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She’s a white supremacist with a bad fake tan….and a crook, apparently

Hardly a day goes by where the Republicans and their mouthpieces aren’t fanning the flames of white nationalism or getting caught with white nationalist ties, promoting racist tropes like “population replacement theory” or claiming that acknowledging racism is “anti-white” Just look at all their hysteria over a black female USSC judge and made-up boogeymen like “critical race theory”. And look how they’re falling all over themselves to ban books from libraries and outlaw any teaching about racism in school, putting cameras in classrooms so that conservative activists can monitor teachers for “subversive” teaching about race. The Republicans are trying to pass a bill right now that would require any history lesson to be “patriotic” and must not portray USA “negatively” or teach “divisive concepts”. That’s straight out of the fascist playbook and something you’d expect to hear from a dictatorship or Communist China. From just recent headlines alone Texas GOP gubernatorial candidate says he won’t fire staffer tied to white nationalist movement https://www.texastribune.org/2022/01/20/don-huffines-staffer-white-nationalist-ties/amp/ Tucker Carlson Claims Biden White House ‘Hates’ White Americans Who Overdose on Opioids https://uk.news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-claims-biden-white-041753242.html GOP state House candidate spreads white supremacist comments in Facebook video During a Facebook live video Tuesday, Mellissa Carone, a Republican candidate running for the state House in 2022 who is known for testifying to state lawmakers alongside Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani last year, said that public schools and the government are trying to “eliminate” white people in America https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/gop-state-house-candidate-spreads-white-supremacist-comments-in-facebook-video/Content?oid=28799254&media=AMP+HTML US conservatives linked to rich donors wage campaign to ban books from schools Conservative groups across the US, often linked to deep-pocketed rightwing donors, are carrying out a campaign to ban books from school libraries, often focused on works that address race, LGBTQ issues or marginalized communities. Literature has already been removed from schools in Texas, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. Librarians and teachers warn the trend is on the increase, as groups backed by wealthy Republican donors use centrally drawn up tactics and messaging to harangue school districts into removing certain texts. In October, the Texas state representative Matt Krause sent a list of 850 books to school districts, asking that they report how many copies they have of each title and how much had been spent on those books.… n Pennsylvania, the Central York school board banned a long list of books, almost entirely titles by, or about, people of color, including books by Jacqueline Woodson, Ijeoma Oluo and Ibram X Kendi, and children’s titles about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. “Let’s just call it what it is – every author on that list is a Black voice,” one teacher told the York Dispatch. Four high schools in Utah’s Canyons school district removed copies of at least nine books, the Deseret News reported, including Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe; the Bluest Eye, a book by the Pulitzer winner Toni Morrison that addresses racial and gender oppression; and Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez, a story about romance in a racially divided 1930s Texas. Groups purporting to be “grassroots” efforts have frequently led the charge, petitioning school boards or elected officials to remove certain books. Though some of these organizations present themselves as a local effort that sprang up around groups of parents united behind a cause, many of the groups involved in banning books are in fact linked, and backed by influential conservative donors. Most of the books relate to race or gender equality, at a time when some Republicans are mounting an effort to prevent teaching on race in schools by launching a loud campaign against critical race theory, an academic discipline that examines the ways in which racism operates in US laws and society.

This Republican election cheat is now a 2-time criminal Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters arrested after allegedly recording court hearing Mesa county’s Republican clerk and recorder, Tina Peters, who is currently being investigated by a grand jury for election tampering and misconduct, was arrested on unrelated charges Tuesday in Grand Junction. The incident occurred as police were trying to carry out a search warrant to seize Peters’ iPad to determine whether she illegally recorded a criminal court hearing Monday. According to the affidavit for the search warrant, Peters may have used her iPad to film part of the hearing, in spite of posted signs saying recordings are prohibited, and then lied to the judge about her actions. If Peters is found to have done those things, she could be charged with attempting to influence a public servant. https://www.cpr.org/2022/02/08/mesa-county-clerk-tina-peters-arrested-after-allegedly-recording-court-hearing/

Pence: Trump is “wrong” to say election could be overturned “The American people must know that we will always keep our oath to the Constitution, even when it would be politically expedient to do otherwise,” he told the group Friday. He noted that, under Article II Section One of the Constitution, “elections are conducted at the state level, not by Congress” and that “the only role of Congress with respect to the Electoral College is to open and count votes submitted and certified by the states. No more, no less.” “Frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,” he added. “Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election. And Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024.” https://www.denverpost.com/2022/02/04/pence-trump-is-wrong-to-say-election-could-be-overturned/amp/ The bolded part is how you know Trump supporters would gladly support a dictatorship. They think it’s totally normal and acceptable that one man - the man who lost the election -could simply set aside the results of the election and name himself if it pleased him to do so, especially with no evidence required, no formal court hearings or procedures required. And they’re angry that he didn’t.

Failed Toronto mayoral candidate failed to report expenses, accepted illegal donations: Report Auditor's report says far-right gadfly Faith Goldy broke election law, failed to co-operate with auditors https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/failed-toronto-mayoral-candidate-failed-to-report-expenses-accepted-illegal-donations-report/wcm/aaab40d2-bd61-4fee-8f0b-ef13dbb20615/amp/ Faith Goldy, far-right 2018 Toronto mayoral candidate, faces possible prosecution over election finances David Rider Faith Goldy, a far-right pundit who has promoted white supremacy, faces possible prosecution over her 2018 Toronto mayoral race campaign finances. The city’s compliance committee voted Tuesday, after a three-hour online hearing, to refer damning audit findings to a provincial prosecutor. The members heard that Goldy failed to disclose more than $150,000 in campaign donations, illegally accepted donations from non-Ontarians, mixed her personal and campaign finances, and didn’t co-operate with the committee-ordered audit. Now there’s a name of a totally irrelevant far-right kook you probably never thought you’d hear again! So just like in the 2020 US election it turns out the real fraud was carried out by the right-wingers who were screaming “fraud”. @Infidel Dogreally had it bad for Goldy back then, he would just post after post after post about her. I bet he must be heartbroken to learn once again he’s devoted to a right wing crook. Wait wait let me guess: hilariously crazy right wing conspiracy theory coming in 3…2….1…

Back to the topic at hand, here’s another REAL case of REPUBLICANS COMMITTING ELECTION FRAUD that I’m sure the righties in their bubble never heard about: the fake candidate scheme Republicans were running in Florida, did I mention this one before? It’s getting hard to keep track Prominent Florida political consultants may face criminal charges in sham candidate case A court document notes several operatives have received ‘prior to’ letters, which are usually sent to targets of an investigation MIAMI — Prosecutors appear to be targeting prominent Republican and Democratic operatives in Florida for potential criminal charges stemming from a 2020 Miami-Dade election scheme marked by sham candidates, court records reveal. Those targets: Alex Alvarado, a Republican consultant; Dan Newman, a prominent Democratic fundraiser; Richard Alexander, the chairman of the dark-money group Grow United; and Let’s Preserve the American Dream, a Tallahassee-based nonprofit run by Ryan Tyson, a top GOP pollster in Florida. … The case against Artiles The criminal case is focused on whether Artiles recruited and paid an auto-parts dealer who shared the same surname as the Democratic incumbent more than $40,000 to run as a no-party candidate in the race for Senate District 37 to “confuse voters and influence the outcome” of the 2020 election, according to his arrest affidavit. Republican state Sen. Ileana Garcia won the election by 32 votes. The no-party candidate, Alexis “Alex” Rodriguez, who did not campaign, received more than 6,000 votes. Rodriguez has pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors. Evidence in the case shows that in addition to Artiles, Miami investigators also are focused on finding the source of more than half a million dollars spent on misleading political mail advertisements that promoted the candidacy of Rodriguez by portraying him as a progressive candidate to appeal to likely Democrat voters. That’s where Alvarado, Alexander, Newman and Let’s Preserve the American Dream appear to have become part of the investigation. Alvarado set up two political committees, The Truth and Our Florida, that paid for the political mail advertisements. The mailers were paid with $550,000 that was funneled through the dark-money group Grow United, a tax-exempt Delaware corporation chaired by Alexander. Evidence in the case shows that Alvarado paid two young women with no political experience to chair the political committees. He told the Miami Herald in April 2021 that no one hired him to execute the efforts…. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2022/01/05/prominent-florida-political-consultants-may-face-criminal-charges-in-sham-candidate-case/?outputType=amp

Yeah and there was no MSM coverage of the riots in the USA eh? Chauvin was convicted of murder, not some lesser charge, which is extremely rare for an accused police officer in the US where police are effectively above the law. The evidence against him was pretty compelling. Usually they’re not even charged and almost all of the ones who are charged are never convicted.

You said it was “exculpatory” and it clearly wasn’t. You think it was so “exculpatory” that the rioters immediately stopped rioting… I guess you’re saying because the rioters are reasonable people and the evidence was so compelling who they accepted the so-called facts and admitted that they were mistaken? LMAO

Hey look another Republican crook Indicted Nixa lawmaker Tricia Derges denied dismissal of charges, recusal of prosecutor U.S. District Court Judge Brian Wimes ruled that the dismissal request from Rep. Tricia Derges, a Nixa Republican who was indicted on 23 federal charges last year, was "frivolous and unsupported by law." Derges is alleged to have sold fake stem cell treatments, fraudulently used federal pandemic aid, wrote illegal prescriptions and lied to federal investigators; she has denied any wrongdoing. https://amp.news-leader.com/amp/9238940002

Even low class criminals and hard drug addicts have the right not to be murdered. That’s what you fascists can’t understand.

@WestCanMan I did not make a bigoted comment. You just have no idea what a bigoted comment is. It’s that simple. Tell me again why women should not be allowed to serve in the military and tell me you’re not a bigot. Tell me again that systemic racism doesn’t exist and tell me you’re not a bigot It doesn’t surprise me that you don’t think you’re a bigot, most bigots don’t.

There’s nothing bigoted about it. But given your well-established grudges against women and Blacks that you’ve shared on this site, you’re probably the last one to understand what a bigot is. Because you live in a world of funhouse mirrors.

So your post is lame generic insult, lame generic insult, lame generic insult and then a demonstration that you have no idea what the word “bigot” means. I bet you really patted yourself on the back for that one!

I have many time now and you never responded to any of them. Again this is a typical Republican reality-denying MO, where you ignore everyone disputing your claim and then say “nobody has even tried to dispute it” Remember the analogy about a losing athlete disagreeing with ref while accepting the results is not the same as a losing athlete baselessly accusing the ref of taking bribes and the entire league of criminal corruption while offering zero evidence and demanding that they receive the trophy while launching dozens of baseless and unjustified lawsuits that cost taxpayers millions and fail at the very first stage due to lacking even basic legal standards, and then a bunch of the losing athlete’s fans try to storm league offices and murder league officials while the losing athlete eggs them on and continues to demand the trophy to this very day? I used that analogy twice in this forum in addition to other comments on your false comparisons to THE BIG LIE. They are not even remotely the same. How many time do I have to fucking repeat myself ? Are you going to ignore this post too, @ironstone?

Uh no. Your attempts to permanently end US democracy and free and fair elections, are a completely different subject from some riots that came and went. More than 700 coup attempters have been charged so far. And I did say it was hare-brained didn’t I? The idiots actually thought that if they killed/captured enough Congressmen and publicly lynched Mike Pence in front of his family we would just make Trump president and all would be water under the bridge Others had less violent ideas to he sure but they all thought that somehow their assault would lead to Trump seizing power. Everything in my earlier post stands, you hypocrite Your “gut instinct” or “6th sense” or whatever it is you uneducated people believe guides you to the “real truth” in absence of all facts doesn’t actually exist. If you had any amount of intellectual ability you would say that either BOTH Trump and Clinton can be accused despite no conviction or NEITHER should be accused due to lack of conviction. Bit like a true hypocrite you want trumps lack of conviction to PROVE he’s innocent while Hillary’s lack of conviction is irrelevant because “you just know deep down” it’s true. Your hypocrisy is both a sign of your low educational attainment and your blind sheeplike mentality. In other words I’m dead on and you have no response so you desperately and falsely claim criticizing conservatives is bigotry now. You’re so lame.

CONSPIRACY!! CONSPIRACY!!! FALSE FLAG!! DON’T BELIEVE YOUR EYES AND EARS THE WORLD IS NOT AS IT SEEMS!!!!” LMAO That’s why Republicans are always defending the Confederate flags and statues and Trump rioters were waving confederate flags in the Capitol, while Democrats are always trying to take down confederate symbols eh? All those Black Civil Rights leaders including those who marched with MLK like Jesse Jackson and John Lewis are all too dumb to know they’ve been fooled by a KKK plot because black people are just not as smart as the white man right? The racist southern conservative political bloc was disenfranchised from the Democratic Party in the 60s and 70s and was welcomed into the Republican Party by Goldwater and Nixon as part of the Southern Strategy. That is a fact of history. THE BIG LIE IS TRUMP’S REICHSTAG FIRE AND YOU WILL UNWITTINGLY FOLLOW REPUBLICANS TO DICTATORSHIP ONE “PERFECTLY HARMLESS” BABY STEP AT A TIME. And then one day you will wake up in your totalitarian fascist state and wonder “How on earth did we get here”?

We’re talking about the election stop trying to change the subject. Specifically your false comparisons of how some Democrat saying they don’t like Trump is equivalent to Republican attempts to steal the election. But of note, your Trump-loving Jan 6 rioters tried most of those tactics you mention in their hare-brained failed coup attempt. No I already explained to you why that’s not “election cheating” and if you want to claim Trump never broke any laws on account of never being charged or convicted then Ill point out that Hillary has never been charged or convicted either. You’re trying to have it both ways which is typical of right wing hypocrites: people you hate are held to completely different standard than the people you worship. In fact that’s the definition feature of conservatism: it’s not so much based on a set of logic, values or beliefs its based on blind worship and blind hatred. Regardless of facts, logic or values, Republicans believe that people in the first group are to admired, revered and believed without question, and people in the second group are subhumans to be despised, undeserving of even basic rights, and disbelieved without question. And now conservatives are increasingly of the belief that there’s no sitting on the sidelines everyone must pick a side or it will be picked for them and they will be in the second group. That’s why they won’t even accept the premise of any neutral or independent assessment of THE BIG LIE. Anyone daring to be “neutral” or independent by Trump is by definition an enemy The only people you trust to assess the validity of Trumps claims are thoe who have already pre-pledged their undying devotion to Trump and accept his words as self-verifying truth and indisputable gospel. Bullshit and lies within your constant false equation of peaceful protests with riots. Plus, the white house was never attacked, your cowardly leader and his bone spurs hid in the bunker from a peaceful demonstration.

Get your facts straight Debunking 6 Myths About Voting By Mail 1) MYTH: Absentee ballots are more secure than mail-in ballots. Absentee ballots have historically described mailed ballots cast by folks who have an excuse to be “absent” from their voting jurisdiction on Election Day (due to things like hospitalization, military service, physical disability, etc.). In 34 states and Washington, D.C., folks can regularly participate in “no-excuse absentee voting,” meaning they can vote by absentee even if they are physically available on Election Day, just for the convenience of it. (And this year, only five states are requiring an excuse beyond COVID-19 to vote absentee in November!). As these policies developed over time, and the “absent” part of absentee voting became less rigid, election officials have called them a lot of different things: advanced ballots, vote-by-mail ballots, mail ballots, etc. In most cases, the terms “absentee ballots” and “mail-in ballots” are interchangeable, as they both refer to ballots that are sent and/or received outside of a polling place. In just a handful of states, “mail-in ballot” refers specifically to their universal mail-in voting policies -- where all registered voters are automatically sent their ballots via mail (more on that below). 2) MYTH: Voting by mail is a new concept this election year. Mail-in voting may be especially in the spotlight this year because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but it’s been around for a long time. Absentee voting goes as far back as the Civil War, and no-excuse absentee voting has been a thing for about 40 years now. Even prior to this election, every state offers some form of vote-by-mail, whether for an approved excuse or just convenience In fact, five states (Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) always conduct their elections primarily by mail, in which all registered voters receive a mailed ballot by default (that universal mail-in voting mentioned above!). Oregon, the first of the bunch to adopt universal mail-in voting, has been doing it successfully for decades. 3) MYTH: Voting by mail encourages states to send out unsolicited ballots, including to those ineligible to vote. The majority of states that offer methods to vote by mail require voters to request a ballot ahead of time if they’re planning to vote absentee. The exceptions are universal mail-in voting states, which include the five that have historically conducted their elections this way, and four that are adopting it in 2020. In these states, ballots are automatically sent only to those with active voter registrations -- not to every person in the state 4) MYTH: Voting by mail is less secure than voting in person. Because states have been doing this for a while, they have A LOT of measures in place to make sure that mail ballots are secure and that election integrity is maintained. Here are some examples, sourced from the Brennan Center for Justice: Verifying identity: Voters must provide their personal information and signature, which election officials match against voter rolls. Bar codes: Some states assign barcodes to each ballot, making it easier for officials to track ballots and identify duplicates. Voters can also use them to make sure their ballots have been received. Secure drop-off locations: Some voters opt to drop-off their ballots in a designated location prior to Election Day, and states take steps to make them as secure as possible. Drop boxes are constructed to be tamper-proof, and they’re often supervised by election officials or equipped with security cameras. Penalties: States discourage voter fraud (which is a federal crime) by enacting their own criminal and civil penalties in addition to the hefty fines and prison sentences available under federal law. 5) MYTH: Voting by mail favors one political party over another. Several studies have found no evidence that vote-by-mail methods give either party an advantage. The majority of those voting by mail are folks who were already most likely to vote anyway. Looking specifically at universal mail-in voting states, research has found that mail-in voting doesn’t significantly impact either party’s share of votes. Slight partisan advantages have been found in some universal mail-in elections, favoring both Republicans and Democrats at different times and locations. Some studies suggest vote-by-mail methods may just lead to increased voter turnout in general, and greater civic participation is an overall win for our democracy. 6) MYTH: Voting by mail leads to increased voter fraud. Several studies have found that voter fraud is exceedingly rare in general, and more often linked to other factors (like administrative errors) than vote-by-mail methods. A report from The Brennan Center for Justice determined that incident rates of voter fraud are between 0.0003% and 0.0025% (less than the chance of being struck by lightning). The Washington Post's investigation of voter fraud in the 2016 election found only four documented cases and a few dozen potential cases of voter fraud. Just one documented case was linked to absentee voting. According to The Heritage Foundation, Oregon, the state that’s conducted universal mail-in voting for the longest, has reported 14 cases of voter fraud related to mail-in voting over the span of 19 years and 15 million votes. (You can look through this comprehensive list of credible research and investigations conducted on voter fraud for more information.)

We are! You are the ones trying to steal the White House and end US democracy based on absurd and totally unproven baseless lies

The federalist is a right wing propaganda site why would it be useful for any objective evaluation of right wing propaganda? You conveniently ignored my debunking if your last is…is that your M.O., just keep posting new propaganda, ignore all responses and keep changing the channel? Seems to be a common tactic on the Right

Funny the posterboy case of proven “ballot harvesting” fraud thst Republicans cite is actually a North Carolina Republican a few years back who tried it and got caught. Conveniently you guys leave out the Republican part. He tried to cheat and failed because the system works. And still a year later you can’t produce a single shred of evidence that there was massive election fraud in 2020 despite claiming that it was millions and millions in every voting jurisdiction. Ridiculous.

And yet you haven’t been able to produce a single shred evidence that this resulted in any widespread fraud. In fact most fraud that’s been detected has been Trump supporters who were caught by the system and their votes were never counted because the system works. absentee voting and mail-in voting are the same thing the only difference is what is considered an acceptable excuse. And yea considering Americans normally have to spend hours in line to vote and yeah COVID is a perfectly reasonable reason and that is why even Republican states allowed mail in voting

That’s false. Mail-in ballots have always been a feature of US elections. Of course the rules are different in every state but there have always been military personnel, out of state college students, Americans living abroad, people with disabilities etc who have been able to vote by mail. All that happened in 2020 was that eligibility was expanded due to COViD or people in places where it was already available chose that option due to COViD. Mail-in ballots have always been available in Canada too. Get your facts straight

Not even close. Quit trying to compare wildebeests and watermelons they’re not the same thing.

Clearly you’re out of touch. ITS A FACT that forged state elector certificates for Trump were sent to Washington for 7 states that Biden won. It’s a FACT that Trump drafted an order for the military to seize voting machines. It’s A FACT that Gingrich publicly threatened to jail 1/6 investigators. Yeah like I keep saying you’re “not concerned” with Republicans staging a coup, capturing government and jailing anyone who interferes with their agenda to turn America into a right wing dictatorship. That objectively makes you a villain. What you don’t understand is that its never ok to support dictatorship and overturn democracy, even if you think said dictator truly is a great man and will do great things for the nation That’s not exactly a denial lol F course Trump isn’t going to say “help me become a dictator and I’ll rule woth an iron fist” When Hitler ran for election he never said he’d become a dictator, end future elections, start wars or the holocaust either He just broke rules and conventions amd norms one by one always with some flimsy excuse of why he was uniquely justified to do so and his followers just believed him. That’s much the same way Trumps followers willingly believe the obviously flimsy BIG LIE claim and think Trump is uniquely entitled to unseat an elected president with absolutely zero evidence or due process or adherence to any established norms or authority. To you people, Trumps words alone are the only authority that can justify Trumps words So yeah of course if Trump said “help me illegitimately seize power and permanently rule as an absolute dictator” of course most people wouldn’t be on board But that’s not how democracies get stolen But Trump claims falsely that he is the rightful president you will support him seizing power in a coup because you will believe him and think you are restoring rather destroying democracy And when Coup-President Trump says that until they can be sure the alleged “fraud” has been eradicated, all elections are canceled until further notice (or gives Republican officials the power to arbitrarily and unilaterally declare Republican election winners, something Republicans are already trying to do) you will support that too because you’re a zealous sucker who doesn’t understand you’re destroying rather that supporting democracy The new GOP line: “I don’t support dictators I support democratically elected presidents who only lost because of a vast conspiracy that has zero evidence and nobody can prove and so they then had to seize power in a coup and then outlaw all elections until they can get this fraud thing sorted out!” LMAO THE BIG LIE IS TRUMP’S REICHSTAG FIRE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE