December 6, 2022

“To sum up what we learned: Big penis, little news, First Amendment not under threat.”

Moody apparently bought into the conspiracy theory.”

“Republicans have created this kind of self-perpetuating machine that is voter proof.”

“The presence of armed vigilantes outside of voting places is a scene directly out of the 1876 ‘redemption’ of the South.”

“We said, ‘We love you, we love you, we love you, but if you could hide here in this corner that would be awesome.’”

It’s hard knowing that I’m carrying it to bury it.

“This is because Republicans, on top of all their other structural advantages, have performed an ideological trick on the entire country where they always an have extra little bit of Americanness: even when in the minority, they have a special something that makes it wrong to cross them.”

Misinformation-spouting celebrities seem to be a GOP favorite. This move is very on brand for both Oz and the Republican Party.”

“She joins a long list of Republicans who have recently ‘voted no and taken the dough’ in refusing to support investments in their communities to please their far-right base, but then being the first in line to take credit.”

“The writing on the wall is clear: DACA is coming to an end.”

“What it’s designed to do is maximize rhetorical violence to desensitize people to future physical violence and to increase the potential for that violence to occur. ”

“The FBI said it received credible information about a ‘broad’ threat to synagogues in New Jersey, a warning that prompted some municipalities to send extra police officers to guard houses of worship.”

“Graffiti was found along the Bethesda Trolley Trail outside Washington, D.C., depicting a swastika and the statement, ‘No mercy for the Jews,’ along with several crude hangman-style drawings of figures hanging from a gallows.”

“Details of Blanchard’s arrest shared in documents online by attorney Tim Anderson show that he was texting with the detective posing as the 17-year-old girl prior to his arrest.”

Keep women, and young voters, and voters of color, out of your modeling about rational self-interest, and you will keep being surprised.”

On the same night they were sworn in to the Berkeley County School Board, a slate of candidates backed by Moms for Liberty and the local Republican Party fired the district’s first Black superintendent, fired the district legal counsel, voted to cut property taxes, approved a ban on ‘critical race theory’ in the classroom, and set up a panel to begin reviewing and banning books containing sexual content that they deem inappropriate.”

“One-hundred million people, 41 percent of all US adults, owe some amount of medical debt, with the average amount owed being about $2,400.”

If a day comes when others will have to understand, please explain it for me.”

October 21, 2022

This abstract equality is, of course, inequality.”

“I was left wanting to either get so sick that I almost died or, praying for my baby’s heart to stop beating — this baby that I had wanted and worked to have for 18 months.”

He didn’t accept responsibility for the kid we did have together, and now he isn’t accepting responsibility for the one that we didn’t have.”

“The only problem is that the child in question was born years after the abortion.”

“In Herschel’s ‘redemption’ ad he says he even wrote a book about how he was redeemed. The book came out in 2008. He pressured this woman to abort their kids in 2009 and 2011.”

“It belongs to these gentlemen right here, who are state legislators representing you. That is the best way I think, as a man, that women get the best voice.”

“As a result of the incident, the Maricopa County Colleges police officers association has withdrawn their endorsement of Kaufman, who announced a suspension of his campaign stating that ‘a personal legal matter has recently arisen.'”

You’re on tape, man. It’ll be like 30 minutes and we’re all going to know you’re lying.”

“One of two Texas brothers who authorities say opened fire on a group of migrants getting water near the U.S.-Mexico border, killing one and injuring another, was warden at a detention facility with a history of abuse allegations.”

“McConnell and the rest of the GOP seem intent, in fact perfectly well-suited, on extending the very American tradition of ignoring anti-Asian racism.”

“It’s telling that Youngkin can so easily condemn critical race theory but not an actual critical racist.”

“Reuters documented multiple incidents of intimidation involving an expanding army of election observers, many of them recruited by prominent Republican Party figures and activists echoing Trump’s false theories about election fraud. ”

“Still, Arnold’s ties to Washington’s Republican Party extend beyond a one-time payment.”

Mississippi had the highest homicide rate at 20.50 murders per 100,000 residents, followed by Louisiana at 15.79, Kentucky at 14.32, Alabama at 14.2, and Missouri at 14.”

“I repeat: The attorneynot the priest and not the school and not the Catholic Church—was fined $400,000 for alerting people about Hart’s past actions.”

“Our country is currently the least safe to give birth and be born in among industrialized countries.”

“A Minnesota Republican candidate in a newly drawn House district encouraged people to fly the Confederate flag, questioned President Obama’s birthplace as recently as 2019 and called Islam ‘a plague.'”

“In reality, Molla started his own property on fire and spray painted the graffiti on his own garage.”

“Governor Ron DeSantis has made voting easier in certain Florida counties battered by Hurricane Ian – but only Republican-leaning ones.”

“His plan wiped away half of the state’s Black-dominated congressional districts, dramatically curtailing Black voting power in America’s largest swing state.”

Some of the parents said that it was demonic while others said it was witchcraft.”

 

September 30, 2022

Maps of states that have passed laws that would ban abortion if the Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade almost mirror those that have passed anti-trans bans.”

“American conservatism is made up of a bunch of apparently disparate core ideas that are actually fairly closely connected.”

“From the outside, the issues that motivate the MAGA wing of the GOP seem like an incoherent mess. But white replacement is an underground root system that connects them all.”

“CNN’s KFile previously reported that Gibbs’ history of conspiratorial and inflammatory tweets included baselessly accusing Democrats of taking part in satanic rituals and defending a notorious antisemitic troll banned by Twitter.”

“While Republican Joe Kent touted his support for prominent far-right figures like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Gosar and supported MAGA policies, he was speaking with Greyson Arnold, a Nazi sympathizer.”

“As the Holman Bible puts it, Jesus is ‘the most pro-cop person in the universe.'”

“The groups targeted by Paxton’s legal regime really are operating in a climate of fear and intimidation that’s been imposed on them by the state, but you don’t see them cavalierly talking about using the Second Amendment against a process server.”

“But there’s one more problem that I’m sure most white people haven’t thought about yet: arming American teachers will directly result in students of color being shot to death at school.”

“Texas-based nonprofit organization True the Vote has engaged in a series of questionable transactions that sent more than $1 million combined to its founder, a longtime board member romantically linked to the founder, and the group’s general counsel.”

“Well-adjusted white man Daily Wire Ben Shapiro employee Matt Walsh … has science thoughts about why Ariel in The Little Mermaid has to be white, because mermaids are white, in fact they are translucent, because everything in the ocean is see-through.”

“See for weirdos like Bryan, femineity is expressly linked to sexuality, so if a man wants to appear feminine then he is absolutely being a pervert because to be a woman is, ipso facto to be sexual.”

“Everyone’s hoping that the next set of orders that pops up is not for Texas.”

“Texas health officials have missed a key window to complete the state’s first major updated count of pregnancy related deaths in nearly a decade, saying the findings will now be released next summer, most likely after the Legislature’s biennial session.”

“One unavoidable conclusion is that Mississippi’s infant health crisis is, ultimately, a maternal-health crisis.”

Our heart is super compassionate about that.”

“Last I checked, watering roses ain’t no crime.”

“By 2019, the medics were responding to 24,000 calls a year, and they said only about 150 required police backup.”

“It was 3:30 in the afternoon, but the weather was cold. I didn’t have a sweater; I didn’t have a coat. They took us to a school, where they gave us food, and then they took us to a church in the center of town — the center of the island, I imagine..”

“On Thursday morning, the migrants woke to a buffet breakfast of sandwiches and coffee served outside the church as politicians and other officials planned their next steps.”

“Americans are getting significantly more return on investment from offshore wind energy lease sales than they are from oil and gas lease sales.”

September 26, 2022

“The roots of this crisis run much deeper, and are inextricably tied to white disinvestment from a majority-Black city.”

“We punish convicts who maintain their innocence with longer sentences than they would get were they to have confessed to a crime they didn’t commit.”

“Flagler County School Board incumbent Jill Woolbright … says God placed her on the school board, that she is involved in ‘satanic warfare,’ and that, in a reference to others on the school board and at the district office, she has ‘felt the evil spirits around me.'”

“The page, which has 6,300 followers, regularly posts anti-abortion comments, misinformation about Covid vaccines and memes insulting the LGBTQ community.”

“I laugh when I hear these debates [in the U.S., today] about banning books, because this is exactly what they did in Albania in the 1970s.”

Feminists need rape.”

Catholics who support reproductive rights are a majority, though many have not yet been public about it.”

“After decrying what he had helped to do in passing the first heartbeat law, and after almost weeping at the people who will be harmed or killed by what he had done, when faced with voting against an even worse law with no exceptions, out of ‘respect for the process,’ Collins valiantly abstained.”

“At a House Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday concerning abortion access, an expert witness called by Republicans made a head-scratcher of a claim: Washington, D.C., is literally powered by burning fetuses.”

“The anti-abortion group claims that because the facility will prescribe abortion medication, it will pollute area waterways with the remains of aborted fetuses flushed down toilets.”

“Mostly, I was tip-toeing around something that eclipses every other issue for many of my extended family members. And I risk alienating them by writing this.”

“Coloradans have elected just one Republican governor in the last 50 years. A current GOP candidate for governor has an idea that could change that: stop counting each vote equally.”

This purported distinction is as dumb as it is morally bankrupt, because you do not need to be a fancy lawyer to understand that this is simply not how money works.”

“Heathens”

“The video depicts two Crawford County deputies and a Mulberry Police officer beating a man on the ground and apparently slamming his head into the cement.”

“Minneapolis did not defund the police. It’s the opposite. The police are defunding Minneapolis.”

Without restitution, there can be no justice.”

“On the one hand, few people deserve to be defrauded more than people willing to give money to help Trump build a wall, on the other hand lock him up anyway.”

“By 2019, private equity firms also controlled 150,000 mobile-home sites, often jacking up utility and other site fees.”

A third [Republican] resident of The Villages has admitted to voting twice during the 2020 election, court records show.”

“Americans have a right and a duty to scrutinize religious institutions that endanger vulnerable people and make it harder to be religiously, sexually, or otherwise Otherwise in this country. ”

We’re open to all hypotheses, we’re open to any conclusions that we may encounter.”

 

August 23, 2022

Something has happened to these people. I think it’s Fox News.”

Viewer discretion is advised.”

“The government shouldn’t be in a position where it’s deciding what theological beliefs to favor or not, but I do not imagine the current Supreme Court would agree with me on that one.”

And that is how I know you lied to me about not having any messages about Sandy Hook.”

“Project Veritas was engaged in an initiative codenamed ‘Diamond Dog’ to ‘erode confidence in the security of mail-in voting.”

“An extreme decision here could fundamentally alter the balance of power in setting election rules in the states and provide a path for great threats to elections.”

“No, ma’am. I’m actually headed home right now because I have to await my dead baby’s delivery.”

“No one knows exactly how many embryos are in the hundreds of fertility clinics across the nation — estimates range from 400,000 to a million.”

Villavicencio’s experience is common, and will remain so.”

“This is how journalists should question all politicians and public servants daily including on specific forms of contraceptives and ‘exceptions’ to the abortion bans.”

The domestic supply of infants.”

“So, you are setting up a prescription for phenomenal effects in terms of maternal mortality, infant mortality, infant low birthweight, all of the risks that follow.”

“Hmmmm, needs more Placenta Facts.”

“I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday.”

“They’re going to ban sodomy, they’re going to ban gay marriage, they’re going to throw gays off roofs. Women lose, God wins.”

“After a nasty instance of transphobic bullying at the Port Townsend YMCA made national headlines across conservative media, the quiet town refused to cede an inch to transphobic outrage culture.”

“The Herald-Tribune opinion page will not provide a forum for support of the Proud Boys [again], an extremist group that promotes white nationalist views and which has been labeled a terrorist group by two countries and has top members under indictment on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.”

Underage workers, in some cases as young as 12, have recently worked at a metal stamping plant operated by SMART Alabama LLC.”

“Two members of the Brookville (Indiana) Police Department are suspended following allegations that they arrested a man thought to be anti-police whom they did not want running for town board.”

Nobody wants to work anymore.”

People who hurt others should face social repercussions.”

I believe in everything that’s been put out from Q.”

“And don’t tell my wife I used that joke, she hates that joke.”

July 18, 2022

Well, the Establishment Clause had a good run.”

“As of today, you have the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney… but the police have no obligation to respect those rights and you have no avenue to enforce them.”

“To the legislature and the attorney general, crack open your history books — the Supreme Court has a new standard if it wasn’t done back then we can’t do it now.”

“Hours after the Supreme Court action, the Buckeye state had outlawed any abortion after six weeks. Now this doctor had a 10-year-old patient in the office who was six weeks and three days pregnant.”

Because the law in Arizona is worse.”

“Today we saw a patient in Dayton who has cancer. Her doctors told her she would have to terminate before she received chemotherapy treatment. She will have to travel to Indiana.”

“Munoz said he faced an awful predicament with a recent patient who had started to miscarry and developed a dangerous womb infection. The fetus still had signs of a heartbeat, so an immediate abortion — the usual standard of care — would have been illegal under Texas law.”

This all goes back to the fact that we don’t trust women.”

“Residents in the town of Millinocket, Maine, say they are outraged and disappointed after a local insurance agency displayed a racist sign remarking on the Juneteenth holiday.”

“But by the time that training was ordered, the officer had been involved in the killing of another African-American man.”

“We are all ok but we’re angry, very very angry.”

“And, you know, I don’t want to be afraid for the rest of my life.”

If the Republican Study Committee’s plan were implemented, Social Security and Medicare would be partially privatized, food stamps would be slashed, Head Start would be phased out, Medicaid funding would be decimated, the Affordable Care Act would be weakened, labor unions would be undermined, the EPA would be gutted, abortion would be banned, birthright citizenship would be eliminated, Donald Trump’s border wall would be funded, and even the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would see its doors permanently closed.”

“Arizona Department of Corrections Director David Shinn said Arizona communities would ‘collapse’ without cheap prison labor.”

“Such an investigation should also examine the intolerable activity of retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre and how his actions were aided by Governor Bryant.”

“And even the contender who has garnered mainstream support had an ‘admittedly lame’ hobby acting in low-budget horror pictures, one of which included a zombie biting off a man’s genitals.”

The furry days are over when I’m governor.”

June 24, 2022

Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy.”

“Dozens of Republican mail ballots for the May 17 primary were being diverted to a P.O. Box registered to the Republican Registration Coalition.”

Federal court records describe Kelley as being an active participant in the riot, climbing onto portions of the Capitol, encouraging yelling, gesturing to participants and removing a covering from a temporary structure outside the Capitol.”

“Both evangelical pastors favored municipalities governed by their allies and demanded bribes, including a kilo of gold.”

“Just one of the most famous contemporary evangelical radio preachers and authors promoting the Curse of Ham like it was 1850.”

Black students were twice as likely to be ticketed as their white peers.”

Very often, you know, Black people, frankly.”

“It’s all a head nod in the direction of the unspeakable but clearly animating belief of MAGA nation: People of color are not legitimate American citizens. ”

Homicide is a leading cause of death during pregnancy and the postpartum period in the United States.”

“With Oklahoma being an open-carry state, it’s not against the law to carry a firearm, but it is against the law to commit a crime with a firearm. Sometimes that can be very muddy waters to deal with or work your way through.”

“A suburban Seattle city will pay more than $1.5 million to settle a dispute with a former assistant police chief who was disciplined for posting a Nazi rank insignia on his office door and joking about the Holocaust.”

“At least one of the mothers of Walker’s unacknowledged children had to take legal action to receive child support payments.”

“Let me tell you about Sir Matthew Hale & his views toward women.”

“Seventy-four-year-old Henry Lee Porter Sr., the former bishop of a Sarasota evangelical church, is on trial, accused of sexually abusing children from as far back as 1989.”

“The repeated errors and omissions in the AG Opinion are so consistent and so extensive that it is difficult to believe that the opinion represents a good-faith effort to draw legal conclusions based on the best scientific evidence.”

They are coming for your birth control.

“Benjamin Franklin wasn’t even the first issuer of a math textbook on either side of the Atlantic to include among its materials a recipe for abortion, though his book certainly had the most reliable and explicit one.”

“According to the most recent data published by the FBI, the rates at which police forces are solving crimes have plunged to historic lows.”

Increase in rents was responsible for almost 40 percent of the core CPI number in May.”

“A lawyer representing some of the families being kicked out of the trailer park at the Newport News/Williamsburg Airport said the $500 to $2,000 per tenant offered to those who leave early is ‘clearly not sufficient’ and insisted the airport must pay his clients ‘just compensation’ to give up their homes.”

“Residents at the Oak Hill Mobile Home Park [in Belton, Mo.] are scrambling to find new homes after receiving notice they need to move within 30 to 60 days.”

“And it’s like they don’t care. They just snatch it away from us.”

“Michael Peirce thinks it shouldn’t take a miracle for residents to be able to buy their own parks.”

“I was told good memories I had were put there by Satanists to cover up the other bad memories in my past.”

“For his part, Sheriff Mike Smith is continuing to pretend that this is a very legitimate investigation and he is just really concerned for all of the children who were abused in these evil Satanic rituals that definitely happened.”

 

May 5, 2022

“And, over the last decade, this process — finding some idiot who said something ridiculous and aggregating whatever they said into a form that fits a trending algorithm — is now, hilariously, how all of American culture works.”

“Pennsylvania Republicans will nominate a 2020 election conspiracist for governor in the May 17 primary. How can I be sure of that? Because they’re all election conspiracists.”

Organized by QAnon conspiracy theorists Alan and Francine Fosdick, the two-day conference featured appearances by several Republican candidates for office, including Pennsylvania GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is currently running for governor, Teddy Daniels, who is running for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania; Rick Bowers, who is running for state Senate in Maryland; and Dan Cox, who is running for governor in Maryland.”

“Teddy Daniels, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania, was ordered to temporarily leave his home and stay away from his wife and child after his wife acquired a court order against him this week.”

“More than a month later, Perry texted Meadows a YouTube link detailing another conspiracy theory: that votes were changed by Italian satellites.”

“With this vigilante scheme, Florida has copied from Texas’ playbook, empowering private citizens to enforce oppressive laws through direct legal action.”

“What they’re doing is really telling the students straight up, ‘We discriminate. We don’t accept you. You’re not welcome here.’”

“A North Carolina schools superintendent has apologized for a mock ‘slave auction’ in which white middle-schoolers pretended to sell their Black classmates.”

If a book is not found on the list, it will not be located within a library operated by a public school or public charter school.”

The flaws in the Insular Cases are as fundamental as they are shameful.”

The map is the election, and the election is an afterthought.”

Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”

Can’t you just shoot them?

“This isn’t Republican Sen. Ron Johnson’s first ride on the ‘COVID did AIDS ‘ carousel, either.”

“(Male) libido enhancers are tax-exempt, but medically necessary products for women are not.”

We’re essentially working in a post-Roe era here.”

It’s very dangerous stuff. You can get killed with those things … I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit. And some fruit is a lot worse than — tomatoes are bad by the way. But it’s very dangerous… they were going to hit — they were going to hit very hard.”

“This is the inevitable result of American individualism: a louder, meaner, fuck-you Americanism that isn’t just about bootstrapping yourself, but about burning your neighbors’ boots.”

“If that is true, why are there still apes?

“It’s likely that the best move for someone who messed up as badly as I did is simply to go away and be quiet.”

I’d be curious to know …

“Having a nationally televised ‘debate’ about whether in fact the Democratic party is part of a child sex slave trafficking ring controlled by a (((globalist))) elite is …  how to put this? Not a great idea, maybe?”

 


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