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    One of the reasons why we are at the breaking point, in America.



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    You can't make this shit up.

    First:

    Former New York Election Official Admits to Vote Fraud Scheme


    Jason Schofield, a Republican, pleaded guilty to using voters’ personal information illegally to obtain absentee ballots as a Rensselaer County election commissioner.
    Then...

    SIOUX CITY, Iowa — The wife of a northwestern Iowa county supervisor has been charged with 52 counts of voter fraud after she allegedly filled out and cast absentee ballots in her husband's unsuccessful race for a Republican nomination to run for Congress in 2020, federal prosecutors said.
    Meanwhile, how that brown nosing wanker Dinesh D'Souza labels it (Not to mention that cretin Musk who 'liked' it):

    Republicans lunacy.-untitled-jpg


    So then, in summary:

    1. Republicans are the primary source of attempted voter fraud.
    2. The system works, since they got caught.
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    Wyoming lawmakers propose ban on electric vehicle sales

    A group of GOP Wyoming state lawmakers want to end electric vehicle sales there by 2035, saying the move will help safeguard the oil and gas industries.

    The measure, introduced to the state legislature on Friday, was sponsored by six state legislators, who said in it that electric vehicles will hinder Wyoming’s ability to trade with other states. The bill states that citizens and industries would be encouraged not to purchase electric vehicles before the ban goes into effect.

    “The proliferation of electric vehicles at the expense of gas-powered vehicles will have deleterious impacts on Wyoming’s communities and will be detrimental to Wyoming’s economy and the ability for the country to efficiently engage in commerce,” the bill reads.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    Christ on a bike, the pillow bloke is running for the RNC chair.



    NEW YORK (AP) — By week’s end, the Republican National Committee is set to resolve a bitter leadership feud that has exposed perilous divisions within the institution charged with electing the next GOP president.
    Those inside the fight believe the days ahead of Friday’s secret ballot at a luxury seaside resort could get even uglier as rebel forces within former President Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement threaten to upend RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel’s reelection bid.
    The attacks have been led by McDaniel’s chief rival, Harmeet Dhillon, a Trump attorney who has accused the incumbent of religious bigotry, chronic misspending and privately claiming she can control the former president — allegations McDaniel denies. Also in the race is My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, a pro-Trump conspiracy theorist who secured enough support to qualify for the ballot.

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    I was reading this in the news.
    Aside that that he now claims that he is also Santos Clause

    He tweeted the following
    Republicans lunacy.-santoscause-jpg


    I wonder if the surprise announcement is anything like trump's

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    A group of GOP Wyoming state lawmakers want to end electric vehicle sales there by 2035, saying the move will help safeguard the oil and gas industries.
    You can't make this shit up . . .



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    Christ on a bike, the pillow bloke is running for the RNC chair.
    I hope he wins

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    I thought he was a total nutter? I suppose he'd be good raising funds from other nutters.

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    Republicans lunacy.-cb012423dapr-jpg

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    Republicans lunacy.-327051447_892471068845453_9201817529755467737_n-jpg

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    Stupid Scott Adams. What a fucking idiot falling for that.

    The comic strip Dilbert has been dropped from multiple US newspapers in response to racist comments by its creator, Scott Adams, who called Black Americans a “hate group” and urged white people to “get the hell away” from Black people in a YouTube video.
    Adams’s comments on 22 February came in response to a conservative organization’s poll which appeared to show that 26% of Black respondents said they disagreed with the statement “It’s OK to be white”. Another 21% said they were not sure.

    The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post each said on Saturday they were dropping Dilbert because of Adams’s comments.
    Gannett, the largest American newspaper publisher, said in statement that USA Today Network – which includes more than 300 local media outlets in 43 states – would immediately cease publishing the cartoon.
    “Recent discriminatory comments by the creator, Scott Adams, have influenced our decision to discontinue publishing his comic,” Gannett said in a statement. “While we respect and encourage free speech, his views do not align with our editorial or business values as an organization.”
    An executive at Cleveland’s the Plain Dealer newspaper, Chris Quinn, said the decision to drop the strip was not “difficult”.
    “We are not a home for those who espouse racism. We certainly do not want to provide them with financial support,” Quinn said. “Until we decide what to replace Dilbert with, you’ll likely see a gray box where it has been appearing.”
    The Anti-Defamation League called the phrase “It’s OK to be White” a “hate symbol” and noted that it was popularized in 2017 as a trolling campaign by members of the notorious discussion forum 4chan.
    “Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old Adams said on his YouTube rant. “Just get the fuck away".
    Dilbert cartoon dropped by US newspapers over creator’s racist comments | US news | The Guardian

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    Quote Originally Posted by Latinodancer View Post
    “Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” the 65-year-old Adams said on his YouTube rant. “Just get the fuck away".


    That's very sad. Maybe he's developing a mental illness, or early onset dementia ? People often say or do odd things at first without developing other overt signs. I knew an old guy who that happened to.
    He's a dumb fucking trumpanzee. Probably wrote that after a few bottles of wine.

    “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams made a fearful prediction about the 2020 presidential election on Twitter on Wednesday, telling his Republican followers that if Joe Biden is elected to the White House, “there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.”
    “Republicans will be hunted,” he wrote in a follow-up tweet, later adding, “Police will stand down.”
    The comic strip creator has been outspoken about his political views both on Twitter and on his blog, where he previously endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016 and accused the Hillary Clinton campaign of stoking “violence against police, violence against Trump supporters, and death threats to bloggers such as me.”

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    face up to 20 years in prison




    Ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder, former Ohio GOP leader Matt Borges found guilty

    A federal jury found both former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and ex-Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges guilty of racketeering conspiracy Thursday – a dramatic outcome in the biggest public corruption case in state history.

    The guilty verdict marks the end of Householder’s long political career in which he twice held the speaker’s gavel. He’ll be in the Ohio history books as the only speaker expelled from the Legislature and then convicted in a federal corruption case.

    Householder and Borges, who neither showed any emotion when the verdict was read aloud, face up to 20 years in prison. After a seven-week trial, jurors deliberated just nine hours over two days.

    The case made it to federal court because of its sweeping scope: $61 million in bribe money paid by FirstEnergy Corp. via dark money groups to help Householder seize political power and in turn pass and defend a $1.3 billion bailout law known as House Bill 6.

    “This isn’t typical political activity, and they know it,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Megan Painter said during closing statements at the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati. “Mr. Householder abused that (public) trust and Mr. Borges helped him do it.”

    After the verdict, U.S. Attorney Kenneth Parker said that the case shows that even powerful state leaders will be held accountable. "You cannot sell the public trust. It is not for sale."

    "This is a big win for all Ohioans," Parker said. He declined to answer questions about whether there may be more indictments.

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    ‘He needs to be held accountable’: CPAC chief Matt Schlapp’s accuser breaks silence in sexual misconduct case

    The man who accused Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) chief Matt Schlapp of “aggressively fondling” his genitals has stepped forward in a remarkable Washington Post interview.

    “I’m not backing away,” Carlton Huffman, a 39-year-old Republican operative from North Carolina, told The Post. “I’m not going to drop this. Matt Schlapp did what he did and he needs to be held accountable.”

    The Post reported that Huffman “provided texts, phone logs and videos” in support of his account, allegedly corroborating that he quickly shared the allegations with others.

    In one of those videos, dated the night of the alleged incident, Huffman holds his hand to his forehead, darting his eyes to and from the cameras — and seemingly pushing back emotion — as he records what he describes as one of his most “ashamed posts.”

    “Matt Schlapp, of the CPAC, grabbed my junk and fondled it at length, and I’m sitting there and saying, ‘What the hell is going on?'” Huffman says in the video. “That this person with a wife and kids, literally doing this to me.”

    _________




    Former Rep. Stephen Buyer (R-Ind.) was convicted of insider trading in New York on Friday after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged he used nonpublic information to buy stocks last year.

    U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement that Buyer took advantage of his “privileged position” as a corporate adviser to use his clients’ nonpublic information to commit insider trading on two occasions.

    “Buyer’s conviction underscores this Office’s commitment to detect and hold accountable those who break our insider trading laws just to make a buck,” Williams said.

    The SEC charged Buyer with insider trading in July as part of an investigation where the agency also brought charges against nine other individuals. The U.S. attorney’s office filed criminal charges against Buyer at the same time.

    Authorities said Buyer obtained $568,000 in shares of Sprint in 2018 after learning from nonpublic information that T-Mobile planned to merge with the company. T-Mobile was a client of his consulting firm, the Steve Buyer Group.

    The SEC said Buyer received more than $100,000 immediately after news spread of the merger.

    The agency also alleged that Buyer bought more than $1 million in Navigant Consulting shares before one of his clients announced that they planned to buy the firm. It said he sold his shares the day the sale was announced and received $227,000 in profits.

    The Lafayette Journal & Courier reported that Buyer was found guilty of four insider trading charges, two of which came from the Sprint merger and two from the Navigant Consulting one.

    Reuters reported that Buyer’s attorney argued that concrete evidence proving Buyer had inside information did not exist, and his client made the decisions to buy the stocks based on public information.

    Buyer served in Congress for nearly two decades from 1993 to 2011, leading the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee for two years.

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    Left wing, right wing, any wing. Doesn't matter. Jail 'em . . . it just feels better when they're from the right, the party of family values and general social decency
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    Faces up to 35 years in prison




    A former Florida lawmaker who sponsored a bill dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" law by critics has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief funds.

    Joseph Harding entered a guilty plea on Tuesday in federal court in the Northern District of Florida to one count of wire fraud, one count of money laundering and one count of making false statements, according to court records.

    Harding faces up to 35 years in prison, including a maximum of 20 years on the wire fraud charge. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for July 25 at the federal courthouse in Gainesville.

    The former Republican lawmaker shot to notoriety last year as one of the sponsors of a controversial Florida law that outlawed the discussion of sexuality and gender in public school classrooms from kindergarten through grade 3.

    The legislation became a blueprint for similar laws in more than a dozen other conservative states.

    "This bill is about protecting our kids, empowering parents and ensuring they have the information they need to do their God-given job of raising their child," Harding said when Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law last March.

    Critics from Democrats to LGBTQ groups took to calling it the "Don't Say Gay" law and condemned Republicans for chilling speech in schools.

    In December, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Harding, 35, who was accused of lying on his applications to the Economic Injury Disaster Loan program, which gave out loans to businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. He resigned from Florida's House of Representatives one day later.

    Harding fraudulently obtained more than $150,000 from the Small Business Administration, portions of which he transferred to a bank and used to make a credit card payment, prosecutors said.

    In his bio on the Florida House Republicans website, Harding is described as a "serial entrepreneur" who started several businesses related to "boarding and training horses, real estate development, home construction, and landscaping."

    He was first elected to public office when he won the state House seat in November 2020.

    Harding fraudulently obtained $150,000 in Covid relief funds from the Small Business Administration and subsequently made three transfers each involving more than $10,000 to his joint bank account, to pay his credit card, and into a bank account linked to a business entity, court documents show.

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    51 months in prison

    Bannon allies sentenced to prison in 'We Build the Wall' scheme

    "We Build the Wall" campaign fundraisers Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their role in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors and stealing the proceeds, the Department of Justice said.

    Kolfage was sentenced to 51 months in prison, just over four years, and Badolato was sentenced to three years in prison. Kolfage and Badolato both pleaded guilty in April last year to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the donor scheme. The crime carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

    The two were also handed three years of supervised release. Kolfage, 41, was ordered to forfeit over $17.8 million and pay over $2 million in restitution. Badolato, 58, must forfeit over $1.4 million and pay the same amount in restitution.

    U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres also ordered forfeiture of over $1.3 million in funds held by "We Build the Wall" and property in New Mexico, where the group had started constructing part of a wall, according to the DOJ press release.

    "The fraud perpetrated by Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Badolato went well beyond defrauding individual donors," Torres said in the release, mentioning that the case would have a "chilling effect" on political donations. "They hurt us all," Torres said.

    Kolfage and Badolato worked with Steve Bannon, former chief White House strategist in the Trump administration, to pull together a crowdfunded effort to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after Donald Trump made building a wall a signature part of his 2016 campaign and subsequent presidency.

    “Mr. Kolfage respects the Court and its determination but we disagree that 51 months’ was appropriate for this American hero,” Kolfage’s lawyers said in a statement to NBC News, referring to their client's service as a veteran and triple amputee. “We are disappointed that the Court did not vary substantially based not only on Brian’s contrition and extraordinary service to our country, but also based [on the Bureau of Prisons'] abysmal track record for providing the necessary medical care to inmates.”

    Badolato’s lawyer did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.

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    This entire episode with (twitter accounts) Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom has been hilarious.




    Bad moos for Devin Nunes’ defamation lawsuit: Judge finds it ‘substantially, objectively true’ that family farm ‘knowingly’ hired undocumented immigrants

    The defamation lawsuit filed by Republican congressman-turned-Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes and his family against journalist Ryan Lizza and Hearst Magazines over a 2018 Esquire article fell flat this week, as a judge found it “substantially, objectively true” that the family’s farm in Iowa “knowingly” employed undocumented immigrants.

    The former California congressman, who has waged numerous unsuccessful (so far) lawsuits over the years — perhaps most infamously against the Twitter accounts Devin Nunes’ Cow and Devin Nunes’ Mom — first filed suit against Lizza and Hearst in September 2019. The complaint alleged that Politico’s Lizza, then an independent contractor reporting for Esquire, defamed the congressman with actual malice and conspired to publish the “hit piece” headlined “Devin Nunes’s Family Farm is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret.”

    A second defamation lawsuit filed on behalf of the dairy farm itself, NuStar Farms, and Anthony Nunes Jr. and Anthony Nunes III, Devin Nunes’ father and brother, was filed on Jan. 16, 2020. The cases were consolidated in February 2022.

    The plaintiffs attempted to show that it was defamatory of Lizza to write — and for Esquire to publish — that the Nunes family, which “owned and operated a dairy farm in Tulare, California for more than a century,” was hiding from the public that the farm was now located in Iowa, not California. The article also said that the family dairy “knowingly” employed undocumented immigrants, despite then-President Donald Trump’s hardline stance on illegal immigration and the then-GOP congressman’s support for Trump and his immigration policies.


    https://twitter.com/devincow/

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    51 months in prison

    Bannon allies sentenced to prison in 'We Build the Wall' scheme

    "We Build the Wall" campaign fundraisers Brian Kolfage and Andrew Badolato were sentenced to prison on Wednesday for their role in defrauding hundreds of thousands of donors and stealing the proceeds, the Department of Justice said.

    Kolfage was sentenced to 51 months in prison, just over four years, and Badolato was sentenced to three years in prison. Kolfage and Badolato both pleaded guilty in April last year to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the donor scheme. The crime carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

    The two were also handed three years of supervised release. Kolfage, 41, was ordered to forfeit over $17.8 million and pay over $2 million in restitution. Badolato, 58, must forfeit over $1.4 million and pay the same amount in restitution.

    U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres also ordered forfeiture of over $1.3 million in funds held by "We Build the Wall" and property in New Mexico, where the group had started constructing part of a wall, according to the DOJ press release.

    "The fraud perpetrated by Mr. Kolfage and Mr. Badolato went well beyond defrauding individual donors," Torres said in the release, mentioning that the case would have a "chilling effect" on political donations. "They hurt us all," Torres said.

    Kolfage and Badolato worked with Steve Bannon, former chief White House strategist in the Trump administration, to pull together a crowdfunded effort to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border after Donald Trump made building a wall a signature part of his 2016 campaign and subsequent presidency.

    “Mr. Kolfage respects the Court and its determination but we disagree that 51 months’ was appropriate for this American hero,” Kolfage’s lawyers said in a statement to NBC News, referring to their client's service as a veteran and triple amputee. “We are disappointed that the Court did not vary substantially based not only on Brian’s contrition and extraordinary service to our country, but also based [on the Bureau of Prisons'] abysmal track record for providing the necessary medical care to inmates.”

    Badolato’s lawyer did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.
    Hey spamdreth, this is republican corruption not republican lunacy.

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    ^it's both dummy

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    No it's not dumbass.
    This is republican lunacy.


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    yes it is dummy

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    yes it is dummy
    FUCK OFF SPAMDRETH. iT'S JUST PLAIN OLD FASHION GRIFTING.

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    it's lunacy. Dummy

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    it's lunacy. Dummy
    I’ll tell you what lunacy is, cutting and pasting shit on nearly every topic, and actually thinking posters are actually reading said shit.

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