Month: April 2023

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Congress GOP

Jim Jordan’s Sordid Past Will Be Fair Game For Democrats At Next Week’s Alvin Bragg Hearing: Report

When he brings down the gavel Monday for a House Judiciary Committee hearing being held on the topic of crime in Manhattan, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) may wish he had never conceived of what is clearly a publicity stunt, according to a political analyst.

Matthew Dowd told MSNBC host Ayman Mohyeldin on Sunday morning that as Jordan continues his accusations against Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for what he calls his “pro-crime, anti-victim policies,” the congressman had better expect his own sordid past to be fair game for Democrats on the committee.

Specifically, Dowd noted, is the lingering questions about Jordan’s involvement in the sexual assault of wrestlers at Ohio State University while he was a coach of the team. Jordan never reported any of the attacks on student-athletes.

“The facts is, not only does Columbus have three times the crime rate that New York City has, the actual hometown and where Jim Jordan is from has a higher crime rate a small town has a higher crime rate than New York City in the course that eight of the top ten crime rate states in America are red states,” Dowd began.

That led to Dowd referencing Jordan’s past:

“And, the other thing, I’ll just add: if he really wanted to find out answers to the unanswered questions about crime, then hold it on the Ohio State University campus and ask about the sexual abuse scandals that occurred while he was the wrestling coach. That would be a more formal and more interesting thing to find out undiscovered information.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jm0HiRXBhc&t=1s

Monday’s hearing should be fascinating in all sorts of ways.

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Business GOP

GOP’s Boycott Of Bud Light Gets Called Off Because Party Needs Anheuser-Busch’s Campaign Bucks

All week long, social media has been littered with various meltdowns, protests, and calls for boycotts of Bud Light beer and its parent company, Anheuser-Busch, for daring to partner with a trans influencer by the name of Dylan Mulvaney, who is a major star on TikTok.

As Business Insider reports, many right-wingers and other conservative crybabies have been posting videos of themselves destroying cans of Bud Light (which of course they first had to purchase) and vowing to never ever drink any Budweiser product again.

Now conservatives, angry with the brand’s association with Mulvaney, started taking out their rage on beer cans. 

One example was the singer and far-right figure Kid Rock, who posted a video on his Instagram page. In the video, he uses his rifle to shoot multiple cans of Bud Light stacked atop each other on a wooden table.

 
 
 
 
 
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Other far-right wingers quickly caught on and found ways to show their displeasure with the brand. Some people — like TikTok user tanmanwho — tossed their beers into garbage cans.

However, it turns out that the Republican establishment isn’t ready to dump Bud, Bud Light, or Anheuser-Busch. Why? Well, because they desperately need their campaign contributions, which are significant, according to The Daily Beast.

The National Republican Congressional Committee quietly deleted a fundraising page Saturday that took aim at one of their largest donors, the parent company of Bud Light, Anheuser-Busch.

This comes shortly after the NRCC accused Bud Light of tasting like water and attempting to raise money off that premise.

“Thanks to Dylan Mulvaney, we can all finally admit that Bud Light tastes like water,” the NRCC said in a since-deleted tweet that The Daily Beast reviewed and can be seen below. “With our new koozie’s, you can make sure no one confuses Bud Light with real beer ever again.”

A corresponding page for GOP fundraising was also given the delete button, but not before screenshots could be made.

“Woke companies making you feel like drinking?” the fundraiser continued, using Bud Light’s iconic blue writing. “Then this limited-edition koozie is perfect for you! Just chip in $10 to CLAIM YOUR LIMITED-EDITION KOOZIE!”

How much money are we talking about that the NRCC was afraid to give up? Well, in the 2022 election cycle, Anheuser-Busch and its employees gave the NRCC almost $465,000.

One GOP operative told The Daily Beast (off the record, of course), “I assume they backtracked because they realized they were biting the hand that feeds them, and as soon as word gets around about that, why would anyone else give them big money in the future?”

If you listen closely, you can almost hear the homophobic right-wing snowflakes having a hissy fit.

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Climate Change GOP Social Media WTF?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Tries To ‘Explain’ Climate Change But Only Proves Her MASSIVE Ignorance

Gather ’round, class. Marjorie Taylor Greene is going to enlighten us all on the topic of climate change.

Yes, you read that correctly: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) decided she’d take to social media and explain climate change by dismissing it as something that just happens and is no biggie.

“If you believe that today’s ‘climate change’ is caused by too much carbon, you have been fooled. We live on a spinning planet that rotates around a much bigger sun along with other planets and heavenly bodies rotating around the sun that all create gravitational pull on one another while our galaxy rotates and travels through the universe. Considering all of that, yes our climate will change, and it’s totally normal! There is no amount of taxes or carbon reduction that will stop or tame weather events or climate change. But there are some very powerful people that are getting rich beyond their wildest dreams convincing many that carbon is the enemy and that if humans sacrifice enough energy producing things we can actually control the climate. Don’t fall for the scam, fossil fuels are natural and amazing. They produce an abundance of energy that we all need to survive along with more products than you can possibly imagine.”

What in the living hell does that even mean? The planet is spinning and moving while the galaxy rotates, so that’s why we have climate change? There’s dumb, and there’s Marjorie Taylor Greene dumb.

But something good did come out of Greene’s gibberish: The mocking replies.

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Crime Donald Trump

Democratic Congressman Levels Failed Former POTUS: ‘Donald Trump Is The Thug!

Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) said Saturday on MSNBC that he was absolutely disgusted by remarks made by failed former president Donald Trump when he addressed the 2023 NRA convention.

Speaking with host Jonathan Capehart, Bowman noted that Trump’s continued denial that guns are a reason the United States has so many mass shootings, the congressman let loose with a verbal fusillade.

“Donald Trump is the thug! Donald Trump is the thug. He admitted on video, excuse me, he was being recorded and didn’t know he was being recorded, he admitted to sexually assaulting women!”

Bowman was just getting warmed up, however, adding, “He is a man that has engaged in business practices that have been criminal, where he has had to shut down Trump University after raising all kinds of money. He doesn’t pay his taxes. He incited an insurrection! He is the thug.”

The congressman then used the words of another MSNBC host to fully excoriate the disgraced ex-president:

“To quote your colleague, [Medhi] Hasan, every accusation by the GOP is a confession. That is who he is, and that is who they have been banning books, attacks on trans communities, cutting Medicare, cutting Social Security, doing nothing about guns their thuggish behavior leads to the death of people.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIR7mK4SMx8

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Donald Trump Gun Nuts

Trump Turns His Friday NRA Speech Into Early Festivus And Airs His Petty Grievances: Video

Indicted and failed one-term former president Donald Trump showed up at the 2023 NRA convention in Indianapolis on Friday, but he used most of his speech to air his own grievances as numerous criminal investigations continue to close in on him.

The one-term ex-POTUS began by attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James.

“What they are doing is destroying our great country. I want to congratulate you for fighting it so bravely, all of the things that have been happening to you, the racist and — ran for office on, I will get Trump. Didn’t know anything about me, running for office. I said, who is that maniac? A lot of people in the race, you get a few people to vote, very few people it takes to get in. She proclaimed I look forward to going into the office of attorney general every single day, suing him, and going home, very happy. I — I said, I hope she gets in.”

Did he move on? No, he continued with his rant aimed at AG James.

“What is fueling my soul right now, she announced, is getting Trump. She knows nothing about me. It’s not an investigation. It’s a persecution.”

Then he turned to others investigating him.

“Just like her attacks on the NRA and the witchhunts against us by the Manhattan D.A., the Marxist D.A. In Atlanta and the guy I have a watching — the guy from Washington, special prosecutor, special counsel, I call it a prosecutor, it’s better. Biden has a 1850 boxes that are unaccounted for. He had many boxes in Chinatown. Classified information, many boxes. They got them out of there, but they got caught. That’s called obstruction. They sent them up to Boston. Then it was revealed he got millions of dollars from the Chinese.”

Woe is me! And there was even more.

“But he has boxes in Chinatown, boxes all over the place. They don’t care about that, they only care about Trump. They are trying to arrest their political opposition. It’s very much like the old Soviet Union. With the elections and interference. They are interfering with the election. It’s going to be hard for them to get away with the kind of corruption they did when they had Covid because Covid made a lot of things bad for a lot of. They cheated and it will be hard.”

Boxes in Chinatown? What in the hell does that even mean? Oh, and be sure and notice that he returned to the bullshit about how he was cheated out of a second term.

If this is any indication of the speeches we can expect from Donnie in the future, he should just go ahead and concede the 2024 race right now, because he’s even more batshit crazy than he was the first time he ran.