Our Constitutional Republic faces a clear and present danger more deadly than that of the Civil War. The danger is the Republican Party, a "political party" that has sold out to white supremacy, autocracy, misogyny, and hatred of everything our Nation stands for. Republicans dismiss any sense of a common American narrative. The "Republican Party" is an outlier in our history – ideologically extreme; contemptuous of social and economic policies that have sustained us for a century; unwilling to compromise; dismissive of evidence, fact, and science; dismissive of the legitimacy of any viewpoint except their own. America needs to face the simple, frightening fact that the Republican Party is a clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.
This photo was made of Trump as he exited the NYC courtroom where heard the charges against him. His face tells us a lot.
This is the face of a loser who now knows he is a loser.
Why do Republicans talk about “grooming” children? Because they are experts at it.
On Friday, March 31, Anton “Tony” Lazzaro was found guilty by a federal jury of “orchestrating a sex trafficking conspiracy in which he trafficked multiple minor girls.” Assistant United States Attorneys Melinda Williams, Laura Provinzino, and Emily Polachek released a statement on the verdict, saying, “today’s guilty verdict recognizes the bravery of the five young victims who were trafficked by Lazzaro. We are humbled by their courage and inspired by their journeys to regain their power.”
The government only needed a 10-day trial to make the case against the now-32-year-old Lazzaro, using his much younger associate Gisela Castro Medina as their star witness. Lazzaro’s defense—that he wasn’t preying on “broken” girls, but instead was trying to “fix” them—doesn’t seem to have been effective. The former big-time Minnesota Republican strategist was arrested in 2021 following an investigation and raid that turned up a mountain of evidence showing that, with help from then-19-year-old Castro Medina, Lazzaro had plied young girls with gifts and money in exchange for sex.
Lazzaro was connected to many elected Republicans in Minnesota, including then-Minnesota state Republican Party Chairwoman Jennifer Carnahan. Carnahan, who was already facing pressure for a terrible workplace culture, resigned shortly after Lazzaro’s arrest.
Republicans in the Tennessee legislature have expelled three Democratic members because of their support for pro-gun-control protestors.
Notice the three Democrats who were expelled were BLACK and a WOMAN. CORRECTION: ONLY THE TWO BLACK MEN WERE EXPELLED, THE WHITE WOMAN WAS NOT EXPELLED. IN THIS VIDEO CLIP, SHE EXPLAINS WHY SHE WAS NOT EXPELLED.
Rep. Gloria Johnson on why she survived while two of her colleagues were expelled from the Tennessee House: "Well, I think it's pretty clear. I'm a 60-year-old white woman and they are two young Black men." pic.twitter.com/6dNbW9dOHz
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 7, 2023
In 1951, my father’s business moved us from SW Mississippi to Knoxville TN where my parents lived until they left us in 2005 and 2007. I spent my summers between 1951 and 1962 in rural SW Mississippi; college in Alabama, where I learned to read. My younger brother and I left TN — and the South — as soon as we could and have never looked back.
Tennessee has four large cities: Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, and Memphis. These cities have a lot of Democrats and elect the few Democrats in the state legislature. The smaller cities of Kingsport, Bristol, Johnson City, Cleveland, and Jackson are nothing but overgrown county seats. Recent gerrymandering has all but wiped out Democrats in the state legislature.
Outside the four big cities Tennessee is dumbass, shit-for-brains, redneck, goober muthafukahs who marry their cousins and are proud of their ignorance. And that’s the smart ones.
Remember — Pulaski TN is the home of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the KKK, and, Dayton TN is home of the Scopes Monkey Trial where a public school teacher was put on trial for teach evolution (and don’t be surprised if that sorry affair repeats itself given Republican attacks on public schools).
Having grown up in rural MS and East TN I am fully acquainted with dumbass, shit-for-brains, redneck, goober muthafukahs who marry their cousins and are proud of their ignorance. I have an earned PhD in WhiteTrashOlogy.
UPDATE
Students swarm the Tennessee legislature chanting “FUCK YOU FASCISTS!”
Wow. Students are standing outside the Tennessee House right now and chanting, “Fuck you fascists.” Young people are absolutely pissed off & we are about to give Republicans hell like they’ve never seenZ We aren’t forgetting this. pic.twitter.com/lGErsmNRKv
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) April 6, 2023
I had this thought last night while watching the MSNBC Special Report. Laurence O’Donnell described walking through the park across from the Court and being followed by a guy who was yelling questions at him about his vagina. O’Donnell was very deadpan about it and had the panel in hysterics. It struck me that Trump, if he was watching this, would be furious.
Today, I read that Trump is calling for the defunding of the FBI and the DOJ because they’re after him.
MTG gets chased out of the park. Lindsey begs for the peoples’ last dollar.
And on and on.
These people, and the Republican Party in general, aren’t rational. They can’t be reasoned with. They must be ridiculed. They must be laughed at.
Trump hates to be made fun of. He needs to become a joke.
Senator Lindsey Graham has turned himself into a Trump Min-Me with his bleached combover and spray-on tan.
And, NO, this is not Photoshopped.
This is the audience at Mar-A-Largo Tuesday night, April 4, to hear Trump’s speech after his indictment in NYC.
Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) is facing significant blowback following her Tuesday announcement that she is asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cover all of the cleanup costs from last Friday’s series of tornados that killed nearly three dozen people and caused extensive damage throughout the Bear State.
“I’ve been across our state since Friday, surveying damage, meeting with survivors, and discussing recovery efforts with local leaders, emergency personnel, and volunteers. It’s clear that the cost to clean up the damage those storms created will be substantial,” Sanders said in a statement as reported by local ABC News affiliate KATV. “The federal government is currently covering 75 percent of all costs incurred during our recovery process, but that arrangement must go further to help Arkansans in need. Today, I’m asking the federal government to cover 100 percent of all our recovery expenses during the first 30 days after the storm.”
The problem is that Sanders has repeatedly railed against federal involvement in state and local issues. During her campaign, for example, Sanders proclaimed that Arkansas residents have the “right to be free of socialism and tyranny.” Then, in January, she tweeted that “as long as I am your governor, the meddling hand of big government creeping down from Washington DC will be stopped cold at the Mississippi River.”
WTF??? Why not simply as God for the money?
We really should not be too hard on Governor Sarah — after all, she’s a graduate of that center of academic excellence, Ouachita Baptist College.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called for pro-Trump mobs to swarm New York to protest Trump’s arrest, arraignment, and indictment. It did not go well for her.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took time away from fundraising by saying offensive and objectively false things during House Committee meetings to go and fundraise off of Donald Trump’s impending arraignment in New York City. In Greene’s defense, she is also auditioning to get the nod as Trump’s inevitable presidential running mate.
However, the rich kid turned CrossFit troll is barely accepted within her own political party, let alone anywhere outside of her blood-red living room. On Tuesday, Greene decided she would go down to MAGA-protest/fundraise in lower Manhattan. Surprise, the overwhelming majority of protesters in lower Manhattan on Tuesday were not there in support of historic New York City slumlord Donald Trump. The responses from New Yorkers to carpetbagger Greene were exemplary.
This is what happened — she arrived, got out of her SUV, spent less than five minutes and left.
LOL… Marjorie Taylor Greene gives up her protest of the #TrumpArraignment after only five minutes.
The warm New York City welcome for her (complete with whistles) was too mush for this snowflake to handle.
It’s #Arrestmas in New York City!pic.twitter.com/uy8wA38RZ2— BigBlueWaveUSA® 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇦 (@BigBlueWaveUSA) April 4, 2023
A subplot to this video: Greene is being interviewed by RSBN’s Brian Glenn… who she is dating. Goddam, this woman is a two-bagger. *
Poor George Santos (if that’s his name) showed up in NYC to protest, could not find the courthouse, was about to cry.
Poor George Santos is about to cry 🤣 pic.twitter.com/s4jScLRemU
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) April 4, 2023
Donald Trump is in court for his arraignment, where he learned about the charges against him for the first time. He did not deliver remarks or answer questions from a reporter ahead of the proceeding. Here's the latest news: https://t.co/XFdadgp9vY pic.twitter.com/QQkfL3BKTM
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 4, 2023
Trump looks like a whipped dog . . . he is pissed off, tired, lost, has never been here before. Fuck him. His lifetime of crime has caught up with him. And at least three more indictments are coming down: (1) Georgia election interference; (2) Jan 6 coup attempt; (3) theft of classified documents.
