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February 27, 2021
What happens at CPAC stays at CPAC!
https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1365773383032594450
February 27, 2021
Today in "Not A Cult": Pro Trump rap.
Yes this is real. Yes, there are a whole slew of white conservatives attempting to rap. There is an entire genre of this. I wish I was making this up.
https://twitter.com/MollyJongFast/status/1365729100510486532
February 27, 2021
Vaccine deniers are a strange and scary bunch. And yeah just like Titus I hate being locked down.
Armageddon Update: Vaccine Nation
Vaccine deniers are a strange and scary bunch. And yeah just like Titus I hate being locked down.
February 26, 2021
He kind of looks like one of those fire and brimstone pastors too.
Ted Cruz Goes Full Fire & Brimstone
https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1365345139904843784He kind of looks like one of those fire and brimstone pastors too.
February 25, 2021
Meanwhile, on Tucker Carlson: "Derp... what's Q Anon? We searched and couldn't find it!"
QAnon-Promoting 2020 Congressional Candidate Angela Stanton King Scheduled to Speak at CPAC 2021
Angela Stanton King, a promoter of QAnon conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ bigotry, is scheduled to speak at the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference on a Sunday afternoon panel shortly before former President Donald Trump speaks. Stanton King spoke at a Stop the Steal rally in Washington, D.C. the night before the Capitol insurrection, where she praised Trump for standing up to demons and told the crowd Trump could still win because God makes miraculous things happen.
Stanton King is scheduled to be on a panel with other new voices. One of them, Young Pharaoh, was reportedly disinvited from CPAC on Monday after Media Matters reported on anti-Semitic statements he has made.
Stanton King was pardoned last March by Trump over a conviction related to her involvement with a car-theft ring. She ran for Congress later that year, declaring in July, God sent me. She also tweeted that month that she would be Kanye Wests running mate in 2024. Last August, she took a bigoted swipe at Kamala Harris husband, family, and heritage.
In the November general election, running as the GOP nominee, Stanton King drew about 15 percent in the Georgia congressional district that was represented by the late civil rights icon John Lewis. (When Lewis died during she summer, she tweeted, Pass the torch, dont die with it in your hand.)
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/qanon-promoting-2020-congressional-candidate-angela-stanton-king-scheduled-to-speak-at-cpac-2021/
Stanton King is scheduled to be on a panel with other new voices. One of them, Young Pharaoh, was reportedly disinvited from CPAC on Monday after Media Matters reported on anti-Semitic statements he has made.
Stanton King was pardoned last March by Trump over a conviction related to her involvement with a car-theft ring. She ran for Congress later that year, declaring in July, God sent me. She also tweeted that month that she would be Kanye Wests running mate in 2024. Last August, she took a bigoted swipe at Kamala Harris husband, family, and heritage.
In the November general election, running as the GOP nominee, Stanton King drew about 15 percent in the Georgia congressional district that was represented by the late civil rights icon John Lewis. (When Lewis died during she summer, she tweeted, Pass the torch, dont die with it in your hand.)
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/qanon-promoting-2020-congressional-candidate-angela-stanton-king-scheduled-to-speak-at-cpac-2021/
Meanwhile, on Tucker Carlson: "Derp... what's Q Anon? We searched and couldn't find it!"
February 23, 2021
Louis Gohmert On Climate Change in 2015 - It's Obama's Fault!!!
Found this article while doing some research and I feel like it was worth reposting given the nature of the Texas climate change disaster and how it's a preview of far worse things to come. File this one under "things that did not age well"!
Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R) on Wednesday urged Pope Francis to consider opposing viewpoints from people who denied global warming instead of listening to President Barack Obama and the mainstream media.
During an interview with C-SPANs Washington Journal, host Greta Brawner asked the Tea Party-backed Republican to weigh in on the popes warning that God would judge those who did not act on climate change.
The trouble is that he has been persuaded that climate change is something that is dramatically affecting the planet right now, hes bought in to all this, Gohmert explained. We have had popes that made enormous mistakes that were influenced by the world around them.
But if hell just really objectively look at the data and see that the world is really not warming, he continued. Climate change, I dont see it so much as a problem. Where I live in east Texas, we have climate change, I totally believe that, I know that to be a fact. In fact, we have it four times a year. When Brawner pressed Gohmert about who had persuaded the pope, the congressman pointed to the president and the media.
more
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louie-gohmert-the-pope-is-treating-climate-change-deniers-like-galileo-and-its-obamas-fault/
During an interview with C-SPANs Washington Journal, host Greta Brawner asked the Tea Party-backed Republican to weigh in on the popes warning that God would judge those who did not act on climate change.
The trouble is that he has been persuaded that climate change is something that is dramatically affecting the planet right now, hes bought in to all this, Gohmert explained. We have had popes that made enormous mistakes that were influenced by the world around them.
But if hell just really objectively look at the data and see that the world is really not warming, he continued. Climate change, I dont see it so much as a problem. Where I live in east Texas, we have climate change, I totally believe that, I know that to be a fact. In fact, we have it four times a year. When Brawner pressed Gohmert about who had persuaded the pope, the congressman pointed to the president and the media.
more
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/louie-gohmert-the-pope-is-treating-climate-change-deniers-like-galileo-and-its-obamas-fault/
February 23, 2021
I'm off to go buy a bottle of gin and a box of raisins.
This 105-Year-Old Beat Covid. She Credits Gin-Soaked Raisins.
Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer.
Prayer. Prayer. Prayer, she offers. One step at a time. No junk food.
But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning for most of her life.
Fill a jar, she explained. Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.
Her children and grandchildren recall the ritual as just one of Ms. DeClercks endearing lifelong habits, like drinking aloe juice straight from the container and brushing her teeth with baking soda. (That worked, too: She did not have a cavity until she was 99, relatives said.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/nyregion/new-jersey-lucia-declerck-covid.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
Prayer. Prayer. Prayer, she offers. One step at a time. No junk food.
But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning for most of her life.
Fill a jar, she explained. Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.
Her children and grandchildren recall the ritual as just one of Ms. DeClercks endearing lifelong habits, like drinking aloe juice straight from the container and brushing her teeth with baking soda. (That worked, too: She did not have a cavity until she was 99, relatives said.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/nyregion/new-jersey-lucia-declerck-covid.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
I'm off to go buy a bottle of gin and a box of raisins.
February 22, 2021
Gee I wonder why he turned them down?
Hey Mike, sorry about trying to kill you, would you mind speaking?
https://twitter.com/TeaPainUSA/status/1363629935475236864Gee I wonder why he turned them down?
February 20, 2021
Also Tucker Carlson: "Could you define white supremacists?"
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-warns-viewers-they-could-be-targets-war-white-supremacists
Holy crap they're not even trying to hide it anymore!
Tucker Carlson guest: Teaching diversity curriculum in schools will "destroy any possibility of fur
It's civilizational crushing, spirit killing, and the long-term effect is to try and get the elites in this country to discard any remaining shred of meritocracy.
The first obligation of education, Tucker, is to be true. The Black Lives Matter narrative is based on lies. It is a lie that racism defines the shape of American society today.
Far more complex factors than racism lie behind socio-economic and racial disparities -- factors like family breakdown, culture, attitudes towards academic achievement, and criminal involvement. Far from being racist, every American mainstream institution today gives preferences to Blacks and Hispanics in hiring.
So, Americans should reject the Black Lives Matter narrative and they should sure reject it in education where it is going to divide this country further and destroy any possibility of further civilizational advance.
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-guest-teaching-diversity-curriculum-schools-will-destroy-any
The first obligation of education, Tucker, is to be true. The Black Lives Matter narrative is based on lies. It is a lie that racism defines the shape of American society today.
Far more complex factors than racism lie behind socio-economic and racial disparities -- factors like family breakdown, culture, attitudes towards academic achievement, and criminal involvement. Far from being racist, every American mainstream institution today gives preferences to Blacks and Hispanics in hiring.
So, Americans should reject the Black Lives Matter narrative and they should sure reject it in education where it is going to divide this country further and destroy any possibility of further civilizational advance.
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-guest-teaching-diversity-curriculum-schools-will-destroy-any
Also Tucker Carlson: "Could you define white supremacists?"
https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson-warns-viewers-they-could-be-targets-war-white-supremacists
Holy crap they're not even trying to hide it anymore!
February 18, 2021
Dolly Parton is a national treasure!
Dolly Parton Wants TN To Not Consider A Statue Of Her At Capitol Grounds
https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1362431803391377409Dolly Parton is a national treasure!
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