Falsehoods Unchallenged Only Fester and Grow
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Jim Banks @RepJimBanks wrote: Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.
Yet another entry in the "saying the quiet part out loud" sweepstakes.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:46 am I saw a screen cap of this and thought it was a joke.
Jim Banks @RepJimBanks wrote: Student loan forgiveness undermines one of our military’s greatest recruitment tools at a time of dangerously low enlistments.
PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes wrote: Newt Gingrich made his wife who is limping and has a leg injury and a boot on her leg get his coffee this morning and deliver it to his driver side window.
If there's a better thread for this, please move it to where it belongs. Thanks!...in October 2020, the Department of Homeland Security—Trump’s Department of Homeland Security—concluded that white supremacist violence was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland.” A study by the nonpartisan Center for Strategic and International Studies found that white supremacists and like-minded extremists conducted 67 percent of terrorist plots and attacks in the United States in 2020, compared to 20 percent by anarchist, antifascist, and like-minded extremists.
Former Idaho lawmaker Aaron von Ehlinger gets 20-year sentence
Former Idaho lawmaker Aaron von Ehlinger has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a legislative intern.
He'll have to serve a minimum of eight years before he's eligible for parole. Once released, he's been ordered to register as a sex offender.
After von Ehlinger gave a statement in the courtroom Wednesday, Judge Reardon said, "I have to come to the conclusion that your denial, your demonstrated lack of empathy for the victim, your propensity to blame the victim. When I listened to you today, I wrote down two words - victim and hero. That you see yourself as a victim and you see yourself as a hero, and frankly, I don’t see you as either one of those things."
Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Thu Sep 01, 2022 11:11 am
After von Ehlinger gave a statement in the courtroom Wednesday, Judge Reardon said, "I have to come to the conclusion that your denial, your demonstrated lack of empathy for the victim, your propensity to blame the victim. When I listened to you today, I wrote down two words - victim and hero. That you see yourself as a victim and you see yourself as a hero, and frankly, I don’t see you as either one of those things."
State Rep. James Hieb Misted Downtown Portland With Pepper Spray Alongside the Proud Boys
He was then arrested for drunken, disorderly conduct at the Clackamas County Fair after becoming a legislator.
By Lucas Manfield
August 31, 2022 at 5:30 am PDT
For the past two weeks, a state lawmaker has faced intense scrutiny following his arrest for disorderly conduct at the Clackamas County Fair.
On the night of Aug. 17, state Rep. James Hieb (R-Canby) was intoxicated and belligerent when Clackamas County sheriff’s deputies attempted to eject him from the fairgrounds. (A fair employee had asked him to stop smoking a cigarette.) After a sheriff’s deputy told Hieb he was going to perform a pat-down, the legislator revealed he was carrying a concealed handgun.
WW has learned of a previous encounter Hieb had with the criminal justice system in which he was less than forthright about the weapons he carried and how he used them.
Video shows Hieb at a 2020 clash between right-wing militants and their left-wing adversaries, covering his retreat from downtown Portland with a mist of pepper spray.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2022/08/31/s ... roud-boys/
Barely-a-candidate Republican audaciously invokes MLK's legacy after calling Black people 'chimps'
A Colorado Republican running to represent the 3rd District in the state House of Representatives apparently thinks racism is her best ticket to office.
When GOP candidate Marla Fernandez’s opponent, Democrat Rep. Meg Froelich, tweeted about securing an essential endorsement, Froelich included a photo of herself alongside three other Black and Hispanic candidates. Fernandez, who Fox 31 identified as a "longshot Republican candidate," called the women “chimps.”
When given the opportunity to correct her disgusting remark, she instead told Fox 31 that she meant to write "chump."
"But I said, you know what, let’s go with this and see what happens, since I’m Hispanic,” Fernandez said, laughing. “So, I got the media coverage.”
While even the Colorado GOP Chairwoman Kristi Burton Brown criticized the tweet as “uncalled for and highly inappropriate," Fernandez doubled down on her stance, Fox 31 reported.
“I didn’t do anything wrong. It was meant for Meg, and I didn’t even care about the people that were on there,” Fernandez said. “I mean, I was just trying to address the fact that she got sponsored by the NEA, who is number one next to nobody and funds the Democrats.”
“I’m not going to apologize, because I didn’t do anything wrong, and I’m not racist. It’s not true.”
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Sep 09, 2022 2:02 pm But don't call them deplorable,or semi-fascist, it hurts their feelings.
Normal, reassuring stuff from an official account for an armed federal agency—serially retweeting the dark fulminations of the professionally racist close advisor to the former president who tried to overthrow the republic.
I'm on it. The likes are also a dead giveaway that whoever runs the account didn't realize they're logged into the work account and not their personal account. Really nasty likes too, including anti-gay playground names about Buttigieg.