It’s not “PAID FOR BY THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE” if fans have to shell out $17 to buy it. For a party that act like they have the corner on economic issues they sure look kind of fucking stupid on this one. Not as stupid as the people who would spend that much on a sign they could either make themselves by stealing a Dem candidate’s sign and painting over it if they have just a little bit of artistic talent, or simply getting it custom made for like $10 max at a local print shop.
The pastor at New Beginnings Ministries in Warsaw, Ohio has been indicted on seven charges for his role in the January 6th Republican-led domestic terrorist attack on Congress, demonstrating the FBI continues to pursue charges against all participants in the attack.
According to WTVG ABC-13 in Toledo, the FBI received the original tip about William Dunfee in February 2021, when people reported Facebook posts by Dunfee and others indicating Dunfee was urging people to enter the Capitol.
“Pastor Bill and several others of our group made into the interior doors of the Capital. They pushed back and forth with the police. They talked to the officers and told them why they were there,” a post in a Facebook group said. “Not to harm or destroy. They wanted to talk to the Congress. When an officer came back and said that wasn’t possible, they tried to force the doors open.”
Because the Daily Beast agreed to hide certain aspects of her identity, the woman who alleged Republican Georgia Senate candidate Hershel Walker of Texas paid for her to have an abortion has been slandered by conservative commentators as a “skank” and someone who would willing have abortions if paid. Walker himself claimed he didn’t know who she was.
But there’s a problem with that. The Daily Beast reports that the woman making the claim–and backing it up with a canceled check from Walker and a receipt from an abortion clinic, among other things–is the mother of one of Walker’s acknowledged four children.
That one detail kinda leaves the Walker campaign in a lurch: do they continue to slander the mother of the candidate’s child, who raised that child on her own with an absentee father (the candidate)? Or do they acknowledge the candidate’s error and take have the candidate sincerely take responsibility for his acti—-…. yeah, we know that ain’t gonna happen.
“Okay. If the White House says so we have no choice but to believe it, but you still have to wonder: not everyone does believe that. Why?” Fox host and guy who still puts pennies in his loafers Tucker Carlson speculates. “Where might some Americans have gotten the notion that the Biden Administration might have been involved directly or through a proxy in the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines? Why would they think that? They certainly didn’t watch it on Russia Today. RT has been pulled off the air. They didn’t hear it from Putin or any of his ministers.”
Oh oh… we know. It’s right here:
Denying any involvement of police in the matter, Iranian officials have arrested eight men who worked in a building into which a woman who had just burned her headscarf at a protest walked before disappearing and having her body discovered next door, CNN reports.
Nika Shahkarami, a 16-year-old girl, posted a photo of herself burning her headscarf on September 20th at the protest spurred by the death of a 22-year-old woman in the custody of the nation’s Morality Police, who detained her for exposing to much of her hair.
After leaving the demonstration, Shahkarami entered an unspecified building according to security camera footage. It was the last time she was seen alive. Her body was found ten days later behind a house next to the building she was seen entering.
A list of documents found in two boxes recovered from Donald Trump’s Florida crash pad and soup kitchen was accidentally temporarily released to the public thanks to an administrative error by the court, the Washington Post reports.
Although there were no clearly classified information in the lots–they contained sets of uninteresting documents related to pardon considerations, a lawsuit Trump filed, and draft legislation–there were a couple things that sprung out.
Trump took 35 pages of Presidential call logs, titled “The President’s Calls,” that include the names and phone numbers of people, as well as some notes that appear to be messages. No dates or specifics are listed; one note read, “Message from Rudy.”
The MAGA-heavy Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday completely stuck it to those DACA kids, ruling that the Obama-era program that allows them work permits and protects them from deportation is unlawful, the Wall Street Journal reports. It was probably a smart move, because if they ever become citizens they’ll probably vote for Democrats for the rest of their lives.
The disgraced former president said a lot of stupid shit in his speech to some right wing Latino group in Miami on Wednesday. It was a tough call between this and his claim that the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago was $5 billion in free publicity for the resort or that he almost didn’t want to dispute former aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony that he assaulted Secret Service agents on January 6th because it makes him “sound tough,” but we feel comfortable calling this one on what fanboy pollster John McLaughlin told him about his prospects in 2020 before the pandemic hit the most risible.
Ukrainian officials on Wednesday said their forces have continued to make gains in territories just earlier in the day that were officially annexed by Russia, the Kyiv Independent reports. “The de-occupation of Luhansk Oblast has begun,” wrote Luhansk Regional Military–Civil Administration Governor Serhiy Haidai on Telegram Wednesday, reporting that a further six villages in the Kremlin-claimed region had been recaptured. Keep in mind this isn’t territory lost by Kyiv earlier this year, but occupied by Russia since 2014, which should show how serious the Ukrainian momentum is.
It’s not clear who the President is speaking with here in Fort Myers, Florida following his joint appearance with tyrannical governor Ron DeSantis on relief efforts following Hurricane Ian, but the man is certainly grateful for the help from the federal government. It’s also not clear if Joe definitely said “No one fucks with a Biden,” he may have said something else. Our medium-crazy theory is this: That man is named David Biden, age 70, lives about 10 miles east of Fort Myers, according to public voter records (which also says he’s a registered Republican, funny enough). A Facebook profile of a David Biden resembling the man in the video is mostly locked but says his hometown is Tampa. We think that’s why Joe said “No one fucks with a Biden” – because that man is also a Biden.
UPDATE 10/5/2022 5:31 PM: Well shit. Turns out the man is Fort Myers Beach Mayor Ray Murphy.
Remember when the FBI said they didn’t send a tactical team to arrest Pastor Houck in front of his kids and hold his family at gunpoint?
Well, Chris Wray needs to explain why the agent at Houck’s door is wearing an HRT (FBI’s Tier 1 counter terror unit) cap. pic.twitter.com/9P5PELlPY4
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 5, 2022
Meet John Cardillo. Even though he has the vaunted “blue check” next to his name, you’ve likely never heard of the former Newsmax host and one-time NYPD officer. There’s good reason for that, as you can imagine. Cardillo claims that this security camera still photo–allegedly from Mark Houck’s Bucks County home–proves beyond a doubt that the FBI sent in its highly-trained Hostage Rescue Team to arrest the anti-choice activist charged with shoving a 72-year-old health clinic volunteer escort to the ground twice as the man helped clinic patients make their way through a phalanx of rabid fundamentalists.
Republicans aren’t very smart. They don’t exercise critical thinking skills. And because of that, they wedge themselves into exceptionally ridiculous and embarrassing predicaments. Take, for example, the case of Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Heidi Ganahl and her crusade against “furry” kids.
As some of you may be aware, some people get their kicks from wearing costumes of cartoon characters, mascots or animals. In certain situations (usually sexual), they’ll claim they *are* that creature. Hey, it’s their kink and good on them, so long as they’re not harming anyone.
Now, though, Republicans have got it into their one functioning brain cell that hordes of children are identifying as cats in schools–going so far as to require schools to put litter boxes in bathrooms– a situation Ganahl declares she will not tolerate even though schools throughout Colorado have explicitly stated they do not have any students making such demands, the Denver Post reports.
“As a candidate for governor, but more than anything as a parent, my concern is that distractions like children dressing up in costumes at school detract from the reality that 60% of our kids are not performing at grade level,” Ganahl, who sits on the board of regents for the University of Colorado, said. “It’s tragic that we are failing our children. We need to make them our priority.”.
Former Russian TV news journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, facing charges of sedition over her on-air protest of the murderous invasion of Ukraine in March, skipped out of house arrest ahead of a Wednesday court hearing and announced as much on Telegram, Axios reports.
“I consider myself completely innocent, and since our state refuses to comply with its own laws, starting from September 30, 2022, I refuse to comply with the measure of restraint established for me in the form of house arrest and release myself from it,” Ovsyannikova wrote, and in a video said “Put a tag like this on Putin,” showing an electronic monitoring bracelet on her ankle. “It is he who must be isolated from society not me, and he should be tried for the genocide of the people of Ukraine and for the fact that he destroys the male population of Russia en masse,” she said.
It’s not clear how easy it is for a high-profile fugitive like Ovsyannikova to escape Russia. Our guess is it’s pretty fucking hard given Putin’s deeply paranoid police state. Then again with a mass exodus of tens of thousands of military-age men avoiding conscription she might be able to slip out over the border and into a neighboring country unnoticed. We’re rooting for her either way.
In another blow to the Orange God Emperor’s attempt to slow down the criminal investigation into his theft of top secret documents from the White House the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Justice Department’s their motion for an expedited appeal of the Trump special master order from shitty federal Judge Aileen Cannon. Donald had opposed it for some made-up reason.
Local, state and federal law enforcement officials continue to monitor social media and other outlets as references to “civil war” among rightwingers continue to escalate in the weeks prior to the midterm elections, leading some to worry about potential violence if followers of Donald Trump do not prevail where his followers expect them to, the New York Times reports.
In the days after the FBI searched Trump’s Florida boarding house and geriatric hive Mar-a-Lago, references to “civil war” jumped 3,000%, peaking again after President Joe Biden’s address at Independence Hall in which the President noted the inherent threat the Trump cult poses to the United States and the Constitution.
Undeterred by facts and reality, Trump followers have used platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, Parler, Gab and Truth Social to push for a violent overthrow of the US government in the wake of disclosures that Trump faces additional criminal liability for stealing government documents. While rational people see this as enforcement of existing laws against a careless and reckless former government official, MAGA cultists see it as persecution against their beloved demigod who, they claim, is only being investigated because he’s so powerful, pure and patriotic.
“The question is what does ‘civil war’ look like and what does it mean,” said Elizabeth Neumann, the former assistant secretary for counterterrorism at the Homeland Security Department under Mr. Trump who now tracks extremist chatter online. “I did not anticipate, nor did anyone else as far as I know, how rapidly the violence would escalate.”
Minnesota Republican Congressional candidate Tyler Kistner has claimed at various times he’s “put his enemy six feet under” and has “been on the wrong end of a loaded weapon” during his time in the US Marine Corps, but like fellow GOP scumbag JR Majewski it appears to be an embellishment at best, the Minnesota Reformer reports as Kister’s campaign has pulled ads implying he served in combat at the request of VoteVets. Kistner is aiming to take down incumbent Dem Congresswoman Angie Craig after losing to her in 2020. This time Kister has some help in the form of a Republican-backed fake legal weed party candidate – one who sank Craig’s first bid for the seat in 2016.
Pennsylvania 12th Congressional district Republican candidate Mike Doyle is capitalizing on name recognition in his bid to replace retiring 14-term Democratic Congressman Mike Doyle, not listing his party on campaign signs or on his website as he faces an uphill battle for the blue Pittsburgh-area district against Democrat newcomer Summer Lee, TribLive.com reports.
Republican Mike Doyle is also probably banking on near-face recognition too as, like Democrat Mike Doyle, he’s a jowly 60-to-70 something Irish American with short silvery white hair. The Republican Mike Doyle is a little pinker than the Democrat one though. The Democrat one looks like he could be a mutt with some Italian and/or Ukrainian parentage. The Cook Political Report lists Pennsylvania 12 as “Lean Democrat” rather than “Likely Democrat” in part due to the name confusion.
A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the fuckups on the Durham Investigation team cannot mention the legendary Trump “pee tape” in the upcoming trial of Steele Dossier informant Igor Danchenko, NBC News reports. Dachenko stands accused of lying to the FBI (it’s what fanboys would call a “process crime” back when Robert Mueller was rounding up Trump minions) during an interview about the Steele Dossier, for which Dachenko is consider to have been the main source of.
The trial is all but certain to be the final throes of the failed Durham Investigation, which for years was hyped as an absolute cataclysm for the Deep State. Just earlier this year stained MAGA underoos were stretched to the breaking point after some bullshit Durham wrote in a court filing got twisted into “HILLARY AND OBAMA WERE DEFINITELY SPYING ON TRUMP EVEN WHILE HE WAS IN THE WHITE HOUSE,” only for Dem lawyer Mike Sussman to be acquitted of lying to the FBI in May. The case against Dachenko is reportedly similarly weak, but let’s see how it goes.
Faced with still soft numbers for Republicans in midterm races and the national generic ballot, the MAGA party’s allies in Russia and Saudi Arabia moved Wednesday to increase gas prices by with just over a month to go before election day, Bloomberg reports. The production cut of 2 million barrels a day seems drastic, but Bloomberg crunched the numbers and estimates that the net cut will be actually less than half that – 880,000 barrels per day – given that several countries in the cartel were already pumping well below their quotas. Then there’s that daily global oil consumption is estimated at 88 million barrels a day in 2022, so we’re looking at a grand total 1% supply cut.
Of course, it might not be a “woman” singular that Herschel paid to have an abortion.
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