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GOP LGBT Issues WTF?!

Lauren Boebert: Anyone Upset With Florida’s Anti-LGBTQ Laws Should ‘Build’ Their Own Florida

The always intellectually-challenged Congresswoman from Colorado, Lauren Boebert (R), says that if you’re upset about Florida passing laws that are blatantly discriminatory towards the LGBTQ community, you simply need to get busy and build your own Florida.

Wait…what?! What in the hell does that even mean?

On Saturday, Boebert posted this tweet:

Shouldn’t any decisions regarding what a kid does regarding their body be left to the child and their parents instead of a legislator in Tallahassee? And hasn’t the Republican Party been saying for centuries that government needs to stay the hell out of regulating private businesses?

When Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill and then endorsed stripping Walt Disney World of their designation as a “special district,” what he was telling the people of his state is that the government knows better than the voters who put them into office. He’s going to protect you from things you didn’t even feel the need to be protected from, because such decisions are personal and private, as they damn well should be.

The move by Florida is merely the culmination of what Republicans have been doing for decades: Imposing their morals and religion on others, even though they weren’t elected for that purpose.

And the action against Disney is also going to have severe economic consequences for Orange County, where the massive theme park is located:

Tax experts and legislators say eliminating the district could have unintended consequences for county taxpayers. Disney’s special tax district status allows the company to levy an additional tax on itself to pay for municipal services, something that other counties cannot do. That tax currently amounts to $105 million per year, said Orange County tax collector Scott Randolph. Reedy Creek also receives additional revenue of nearly $60 million from Disney to pay its bond debt.

Sunsetting Reedy Creek means that local counties will begin paying for those services without that special status in place. Taxpayers will likely be left to foot the bill for potholes and emergency services.

So now Lauren Boebert wants us to build our own Florida? Here’s a better idea: Maybe the right-wing extremists need to build their own country somewhere on a deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. Preferably one that’s prone to flooding and multiple hurricane strikes.

The best suggestions, however, came from other Twitter users, who took Boebert to task.

 

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Congress Crime Elections GOP

Legal Experts: Marjorie Taylor Greene Committed Perjury Numerous Times Today

Today in Atlanta, an administrative hearing was held to determine if Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is indeed an insurrectionist and should be removed from the November ballot.

On dozens of occasions, Greene said she didn’t remember or didn’t recall when she was asked questions by an attorney representing Free Speech for People and voters in Greene’s congressional district who brought the challenge to her candidacy as she seeks reelection.

According to the Washington Post:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, testifying Friday about her alleged role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol as part of a case seeking to disqualify her from seeking reelection, said she could not remember whether she urged President Donald Trump to impose martial law as a way to remain in power.

“I don’t recall,” Greene (R-Ga.) said in response to questioning by an attorney representing the plaintiffs in the case.

“So you’re not denying you did it?” asked the attorney, Andrew G. Celli Jr. “You just don’t remember.”

“I don’t remember,” Greene replied.

Unfortunately for Greene, however, she didn’t maintain that lack of recall when it came to all of the questions she was asked, and that led her to commit perjury on numerous occasions, according to legal experts who watched the congresswoman’s testimony.

The most egregious examples of Greene allegdly lying under oath were when she was asked about postings made on her social media accounts, insisting that she didn’t remember certain tweets in which she called for Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to be killed.

Minutes later, however, Greene suddenly had perfect recall and was able to remember things she had posted online. So was the she lying when she didn’t recall or when she did? Either way, she lied under oath, which is a crime and set off calls for her to be prosecuted for perjury.

Elie Mystal of The Nation wondered, “Who is handling the upcoming MTG perjury prosecution?”

Others also had thoughts on the lies Greene allegedly told while under oath:

https://twitter.com/ecrire831/status/1517578626438352896?s=20&t=6Pr1j05izbBQ6qPLsprjSA

FYI: Perjury is a felony in the state of Georgia and is punishable by a fine of $1,000 or by a prison term between 1 and 10 years, or both.

Margie better hope she has a damn good attorney on retainer.

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Fox News GOP

Mike Pompeo Gets Roasted For His ‘Freudian Slip’ During An Appearance On Fox News

During an appearance on Fox News Thursday evening, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said something he probably wishes he could take back.

Pompeo, who served in the Trump administration, was speaking with Fox host Laura Ingraham, who asked him:

“Why does the left act as if conservatives are a bigger threat to America than the” Chinese Communist Party?

Pompeo replied:

“Because, in fact, we often are.”

Damn! Mike said the quiet part out loud. And there’s definitely a case to be made that conservatives are indeed a bigger threat to the United States and China, if only because the conservatives are holding positions of power where they routinely work against the best interests of their own country.

It’s also important to note that Ingraham didn’t ask if Pompeo thought Russia was the biggest threat to the U.S. at the current time. Failed, one-term former President Donald Trump certainly didn’t think so, and he cozied up to Russian mass murderer/war criminal Vladimir Putin every chance he got.

Twitter quickly reminded Pompeo that he’d finally said something truthful:

https://twitter.com/davidmweissman/status/1517340134248783872?s=20&t=l1n6FKX8SxCShbl1nmQH9A

 

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Congress GOP WTF?!

Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Directly Threatened Black Female Democrats

Now that it’s becoming clear she may be disqualified from the November midterm ballot and also face criminal charges for her part in the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is lashing out and even going so far as to threaten some female Democrats who just so happen to be black.

During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show Monday evening, Greene whined about a legal challenge filed which would keep her from holding elected office under a clause found in the 14th Amendment which says no person is allowed to be a member of Congress who “shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

Carlson began the interview with the Georgia Republican by remarking:

“They are just trying to take their opponents off the ballot. They are attacking democracy.”

That was all Greene needed to go off on a rant:

“They look down on them because they voted for me and sent me to Washington to fight for the things that most Americans care about, like secure borders, stopping abortion, protecting our Second Amendment, stopping the out-of-control spending in Washington, stop funding never-ending foreign wars.”

She then proceeded to lay out a vast conspiracy that she claims has been launched against her:

“Now the progressives, the people that donate, the dark money groups, the 501(c)(3)s and the foundations, they have hired some attorneys from New York who hate the people in my district and don’t believe they should have the right to elect who they want to send to Washington, which is me.”

Greene added:

“Now they have filed a lawsuit because they are trying to rip my name off the ballot and steal my district’s ability to re-elect me and send me back to Congress.”

Yes, because you encouraged and supported an insurrection against the U.S. government! That’s a disqualifying act!

But it was what Greene said next that certainly sounds like a direct threat to some top Democrats:

“If you can challenge any representative’s candidacy or an elected officeholder, I bet you we could round up some Republican voters who didn’t like Kamala Harris funding rioters, criminal rioters out of jail or Ilhan Omar or Cori Bush or Maxine Waters inciting riots. I think there is another way to play this game.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=174&v=eqdeTJaogis&feature=emb_logo

Greene doesn’t deserve to hold office. She gave up that right by being part of a coup attempt. And if he can be proven that she broke any federal laws, she should also be prosecuted and sent to prison.

 

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Congress GOP Social Media WTF?!

This Tweet From Lauren Boebert Is So Crazy That Social Media Users Are Still Shaking Their Heads

It’s a given that some crazy stuff gets posted on social media. If you doubt that, just take a spin around Twitter or Facebook on any given day and you’ll run across all kinds of head-scratching nonsense that borders on unintelligible and/or vapid.

But a tweet posted by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has completely confounded even the most forgiving of social media patrons because it quite simply makes no sense whatsoever.

Here’s an attempt to decrypt that word salad:

Inflation numbers were released, so the first sentence checks out.

But the “tobacco industry being immune from prostitutes being sued” is a complete non sequitur. Where in the hell did that come from, and what does it mean? Do you recall reading anything in the news lately about the tobacco industry being sued by prostitutes or vice versa?

As for “any sort of economic solution,” be sure and note that Ms. Boebert provided no ideas of her own regarding economic policies she thinks might be used to combat inflation.

Twitter users were left shaking their heads to the point of dizziness.