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bill_g wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 11:18 am Aw. She's a hero and deserves a flag and a certificate ... for her treachery. Louie, Louie, Louie.

Kendra wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:45 pm

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.

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:07 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:45 pm

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.

Looks like it’s been removed from CBP’s twitter

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 10:07 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Sat Sep 10, 2022 5:45 pm

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.

Looks like it’s been removed from CBP’s twitter

Totally unacceptable and disappointing that any CBP Twitter account was used to R/T offensive, unauthorized content. We’ve removed the content and will deactivate the account. The Office of Professional Responsibility will investigate. This must not happen again.

The radical legal theory that could upend the 2024 election

In a 2018 address to the Federalist Society, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas "joked" that Leonard Leo, a right-wing operative, was the "number three most powerful person in the world."

Leo has stepped down from his day-to-day responsibilities at the Federalist Society to pursue an even more audacious agenda. According to reports by ProPublica and the New York Times, Leo recently raised $1.6 billion for a new political advocacy group, Marble Freedom Trust. That money came from a single donor, "ultra secret Republican businessman" Barre Seid.

These funds will be available for Leo to pursue his latest initiative: an effort to give state legislatures unfettered authority over federal elections. It is a fringe legal argument advanced by Donald Trump's lawyers in their effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. If adopted by the federal courts, it could throw 2024 and future elections into chaos. But it is being taken very seriously by Leo and several of his allies on the Supreme Court.

Taking an unserious theory very seriously
In a series of opinions authored by Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has already gutted many federal voting rights protections. In 2019, for example, Roberts ruled that federal courts cannot do anything about partisan gerrymandering. The ruling means that if the party in control of a state legislature manipulates political maps to enhance its power, federal courts can do nothing.

Eric Hananoki @ehananoki wrote: The AP just reported that military documents show Ohio House nominee J.R. "Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan" (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm ... 1c46711999).

Here he is in a tweet claiming he'd "gladly suit up and go back to Afghanistan tonight."

The AP reported on these remarks in its article: Here's video of J.R. Majewski claiming he served a tour of duty in Afghanistan and then saying, "I don't like talking about my military experience."

unusual_whales @unusual_whales wrote: This is inexcusable.

A truly wild moment yesterday from the House Financial Services Committee, where they laugh about the revolving door from Congress to the banks.

Rep Hollingsworth: She has been a team member for a couple of years now but on Monday she becomes a Bank of America team member... I hope you'll take care of her.

$BAC CEO: We'll do that. Her father already works for us.

* laughs *

Check more conflicts: https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate/lobbying

Republican candidate charged with murdering his wife with a flowerpot wins town primary from a jail cell

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:12 pm Stolen valor.
https://twitter.com/ehananoki/status/15 ... 3078445058

Eric Hananoki @ehananoki wrote: The AP just reported that military documents show Ohio House nominee J.R. "Majewski never deployed to Afghanistan" (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm ... 1c46711999).

Here he is in a tweet claiming he'd "gladly suit up and go back to Afghanistan tonight."

The AP reported on these remarks in its article: Here's video of J.R. Majewski claiming he served a tour of duty in Afghanistan and then saying, "I don't like talking about my military experience."

He was loading planes in Qatar, which many actual combat veterans have pointed out is where they were sent for R&R.

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Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego wrote: Yes, all those missions with meal team 6 were classified. Cool cool.

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski wrote: Trump endorsed congressional candidate JR Majewski today says that the reason why there is no record of him serving in combat in Afghanistan in his service record is because it is “classified.”

House GOP Rolls Out Agenda With a Fake Lincoln Quote
'D'OH!' —ABRAHAM LINCOLN
The House Republican conference thought their agenda was quoting Abraham Lincoln. It was actually quoting a Lehman Brothers ad from the 1980s.

As he rolled out the first official Republican Party congressional platform in years, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy fittingly invoked the revered father of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln.

At the top of a letter to Republican lawmakers thanking them for their contributions to the “Commitment To America”—the policy agenda they are launching near Pittsburgh on Friday—McCarthy included a quote attributed to Lincoln.

What may have injected this phrase into the public’s bloodstream was not Lincoln but Lehman Brothers, the Wall Street titan that collapsed in the 2008 financial crisis.

In 1986, Lehman Brothers placed a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal thanking its longest-tenured employees. At the top of the page is the full quote that is attributed in some places online to Lincoln.

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 2:42 pm

Ruben Gallego is a real life USMC veteran of Iraq. Majewski plays stolen valor on TV.

Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego wrote: Yes, all those missions with meal team 6 were classified. Cool cool.

Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 @RonFilipkowski wrote: Trump endorsed congressional candidate JR Majewski today says that the reason why there is no record of him serving in combat in Afghanistan in his service record is because it is “classified.”

GOP Unveils 'Commitment To America' Plan With Stock Videos Of Russia, Ukraine
“We celebrate the rich heritage of the American story,” a narrator says, over footage of a drilling rig in Russia's Volgograd region.

House Republican leaders on Friday unveiled their “Commitment to America” agenda for 2023 ― and with it, an inspirational video full of scenes presented as exceptional imagery of America that were actually stock footage from Russia and Ukraine.

The GOP’s video, “The Preamble to the Commitment to America,” opens with a narrator highlighting aspects of what it means to be an American.

“We celebrate the rich heritage of the American story and the vibrancy of the American Dream,” the voice says, over footage of a drilling rig at sunrise.

But this video snippet, an apparent nod to America’s natural resources, wasn’t filmed in America. It’s stock footage created by Serg Grbanoff, a filmmaker based in Russia.

Grbanoff told HuffPost that he filmed this scene in Russia’s Volgograd region. Here’s a screenshot of the image in the House Republican leaders’ video, versus an original shot on Shutterstock’s website:

House Republicans used stock footage of a drilling rig in Russia in their video celebrating their vision for America in 2023.
SHUTTERSTOCK/HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY'S YOUTUBE PAGE

It’s not the only instance where Grbanoff’s work appears in the GOP’s video celebrating America.

In another scene, a boy is seen smiling and running in a field with a toy airplane. The words “Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” appear on the screen, a reference to the Declaration of Independence.

This clip was also created by Grbanoff, and also filmed in the Volgograd region. Here’s a screenshot of the image in the GOP’s video versus an original shot on Shutterstock’s website:

Here is a boy holding a toy airplane who appears in a video from House Republicans celebrating American exceptionalism. This boy was actually filmed in Russia.
SHUTTERSTOCK/HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY'S YOUTUBE PAGE

At another point in the House Republican leaders’ video, they take a shot at Democrats on the economy.

“Democrats have led America off track,” the narrator says. The words “Crippling inflation and rampant crime” appear on the screen, over a shot of a woman walking through a grocery store.

The video from House Republicans also featured this woman walking through a European grocery store.
HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY'S YOUTUBE PAGE

But this is footage from a European grocery store. If you look closely at the screenshot, you can see a tag hanging on one of the store shelves that says “AKCIA,” a Slovak word meaning “action.” Informally, “AKCIA” is used to designate sales in Slovakian stores.

House Republicans almost certainly used imagery from Ukraine in their video about America, too.

The video includes a clip of a farmer carrying a bag on his shoulder in a field of corn, as the words “And the vibrancy of the American Dream” appear on the screen.

Republicans almost certainly used video footage from Ukraine in their video celebrating America.
HOUSE MINORITY LEADER KEVIN MCCARTHY'S YOUTUBE PAGE

This is also stock footage sourced from a Shutterstock contributor, DedovStock. The man featured in the clip works for DedovStock, and has a page of his work on its website. His page features shots of him in Ukraine and the Carpathian Mountains, which stretch through Ukraine and parts of Eastern Europe.

A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) did not immediately respond to a request for comment as to why GOP leaders rolled out their plan for America with a video featuring stock footage from Russia.

poplove wrote: ↑Sun Aug 14, 2022 2:14 pm Here's a followup on Joey Gilbert's failed lawsuit to overturn the results of the NV gubernatorial primary. Of course, he's going to appeal and will lose that too.

Judge shoots down Joey Gilbert election lawsuit over lack of ‘competent evidence’
https://thenevadaindependent.com/articl ... t-evidence

Maybenaut wrote: ↑Fri Sep 23, 2022 4:09 pm You probably know this already, but they *never* put classified information in military personnel records. And they *never* give out classified awards. The military knows how to document people’s service without resorting to classified data. So any time you hear someone defend why they can’t share their service information or award citation because it’s classified, they’re FULL OF SHIT.

Breaking911 @Breaking911 wrote: New campaign ad from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.): "If you hate cops just because they’re cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead."

GOP Candidate Suggested He Saw Combat When He Didn't

Christopher Wiggins
Wed, October 5, 2022 at 6:30 PM·2 min read

In his first run for Congress in 2020, Minnesota Republican candidate Tyler Kistner repeatedly claimed to have seen combat in the Marine Corps, but records prove this is untrue. So now the Republican trying to unseat the first out LGBTQ+ member of Congress from that state, Rep. Angie Craig, is trying to explain the discrepancy.

A spokesman for Kistner said he was referring to when he led combat missions in the noncombat region of North Africa, advising and assisting partner forces against violent extremist organizations, the Minnesota Reformer reports.

As the outlet stated, he would have received a combat action ribbon if he had fought in combat; however, he never received one. Military definitions of combat include engagement against an enemy on the ground in a combat zone.

The progressive veterans group VoteVets requested that local television stations remove ads that said Kistner had served in four combat deployments.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-candidat ... 13099.html

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 2:37 pm Kennedy is a crackhead.
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/ ... 2621130757

Breaking911 @Breaking911 wrote: New campaign ad from Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.): "If you hate cops just because they’re cops, the next time you get in trouble, call a crackhead."

Greg Price @greg_price11 wrote: Sen. Kennedy: “I have hope for my liberal friends. Jellyfish have survived for 165 million years without a brain.”

Curtis said he is “unapologetically pro-life.” The Supreme Court, he said, ruled that there is no right to an abortion in the Constitution, which then pushed the issue to the states.

“I get it. If you’re a woman, it stinks” that most of these legislators are men and most of these decisions are made by men, Curtis said. “I wish it were other than that. I wish as a man I didn’t have to make this decision. I wish women could make this decision.”

State legislatures, he said, must thoughtfully decide what they want to do.

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 9:23 am I think the debates are Kabuki Theater and never watch them.