

LIE: One claim is that Walz told CNN that he wants to invest in a “ladder factory” to help people scale the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and illegally enter the U.S.

TRUTH: Posts are misrepresenting a comment Walz made on CNN using a clip from the segment to make it seem as if Walz was advocating for illegal immigration when he was actually discussing how to prevent this from happening.

LIE: Walz changed the Minnesota flag so that it resembles the Somali flag.

TRUTH: Minnesota did unfurl a new state flag and accompanying seal in May and picked one designed by Andrew Prekker as the basis for the flag. Prekker said Walz had nothing to do with the creation of the flag, and Somalia had nothing to do with the flag design.

If you can’t win on truth the cultists resort to the lie.

Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has ordered hospitals in the state to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to people living in the U.S. illegally.

It’s fearmongering that Abbott and the GOP are involved in; they off no solutions to the border issue, just razor wire and hate.

Montana Republican Tim Sheehy, running for US Senate, says he started an aerial firefighting business in his barn and built it into a publicly traded company on the front lines of increasingly dangerous wildfires. But reports filed with the SEC tell a different story about Bridger Aerospace.

Bridger is facing a cash crunch so dire that there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue” after it $77.4 million last year and $20.1 million in the first three months of 2024.

If that’s what the GOP calls a successful business …

The Felon has announced that he will debate Kamala Harris three times with the first Debate “on Fox News on September 4th, 2024 [and] the second Debate … Fake News ABC, home of George Slopadopoulos … on September 10th, 2024 [and] the third Debate will take place on NBC … on September 25th, 2024.

As of today there’s no evidence that Fox News, NBC, or the Harris campaign have confirmed The Felon’s claim.

I’m sure y’all have heard of the latest attack on Tim Walz by the right, dubbing him “Tampon Tim” in reference to a new state law providing free menstrual products to school students. 

The nickname was trending nationally on X, with Chaya Raichik whose scurrilous “Libs of TikTok” account was one of the first to amplify it and it was picked up by former Fox News Entertainment host Megyn She’ll  Say Anything If It Gets Her Clicks Kelly endorsed the nickname on X.

Trouble is, shocking, that information is a lie; these free menstrual products are only available for free in unisex bathrooms, girls’ bathrooms, the school nurse or the front office.

When called out for her lies Raichik responded with “there’s no law against lying” but Megyn Kelly, another blond DEI hire, won’t admit she’s a liar.

Asked if Kamala Harris is Black, JD Vance said:

“I believe Kamala Harris is whatever she says she is, but I believe, importantly, that [The Felon] is right that she's a chameleon.”

Doublespeak from the man who says many things and then changes his mind.

And since he can't make up his mind, and since his President is a delusional old man, perhaps it's best that we all ...

This These Bitches

Remember This Bitch? GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy who claimed he’d been wounded in battle and still had the bullet in his arm to prove it? Except he told a park ranger he’d shot himself when he dropped his pistol;? And a doctor who saw the X-ray of the bullet said it was from a handgun and not a military type of weapon? Remember that Bitch?

Well, he got all kinds of pissy when people suggested  he made the whole thing up, but now comes a National Park Service report that includes a detailed written statement from Sheehy to a law enforcement officer regarding Sheehy having accidentally shot himself on October 18, 2015; Sheehy apologized and asked for leniency in 2015.

Sheehy now says that story, the one he apologized for and asked for leniency about was a lie. He has told voters he has a bullet in his arm from his time serving in Afghanistan because that sounds better than shooting yourself in the arm.

Liar.

The Diocese of Brooklyn, led by Bishop Robert J. Brennan, has entered into an agreement with the Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James regarding the diocese’s two-decade child protection policy. Both organizations have issued a press release on this matter.

But according to Hate Group, AKA The Catholic League, spokesperson, Bill Donohue, the Office of the Attorney General’s [OAG] account misrepresents the terms of the agreement reached with the Diocese of Brooklyn [DB]. Donohue says the OAG contends that “the agreement requires the Diocese to take significant action to prevent and address allegations of clergy sexual abuse” and make reforms such as “Installing an independent, secular monitor who will oversee the Diocese’s compliance with policies and procedures … ” but Donohue also claims it was the Diocese which proposed the appointment of an independent third party to monitor compliance, and then drops this whopper:

“As I recount in my book, The Truth about Clergy Sexual Abuse: Clarifying the Facts and the Causes, there is no institution in the nation that has a better record in combating the sexual abuse of minors today than the Catholic Church. This is not open to debate: the data are conclusive. And this has been true for decades.”

Wait, so the group that has paid out hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars to settle cases against pedophile priests—who were often shielded from prosecution by being moved to different parishes or even sent to the Vatican to avoid arrest and prosecution—has the best record in combating sexual abuse of minors?

Oh, Bill, you and your Catholic League and your Catholic Church and all your pedophile priests can fuck all the way off.

GOP Senator Josh Hawley—the guy who fist bumped the insurrectionists on January 6 but was then seen on video scurrying through the Capitol building as the rioters busted the windows and entered the building—went on Fox News to complain that American infrastructure is in disrepair; roads are failing, bridges are collapsing, and planes are falling apart in the sky.

Hawley, in case you forgot, because he clearly did, voted against that massive bipartisan infrastructure bill that passed in 2021; at the time, Hawley called it a “radical left woke politics bill.”

This is the problem with the GOP: the lies, the lies, the lies.

This Bitch: Tim Sheehy

Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL who is the Republican candidate in the Montana US Senate race that could determine control of the chamber.

So, what about him? Well, Sheehy often tells the story of a gunshot wound he received in combat that left a bullet lodged in his right arm as evidence of his toughness; in December campaign event posted on social media, Sheehy pointed to his right forearm and said:

“I got thick skin—though it’s not thick enough. I have a bullet stuck in this arm still from Afghanistan.”

At least that’s what he says today, but back in October 2015, over a year after he left active duty, he told a different story saying that, after a family visit to Glacier National Park, he told a National Park Service ranger that he accidentally shot himself in the right arm that day after his Colt .45 revolver fell and discharged while he was loading his vehicle; the park ranger says Sheehy showed him a handgun with a missing bullet. And a trauma surgeon says that an X-ray provided by Sheehy shows an apparent wound from a handgun, not a military weapon.

The best part of the story is now Sheehy is saying that the story he told the park ranger was a lie, and that he was shot in Afghanistan during combat, but why the lie? I mean, does he just walk up to random park rangers, show them a handgun missing a bullet and say he accidentally shot himself when he dropped the gun? Why do that? That story means nothing and does nothing to boost his own sense of importance so why tell it?

Perhaps because it was the truth but wouldn’t help him win an election . Oh, and he’s a Republican, so lying seems to come easy and he’s also, This Bitch.