Nicker on 17/9/2022 at 05:07
Just a Post Script to the De Santis stunt. Florida doesn't have any hoards of illegal migrants, to overwhelm it's small border towns, so Florida sent an agent to Texas to recruit the victims of this stunt.
And this was all done with Tax Payer's money.
That shit in Mississippi is equally repugnant.
Starker on 17/9/2022 at 08:26
To be fair, it is the most Republican thing I've ever heard of. Austerity politics at its finest.
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The state's Department of Human Resources, the agency responsible for distributing federal funds to poor families, gave millions of dollars of these funds instead to wealthy, politically-connected Mississippians for their pet sports projects and athletes, and for meals at expensive steak houses.
heywood on 17/9/2022 at 11:30
Not that this excuses what was done, but I do understand why Texas residents are a bit frustrated by ICE releasing detainees in their state. When we take in refugees, the federal government works with the states to spread them around. But we're not doing anything to distribute the burden of absorbing illegal migrants that are being caught and released in border states.
The other thing I want to say is that we're focusing on the wrong border. We should be helping Mexico build up their southern border. It's shorter and there's minimal economic activity across it.
Cipheron on 17/9/2022 at 12:24
Need some lightening up.
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/lauren-boebert-wonton-killings-speech-b2167545.html)
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Lauren Boebert has been mocked for warning of “wonton killings” during a reading of a Bible passage.
The GOP Representative was reading a passage from Romans that in The Message edition of the Bible refers to “wanton killing.”
But video of the event shows the lawmaker from Colorado getting the phrase mixed up with the Chinese dumpling.
“I don't know what a wonton killing is,” she said in the footage posted on Twitter by Patriot Takes. “I'm gonna have to look that one up, but it sounds interesting.”
Of course people then pointed out that the "Gazspacho police" would come for you for your wonton killing, to find out where you dumpling the body.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/09/marjorie-taylor-greene-gazpacho-police)
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The extremist Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene triggered a wave of viral jokes on Wednesday after ranting about the “gazpacho police” patrolling the Capitol building in Washington DC.
Greene was apparently mixing up the famously cold Spanish soup gazpacho with the Gestapo - the brutal Nazi-era secret police in Germany.
Nicker on 17/9/2022 at 19:37
The GOP has everything from Soup to Nutzis.
Cipheron on 18/9/2022 at 02:49
MTG with her crusade against renewable energy, new stuff
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https://hillreporter.com/watch-marjorie-taylor-greene-posits-that-electric-airplanes-will-run-on-slave-labor)
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has some odd ideas about electricity. Perhaps someone should reach out to her and explain the existence of batteries, or help her understand that electricity is available without a cord and wall outlet.
Not so long ago, she was fearmongering about renewable energy, hypothesizing that in a world where much of the electricity was generated by solar, wind, and other renewable resources, she wouldn't be able to have a washing machine, dryer, and refrigerator, or keep the lights on after the sun went down.
Now, she's worried about planes powered by electricity. Having learned that Air Canada (incidentally, a company, not owned by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau) is ordering 30 electric airplanes, she's come up with a wild scenario involving slave ships and exercise bikes.
"Air Canada, get this, has ordered 30 electric airplanes...I mean, it shouldn't surprise you, look
who's the president of -- I mean, Justin Trudeau, right? We were talking, how is there an electric airplane and what does that look like?...Remember back a long time ago when you've seen movies where people in those slave ships and, they're down there and they're rowing, and they're being whipped to row? We're saying, how are they gonna keep powering these electric airplanes, what are they gonna have, it's like a spin class in a tube? Where they've got everybody riding spin cycles, and those mean nasty airline stewardesses that forced you to wear masks all the time on the plane...are they gonna be forcing you to like keep spinning to keep the airplane in the air? It's absurd."
There's certainly a lot absurd in her ideas, including the fact that Justin Trudeau is not the president of Air Canada, and that she could have answered these questions with minimal effort, instead of regurgitating them to a Youth Summit.
As Reuters reports, the electricity the planes will use is, in fact, provided by batteries, not exercise bikes, hamster wheels, or magical thinking. The company that is manufacturing them, Heart, is producing electric-hybrid aircraft, which are expected to generate zero emissions -- and
it's not only Canada that's buying them. United Airlines (based in the U.S.) signed a similar deal last year.Stupid is literally her brand however. If the planes are at the stage of actually having orders from airlines, then clearly they are actually planes that can get off the ground.
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https://electrek.co/2022/09/16/air-canada-invests-heart-aerospace-orders-updated-versions-electric-airplane/)
Nicker on 19/9/2022 at 18:16
We keep saying, 'it couldn't get worse,' and then it gets worse.
T***p's new lawyer got a three million dollar retainer, illegally paid by T***p's Save America PAC. But wait, there's more. Christopher Kise is a registered foreign agent, previously in the employ of... Nicholas Maduro, Dictator of Venezuela. This lackey will be allowed to paw through the USA's most critical secrets and have the opportunity to copy and redistribute them. Nice gig, getting paid to spy, and not even having to wear a trench-coat or break into secure offices.
[video=youtube;BqmeaZuhZTA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqmeaZuhZTA[/video]
Seems like the Kraken Lady was right, in a twisted manner.
I don't know if Kise's picture was photo-shopped to look extra pathological or if his reptilian infiltration training fell on sterile ground.
heywood on 19/9/2022 at 20:05
That's the best he can get right now. He's a former state solicitor general and has argued cases at SCOTUS before.
Probably a shyster, but probably not crazy, which is an improvement for the Donald.
Starker on 19/9/2022 at 23:16
To be fair, at this point, any lawyer who's not Rudy Giuliani and still willing to work for exposure is a get.