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-Short Attention Span Theater-
NASCAR walks back approval of Brandon Brown's 'Let's go Brandon' coin sponsorship
[THEPOSTMILLENNIAL] Brandon Brown, the unintentional namesake of popular anti-Biden chant "Let's Go Brandon" will not be able to sport a sponsorship from LGBcoin afterall.

According to Fox News, the partnership with the cryptocurrency has been pulled back from the announced 33 races that Brown was intended to display the sponsorship.

Fox Business reports that Brown's spokesperson Maxwell Marcucci said that NASCAR "pulled back its approval of the sponsorship deal on Dec. 30, after the partnership with LGBcoin was announced."

"After the announcement went live on Thursday morning, NASCAR acknowledged to us late that afternoon that we had received approval but that they now needed to discuss this at a higher level," Marcucci said.

A NASCAR spokesperson went so far as to say that the driver jumped the gun by announcing the partnership between himself and the meme coin. This, however, has been disputed by Marcucci.
Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  1) Hit them with a lawsuit.

2) NASCAR will lose even more fans, including this one. It's getting to the point I'll skip the major races (Daytona 500, Talladega & the two road course races at Sonoma & Watkins Glen) and complete the ban.
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2022 1:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I quit NASCAR when they required restrictor plates.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/04/2022 10:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Peter Drucker said an organization can have one mission. As soon as it has two, it will fail at both. The C suite mania with wokeness portends lots of failure ahead.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 10:57 Comments || Top||

#4  #3 Professional sports seems intent on running off 50% of its viewership. The little helmet logos at the back of the NFL helmets with slogans like "Fight Hate" are not-so-subtle virtue signaling that I despise, just like the sloganing of the NBA basketball courts.
Posted by: Crusader || 01/04/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||

#5  By and large LGB opponents are also big anti-gerbil-worming proponents, so NASCAR is alienating its fans in order to appease those who already hate it. Not a winning strategy.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/04/2022 11:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Just as COVID failed to wipe out approximately 1/3 of the human race, as was intended, the "reporter in a hijab at a NASCAR race" did not give the head office the excuse they wanted to ban all the crackers and "islamophobes," so this is plan B.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 11:26 Comments || Top||


State Department mocked for promoting Antony Blinken's Spotify playlist - with tracks from Olivia Rodrigo and Taylor Swift - with tensions brewing with Russia and after the botched Afghanistan withdrawal
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tony's just Gaga about Taylor's latest look -- he's been modeling it for State Dept colleagues at their Friday Gaiety shindigs
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/04/2022 4:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Hey JAAAAAAAANNN!

Party in the Hey Blinken bedroom!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/04/2022 15:51 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Pennsylvania Gov. candidate Lou Barletta shares photos of 'secret' Biden administration flights full of migrants landing at his local airport
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/04/2022 13:42 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Human Trafficking

#1  Well, PeeAye, you went blue in 2020. Enjoy your new Peelousy MS-13 "divine spark" neighbors. Good and hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 16:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Amazing these are the only photos of Biden smuggling illegals. Democrats are pretty good at it.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 01/04/2022 16:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Human Trafficking. That is why they do this at night. I wonder what you would find if you follow a few of the 'migrants' to their ultimate destination.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/04/2022 16:47 Comments || Top||

#4  And what will he do beyond that?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 01/04/2022 21:35 Comments || Top||


Great White North
US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns
[THEGUARDIAN] The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor has warned, urging his country to protect itself against the "collapse of American democracy".

"We mustn’t dismiss these possibilities just because they seem ludicrous or too horrible to imagine," Thomas Homer-Dixon, founding director of the Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University in British Columbia, wrote in the Globe and Mail.

"In 2014, the suggestion that Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
would become president would also have struck nearly everyone as absurd. But today we live in a world where the absurd regularly becomes real and the horrible commonplace."

Homer-Dixon’s message was blunt: "By 2025, American democracy could collapse, causing extreme domestic political instability, including widespread civil violence. By 2030, if not sooner, the country could be governed by a rightwing dictatorship."

The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Trump, he warned, "will have only two objectives, vindication and vengeance" of the lie that his 2020 defeat by Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S., who gives the term geriatric a bad name. He blames Afghans for losing Afghanistan....
was the result of electoral fraud.

A "scholar of violent mostly peaceful conflict" for more than four decades, Homer-Dixon said Canada must take heed of the "unfolding crisis".

Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [17 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Thomas Homer-Dixon

Hyphenated last name - the surest sign of a self-important douchebag.
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2022 0:43 Comments || Top||

#2  So? Canada could be under a dictator after the next election.
Posted by: magpie || 01/04/2022 0:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember when someone wrote 'Trump 2016' on a sidewalk in chalk and people had massive trauma over it?
This guy (and most of CNN and MSNBC) never moved on from that.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 01/04/2022 0:55 Comments || Top||

#4  "... and then there's the downside..."
Posted by: badanov || 01/04/2022 0:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Could. Yeah, it *could* happen. And monkeys could fly out my butt. Both are equally probable.

It's kinda cute how they scare themselves with these fairy tales. Hey, let's all go out and discretely chalk "Trump 2024" on sidewalks and buildings everywhere. The sound of exploding heads will be glorious.

Posted by: SteveS || 01/04/2022 1:04 Comments || Top||

#6  The author cited eventualities centered on a Trump return to the White House in 2024, possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

No need to wait until 2030, it's happening as we speak.

Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2022 1:05 Comments || Top||

#7  ...possibly including Republican-held state legislatures refusing to accept a Democratic win.

Al Gore, 2000
John Forbes Kerry, 2004
Hillary Clinton, 2016
Stacey Abrams, 2018

Shall I go on about Democrat efforts at projection?
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2022 1:15 Comments || Top||

#8  The best fisking ever - https://monsterhunternation.com/2021/11/23/do-i-unfairly-paint-the-left-with-a-broad-brush/
Posted by: newc || 01/04/2022 2:55 Comments || Top||

#9  The left is vaguely following a modified nazi playbook of othering non-vaccinated and setting up camps, and yet the right is the danger. Got it, the guy is an idiot.
Posted by: ruprecht || 01/04/2022 10:35 Comments || Top||

#10  More fact-free hysteria. As if we don't have enough of that already.
Posted by: Tom || 01/04/2022 11:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Canada is already under a dictatorship. A comic opera but still just as dangerous
Posted by: Percy Flotle3938 || 01/04/2022 11:43 Comments || Top||

#12  Perhaps a consummation devoutly to be wished...?
The triumvirate of Big Tech Billionaires, Unions and Minority/Gay/Academics, and the MSM has given us a script-reading Presidential façade for a emergent Marxist dictatorship now.
They have overplayed their hand in the rush to loot and finish the Obama 3.0 cultural transformation by using the covid truncheon far too long.
People are awakening to an adversary government in all but name, but the corruption of the electoral system and the massive, deep infestation of the government itself has caused a gigantic dumpster fire across every principal agency. Add to it massive debt, inflation, and the importation of millions more third world indigents whose only wish is a handout and lifetime subsidy, and the toxic sludge is overwhelming.
Some days I actually get worried that the last best hope of mankind, America, will end before I do! Thank God I'm not a pessimist by nature...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/04/2022 12:34 Comments || Top||

#13  We would be better off than we are now.
Posted by: Chris || 01/04/2022 13:17 Comments || Top||

#14  The Canadian assumes we have a fair election.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 01/04/2022 14:52 Comments || Top||

#15  Well....the most compelling argument comes from corporate focus groups filtered by HR sexual deviants.

It makes a person wonder just how far off the mark the movie Don't Look Up really is.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/04/2022 15:02 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Democratic Rep Says Majorie Taylor Greene's Ban From Twitter is 'Too Little,' 'Too Late'
[TOWNHALL] Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal (WA) said on Sunday that Twitter’s permanent ban on Republican Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene (GA) is "a little too late" and that it’s a good thing her voice was taken "out of the mix." As Landon covered, Greene’s personal Twitter account was permanently suspended from Twitter on Sunday over her "repeated violations" of the platform’s COVID-19 misinformation policy.

"We permanently suspended the account you referenced (@mtgreenee) for repeated violations of our COVID-19 misinformation policy. We’ve been clear that, per our strike system for this policy, we will permanently suspend accounts for repeated violations of the policy," a Twitter spokesperson said in a statement.

As Landon mentioned in his report, Greene posted a Twitter thread on Saturday about life before and after the Wuhan coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic where she claimed that there are "extremely high amounts of covid vaccine deaths." Greene’s office told the Washington Examiner that the thread caused her suspension from Twitter, but the platform did not confirm whether or not this was the case.

Following her suspension from the platform, Greene published a statement on Telegram where she said that "Twitter is an enemy to America and can’t handle the truth" and "I’ll show America we don’t need them and it’s time to defeat our enemies."

"The Ageless and Downright Brilliant Comrade Maxine Impeach 45! Waters
...U.S. Representative for California's 43rd congressional district, serving since 1991, a total of 30.09308 years. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the most senior of the twelve black women currently serving in the United States Congress, and a member and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus. Before becoming a member of Congress she served in the California Assembly, to which she was first elected back when Disco was in flower, in 1976, which would make it 45.09103 years. She has been a politician for virtually all her adult life. If she was a little brighter she'd be a Communist...
can go to the streets and threaten violence on Twitter, Kamala and Ilhan can bail out Black Lives Matter bully boyz on Twitter, CNN
...the organization formerly known as the Cable News Network. Now who knows what it might stand for...
and the rest of the Democrat Propaganda Media can spread Russia collusion lies, and just yesterday the Chief front man for terrorist IRGC can tweet mourning Soleimani, but I get suspended for tweeting VAERS statistics," Greene said in the statement.



Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Democrats do love censorship of other than their own BS
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 01/04/2022 10:58 Comments || Top||


Secret Commandos with Shoot-to-Kill Authority Were at the Capitol
Selected paragraphs:
[Newsweek] On Sunday, January 3, the heads of a half-dozen elite government special operations teams met in Quantico, Virginia, to go over potential threats, contingencies, and plans for the upcoming Joint Session of Congress. The meeting, and the subsequent deployment of these shadowy commandos on January 6, has never before been revealed.

Right after the New Year, Jeffrey A. Rosen, the acting Attorney General on January 6, approved implementation of long-standing contingency plans dealing with the most extreme possibilities: an attack on President Donald Trump or Vice President Mike Pence, a terrorist attack involving a weapon of mass destruction, and a declaration of measures to implement continuity of government, requiring protection and movement of presidential successors.

Rosen made a unilateral decision to take the preparatory steps to deploy Justice Department and so-called "national" forces. There was no formal request from the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, or the Metropolitan Police Department—in fact, no external request from any agency. The leadership in Justice and the FBI anticipated the worst and decided to act independently, the special operations forces lurking behind the scenes.

"I believe that DOJ [Department of Justice] reasonably prepared for contingencies ahead of January 6, understanding that there was considerable uncertainty as to how many people would arrive, who those people would be, and precisely what purposes they would pursue," Rosen later told Congress. He stressed that his department "no frontline role with respect to crowd control," that they were focused on "high-risk" operations.

The contingency units meeting on January 3 included the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team, the FBI's national "Render Safe" team, an FBI SWAT team from the Baltimore Field Office, Special Response Teams from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the U.S. Marshals Service Special Operations Group.

Most of the literature mistakenly says that the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)—including, famously, the units formerly known as Delta Force and SEAL Team 6—is the primary national mission force. Although overseas, the National Mission Force often operates as a Joint Special Operations Task Force (with FBI augmentation), made up of dedicated teams assigned to JSOC, inside the United States, the FBI is in charge.

A tactical team of the Hostage Rescue Team was one of the first external federal agencies to actually enter the Capitol after protestors breached the building. In addition to augmentation of emergency security assets, one team coordinated with the U.S. Capitol Police and Secret Service to provide additional safeguarding of Vice President Pence, who had been moved to the underground parking structure beneath the Capitol, from where he was supposed to evacuate. But Pence refused to leave the building and stayed underground instead.

The presence of these extraordinary forces under the control of the Attorney General—and mostly operating under contingency plans that Congress and the U.S. Capitol Police were not privy to—added an additional layer of highly armed responders. The role that the military played in this highly classified operation is still unknown, though FBI sources tell Newsweek that military operators seconded to the FBI, and those on alert as part of the National Mission Force, were present in the metropolitan area. The lingering question is: What was it that the Justice Department saw that provoked it to see January 6 as an extraordinary event, something that the other agencies evidently missed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More garbage from the FBI. This article is propaganda.
Posted by: Xyz || 01/04/2022 3:12 Comments || Top||

#2  /\ Yes, very likely "propaganda" or possibly cover for action. With the likelihood of future investigations and the potential release of videos, deniability will become essential.

Wasn't us, we're 'Special Agent Commandos.' Besides, everyone was wearing camo, must have been one of those evil DoD barrel chested freedom fighters from Fort Bragg.

With Capitol police officer Lt. Michael Byrd (dressed in pimp mufti vs camo) on site, "Secret Commandos" appear to have been more or less redundant.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/04/2022 4:54 Comments || Top||

#3  The old Lee Harvey Oswald unit.
Posted by: Airandee || 01/04/2022 6:04 Comments || Top||

#4  Someone smells leaks and the need to provide official fig-leafs to assets that need to be kept friendly, hidden and silent in the coming months of theater about J6 as they fumble towards replaying the idea that the right-wing coup plotters are the lurking danger behind a Republican election victory.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/04/2022 12:46 Comments || Top||

#5  there were dudes there with shades and manginas and manneries dressed like the playboy bunnies from apocalypse now with rubber 6 shooter dildos in their hands filled with tarter sauce! whatz with the green chunky stuff woke communion wine ?
Posted by: Greng Black3494 || 01/04/2022 14:01 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Cut-rate Burroughs got into the PeePee Lopez again...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 14:02 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Here Comes The Stacey Abrams Rebrand
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say it won't include a stint with Weight Watchers.
[WFB, via Insty] - Stacey Abrams was repeatedly praised as a "bold progressive" with an "unapologetically left" agenda during her failed gubernatorial campaign in 2018. Now that she's running again in 2022, Abrams and her media allies would like to revise the record by insisting that she is in fact a pragmatic moderate.
Us normal folk call this 'rewriting history'.
"A helium blimp, not hydrogen! Stable!"
Astead Herndon's most recent piece in the New York Times suggests the Stacey Abrams rebranding effort is well underway. Herndon, author of articles such as "Menace Enters the Republican Mainstream," conducted his own "review" of Abrams's political ideology and found "a leader who has carefully calibrated her positions, making a point to avoid drifting into one Democratic lane or another."
That's because she's taking up all of the lanes.
The article includes a revealing quote from Democratic megadonor Steve Phillips about why white progressives, who comprise the vast majority of party activists and professional journalists, (we've noticed they're one and the same too! - ed.) have been so willing to embrace Abrams as one of their own. "It's hard for white progressives to be too critical of someone who is so strongly and fiercely unapologetically Black and female," Phillips told the Times. "Her authenticity comes from the sectors that are the core parts of the progressive base."
Because you're a racist if you criticize black Democrats.
The article goes on to quote an Abrams spokesman who confirmed that the former progressive icon is actually a pragmatic moderate now who "defines herself by her values and her ability to navigate the buffet table at Golden Corral deliver results for the common good by navigating disparate groups and ideologies."
...
This year's election cycle is shaping up unlike the double-wide Stacey Abrams who hasn't seen a gym since high school to be even more unfavorable for Democrats, mostly as a result of Joe Biden's failed presidency. If Abrams has to pretend to be a moderate to have any shot at winning, the media will be more than happy to oblige.
At least someone's reading the tea leaves and knows Democrats are in for a world of hurt in ten months which cannot come fast enough.
Posted by: Raj || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Compared with what the Biden Administration turned out to be, Tank might actually be a pragmatic moderate...
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/04/2022 0:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Don’t know how successful her ‘rebranding’ will be; and maybe its a coincidence, but CSX Transportation (the big blue and yellow railroad) has redone their freight car logo by removing the stylized boxcar graphics……
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/04/2022 8:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Planet Abrams is proof that being unemployed, a tax deadbeat, a grifter, serial liar, stupid, and enormously ...enormous, can all be forgiven if you are a black female and play those alibi's to max effect with the democrat base. What she really wants is a salary and expenses from the campaign, ego feeding, and preening endlessly.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 01/04/2022 12:16 Comments || Top||

#4  God why won't this bitch go away?
Posted by: Chris || 01/04/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Is Stacey being rebranded all at once or in chunks?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/04/2022 13:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Look, her commissary bill must be huge. She has to peddle (lies) as fast as she can.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 13:53 Comments || Top||


Democrats Face a Brutal Reckoning With Hispanic Voters
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] These days the Democratic Party is like a sad addict whose life has fallen apart, with too much to resolve and repair all at once. Sure, the aching hip and broken relationships can be put off for another day, but the lost job, wrecked car, and empty bank account require immediate attention. President Joe Biden
...... 46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing......
and the Democrats are — simultaneously — working to stave off the failure of his economic agenda, control a once-again rampaging pandemic, mitigate the effects of the worst inflation since 1982, and rescue democracy from new laws that permit the GOP to nullify the next election, all before they likely lose both chambers of Congress next year.There are too many liabilities to count. But there is one new and glaring problem that has nothing to do with bickering factions in Congress, and cannot be explained away by global trends or the potency of election conspiracies and propaganda. A distinct group of their supporters is leaving them. Many Hispanic voters, long a reliable part of the Democratic coalition, have walked away. It is not — yet — a majority of them, but the numbers are dramatic. Biden won 750,000 fewer Hispanic voters in 2020 than Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
did in 2016 — in an Electoral College victory he nearly lost by fewer than 45,000 votes in three states. Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
improved his margin with these voters by eight percentage points in four years, according to an analysis by the Democratic firm Catalist — a larger swing than any among white, black or Asian voters.

It gets worse. Biden’s approval ratings are awful across the board, but his support has eroded more among Hispanic voters than with any other racial group. A Pew/Marist poll from December showed his approve/disapprove numbers with Hispanic voters were 33/65, a net -32, while they were 40/56 with whites, a net of -16.

A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed Hispanic voters splitting their support between both parties, with just 37% of them backing Democrats in the House of Representatives if the midterm elections were held today, compared to the 60% they gave Democrats last November. Republicans would also garner 37% if the election were today. While Biden won 63% of Hispanic voters in 2020, this poll showed they would split their support in a 2024 rematch, with 44% for Biden and 43% for Trump.

Hispanic men are more supportive of Republicans than Hispanic women, and following the 2020 election some Democrats dismissed this as a temporary loss, an attraction to Trump’s strongman persona. But Democrats are wrong to delude themselves with such a fiction. The data shows Hispanic voters not only rejected the left’s embrace of socialism, but that they prioritized the issue of jobs and the economy over all else, even if they were critical of Trump’s stand on immigration and the border wall. Their focus remained the same a year later — Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin won the Hispanic vote when he defeated Terry McAuliffe
...If you constructed what a political boss looks like, it would be him....
in Virginia, and Hispanic voters strongly disapprove of Biden’s handling of the economy. The WSJ poll findings showed that a negative outlook on the economy was seven points higher among Hispanic voters than it was for voters overall.



Posted by: Fred || 01/04/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They delude themselves in their divide and conquer game with making latin = race rather than the ethnic slice of Western Culture they actually are. They more the Left hammers at destroying Western Civ the more Hispanics they alienate.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 01/04/2022 9:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Does this mean the voting machines don't just distribute the count according to district demographics - you know, to prevent fraud?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/04/2022 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  What P2K said. The Latinx misstep was an epic Progressive fail
Posted by: magpie || 01/04/2022 13:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Not much different from a gringo calling them vatos or ese..
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/04/2022 14:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Not if Dominion counts their votes.
Posted by: Angstrom || 01/04/2022 18:51 Comments || Top||


Joe Rogan leads move to GETTR after Twitter bans Dr. Robert Malone, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
[FOXBUSINESS] Podcast titan Joe Rogan opened a GETTR account Sunday and encouraged 7.8 million Twitter followers to join him on the alternative social media app.

"Just in case sh-t over at Twitter gets even dumber, I’m here now as well," Rogan wrote on GETTR. "Rejoice!"

"GETTR" trended on Twitter throughout Sunday afternoon as users reacted to Rogan's tweet about GETTR, with many apparently taking his advice and opening an account.

Rogan's move to GETTR came on the same day that Twitter permanently banned the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., for spreading what the social media company deemed COVID-19 "misinformation."

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to news hounds about being temporarily suspended from Twitter for tweets that violated the social media's misinformation policy on COVID-19 from her office in Longworth House Office Building in Washington, U.S. (Rooters/Elizabeth Frantz / Rooters)

Last week, Twitter also banned Dr. Robert Malone days before he appeared on Rogan's podcast to discuss the government response to the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccines. Malone, a contributor to mRNA vaccine technology, also opened a GETTR account.

GETTR was launched July 4 by former Trump adviser Jason Miller, who told Fox News in an interview at the time that he wanted the social media app to be "independent from social media monopolies, independent from cancel culture; embracing free speech."

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Left and Center-Left Both Claim Stacey Abrams. Who's Right?
[NEWS.YAHOO] To left-leaning Democrats, Stacey Abrams
...the pudgy, sour grapes lo-o-o-o-o-ser (Loser! Loser! Loser!) of the 2018 Georgia governor's race. Stacey nominated herself to be Joe Biden's vice president nominee, to widespread national apathy. She has a very keen eye for Racism in any form, to include the imaginary...
, who is making her second run for Georgia governor, is a superstar: a nationally recognized voting-rights champion, a symbol of her state’s changing demographics, and a political visionary who registered and mobilized tens of thousands of new voters — the kind of grassroots organizing that progressives have long preached.

"I don’t think anyone could call Stacey Abrams a moderate," said Aimee Allison, the founder of She the People, a progressive advocacy group for women of color.

Moderates would beg to differ. They see Abrams as an ally for rejecting left-wing policies that center-left Democrats have spurned, like "Medicare for All," the Green New Deal to combat climate change and the defunding of law enforcement in response to police violence.

"I don’t know that anybody in the party can say, ’She’s one of us,’ " said Matt Bennett, a founder of Third Way, the center-left group. "We can’t pretend she’s a moderate," he added. "But the progressives can’t say she’s a progressive and not a moderate. We’re both kind of right."
"She's a floor wax AND a dessert topping! Stacey Shimmer!"
The question of how to define Abrams, 48, the presumptive Democratic standard-bearer in one of the most high-profile races of 2022, takes on new urgency amid the current landscape of the party.

Moderates and progressives sparred in Washington throughout 2021, frustrating a White House struggling to achieve consensus on its priorities and continuing an ideological debate that has raged in the party for years. There is also thirst for new blood across the party, considering the advanced ages of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier. Of course Corn Pop is a real person....
, congressional leaders, and leading progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders
...The only first openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords. He ran for the 2016 nomination for president, to be cheated out of it by Hillary Clinton, then went back to being an Independent socialist, waiting for 2020 to roll around...
of Vermont and Sen. Elizabeth Being Native American has been part of my story since the day I was born Warren
The Great White Squaw, Lizzie is the Dem Senatrix from Massachussetts. She traces her noble lineage all the way back to Big Chief Spouting Bull. She has high cheekbones that stretch all the way to the top of her head. It has been alleged that she speaks with forked tongue but she denies that. She had a DNA test to prove her lineage and it turns out she's colorless
of Massachusetts.

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#1  Plenty of Tank to go around
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#2  Slave masters fighting over their property.
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AOC caught maskless again in Miami drag bar as Omicron cases skyrocket
Her boyfriend looks right at home.
[NYPOST] Omicron has been a drag for New Yorkers, but not for Rep. Alexandria Sandy Ocasio-Cortez
Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
.The far-left politician (D-NY) was spotted maskless once again in Florida, this time at a packed drag bar in Miami — as the Big Apple continued to be hammered by record-high numbers of COVID-19 cases and faces an indoor mask mandate for one more month.

In video posted by a news hound for the Sunshine State’s Conservative Voice on Sunday, the Democratic darling is seen waving to the large crowd of mostly unmasked drag bar-goers.

"AOC is STILL lounging it up in Florida, in large crowds and maskless," tweeted Brendon Leslie, the news hound who initially posted the video to social media. "This time at a Drag Queen bar in Miami. Rules for thee but not for me."

"For those of you with zero sense of humor: the whole point of this post is to expose hypocrisy," Leslie said in another tweet.

"We don’t actually care she’s maskless. We care she fear mongers about Florida but then has the audacity to vacation here," he added.



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#1  So s/he's actually a vato loco in drag?
That explains the horse face.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 01/04/2022 4:16 Comments || Top||




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