Conservative Ideology 2024: NOTHING BUT LIES AND FEARMONGERING

[jhu72]

RepubliCON scum just can't tell the truth.

[Farfromgeneva]

RepubliCON scum just can't tell the truth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2cKxtKsppU8

It's not natural if it goes against God
It's not factual Her truth is not hard
It's not natural if it goes against God
It's not factual gimme the truth

[Seacoaster(1)]

Just really connecting here; you can feel it, right?

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/stat ... 73/photo/1

[Brooklyn]

the state of the republiCON party:



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[jhu72]

Texas republicans claim AG Ken Paxton is a scumbag. About time!

[jhu72]

Long time Wyoming republican claims Christian Nationalists have "hijacked" the state. Surprise, surprise! Golly.

[Brooklyn]

MTG asks for decorum:


https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1661483 ... 0217941866

[Brooklyn]

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/ ... jO9pIuAAAA

[Farfromgeneva]

Texas House Votes to Impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton

Fellow Republicans join in move to oust state’s top lawyer

Shannon Najmabadi
Updated May 27, 2023 9:03 pm ET
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a pugilistic Republican who has long been dogged by scandal, was impeached by the state’s House of Representatives Saturday, a historic move that removed the state’s top prosecutor from office pending a trial in the Senate.

The vote, taken before a packed House gallery, is an earthquake in Texas politics that makes Paxton the only statewide officeholder to have been impeached since 1917.

“We have a duty and an obligation to protect the citizens of Texas from elected officials that abuse their office and their power for personal gain,” Republican state Rep. David Spiller said as articles of impeachment were debated Saturday. “We should not be complicit in allowing that behavior. We should not ignore it and pretend it didn’t happen.”

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The impeachment was approved in a 121-23 vote, with 60 Republicans including the House speaker voting against one of their own party’s prominent standard bearers, who gained national attention when he challenged the results of the 2020 election in four states.

Paxton has served in the Texas House and Senate. He was re-elected as attorney general in 2022 despite allegations of abuse of office, the rebellion of multiple top aides in 2020 and a 2015 securities-fraud indictment for which he hasn’t yet stood trial.


Republican state Rep. David Spiller cited an obligation to protect citizens from ‘officials that abuse their office and their power for personal gain.’ Photo: adam davis/Shutterstock
A two-thirds majority of the Senate’s 31 senators, which includes Paxton’s wife, Angela Paxton, will be needed to permanently remove Paxton from office. With the biennial session scheduled to end Monday, the Senate either has to stay to start impeachment proceedings or set a later date.

House members will serve as managers during the Senate proceedings, similar to prosecutors, presenting arguments to senators, who would serve in a role similar to jurors.

Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, can appoint a temporary replacement to the attorney general’s office while the Senate proceedings are under way. Abbott’s office didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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Paxton’s ouster came shortly after the threat of impeachment became public this week, a timeline that opponents of the impeachment have criticized as rushed.

Three Republicans and two Democrats on the House General Investigating Committee voted unanimously to adopt the articles of impeachment Thursday, a day after investigators laid out the findings of an inquiry that had begun quietly this spring when Paxton requested $3.3 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit. The lawsuit was brought by several of Paxton’s former deputies who claimed the attorney general retaliated against them after they accused him of abusing his office to help a donor.

“But for Paxton’s own request for a taxpayer-funded settlement over his wrongful conduct, Paxton would not be facing impeachment by the House,” members of the investigative committee said in a Friday memorandum.

After the impeachment documents were distributed to state lawmakers, Paxton personally called some representatives while they were on the House floor “threatening them with political consequences in their next election,” said state Rep. Charlie Geren, a Republican who served on the House investigating committee.

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There are 20 articles of impeachment, including conspiracy, dereliction of duty, misapplication of public resources, unfitness for office, bribery, obstruction of justice, false statement and conspiracy.

Paxton, who has denied wrongdoing, has denounced the proceedings as an illegal effort to overturn the will of Texas voters that would imperil litigation his office has brought against the Biden administration.

He called the proceedings a “politically motivated sham” in a statement posted on Twitter after the vote Saturday.

Lawmakers repeated claims first raised by the whistleblowers that Paxton used the attorney general’s office to benefit his friend and donor Nate Paul—for example, by directing employees to intervene in a lawsuit against corporate entities controlled by Paul and to prepare a legal opinion to help avert pending foreclosure sales of properties connected to Paul.

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The voting board was illuminated with a majority of green lights as the House voted to impeach state Attorney General Ken Paxton. Photo: Eric Gay/Associated Press
Paul paid for renovations to Paxton’s Austin home and employed a woman with whom Paxton was said to be having an extramarital affair, lessening the commute Paxton would have had to make to see her, said state Rep. Ann Johnson, a Democrat who served on the House investigating committee.

“This guy has gone almost a decade manipulating the processes, throwing false narratives out and almost proving himself to be untouchable,” Johnson said. “We see that same MO starting now.”

Republican lawmakers who opposed the impeachment said the inquiry into Paxton was secretive, that they had been given little notice that articles of impeachment were being considered and that some of the investigators had voted in Democratic primaries.

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“If I’m ever going to be a part of any impeachment proceeding that actually results in the impeachment of an officer, I don’t want it to look like a Saturday mob out for an afternoon lynching,” said state Rep. John Smithee, a longtime Republican lawmaker who represents the Amarillo area. “I want it to look like a clear, deliberative, somber and sober exercise.”

Saturday’s proceedings come after Republican House Speaker Dade Phelan and the Republican-led House have been under pressure from more conservative members of their party’s flank, including state leaders like Paxton, over culture-war legislation, said Mark Jones, a political science fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute.

Charles “Rocky” Rhodes, a professor at South Texas College of Law Houston who has expertise in state and federal constitutional law, said he was surprised how lopsided the House vote was given Paxton’s strong support from conservative legal figures.

Former President Donald Trump and members of his orbit, as well as Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, voiced their support for Paxton and chagrin at the charges.

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“What is our Country coming to?” Trump posted on his social-media platform Truth Social, along with a video that appeared to show the House speaker slurring his words.

It is unclear how the Senate will vote on impeachment, but several experts said they doubted it would garner such bipartisan support.

Only two officials have been successfully impeached in Texas history: Former Texas Gov. James Ferguson in 1917 and state Judge O.P. Carrillo in the 1970s.

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Impeachments are “incredibly rare,” said Ross Garber, an adjunct professor at the Tulane University Law School who has represented several governors facing impeachment proceedings.

The vote in Texas is particularly significant because it immediately suspended Paxton from office, Garber said—a process unlike the federal government’s and that used in numerous other states.

“Remember, Trump was impeached and continued to serve in office,” he said.

Given the rarity of impeachments, Randall Erben, an adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law with extensive experience working in Texas politics, said there are few road maps for Texas lawmakers to follow.

“The constitution is really vague. It basically says ‘the power of impeachment rests in the House of Representatives.’ Period,” he said.

TJ Turner, a lawyer representing one of the whistleblowers, said the vote was further affirmation Paxton’s former aides “did the right thing.”

Write to Shannon Najmabadi at [email protected]

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[CU88a]

May 29, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAY 30

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

On March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!”

“You are away from home, separated from your families, no longer at a civilian job or at school and many of you are risking your very lives,” the pamphlet explained, “because of a thing called fascism.” But, the publication asked, what is fascism? “Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze,” it said, “nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it.”

Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”

Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy—faith in the common sense of the common people—was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”

Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America, the pamphlet warned; after all, “[w]e once laughed Hitler off as a harmless little clown with a funny mustache.” And indeed, the U.S. had experienced “sorry instances of mob sadism, lynchings, vigilantism, terror, and suppression of civil liberties. We have had our hooded gangs, Black Legions, Silver Shirts, and racial and religious bigots. All of them, in the name of Americanism, have used undemocratic methods and doctrines which…can be properly identified as ‘fascist.’”

The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques:

First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well-planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”

Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”

It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”

The only way to stop the rise of fascism in the United States, the document said, “is by making our democracy work and by actively cooperating to preserve world peace and security.” In the midst of the insecurity of the modern world, the hatred at the root of fascism “fulfills a triple mission.” By dividing people, it weakens democracy. “By getting men to hate rather than to think,” it prevents them “from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem.” By falsely promising prosperity, it lures people to embrace its security.

“Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,” it warned. Freedom requires “being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.” And if “we want to make certain that fascism does not come to America, we must make certain that it does not thrive anywhere in the world.”

Seventy-eight years after the publication of “FASCISM!” with its program for recognizing that political system and stopping it from taking over the United States, President Joe Biden today at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, honored those who gave their lives fighting to preserve democracy. “On this day, we come together again to reflect, to remember, but above all, to recommit to the future our fallen heroes fought for, …a future grounded in freedom, democracy, equality, tolerance, opportunity, and…justice.”

“[T]he truest memorial to their lives,” the president said, is to act “every day to ensure that our democracy endures, our Constitution endures, and the soul of our nation and our decency endures.”

[MDlaxfan76]

Good piece, thanks for posting.

[Typical Lax Dad]

May 29, 2023
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
MAY 30

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S. Army personnel in the European theater of World War II. Titled Army Talks, the series was designed “to help [the personnel] become better-informed men and women and therefore better soldiers.”

On March 24, 1945, the topic for the week was “FASCISM!”

“You are away from home, separated from your families, no longer at a civilian job or at school and many of you are risking your very lives,” the pamphlet explained, “because of a thing called fascism.” But, the publication asked, what is fascism? “Fascism is not the easiest thing to identify and analyze,” it said, “nor, once in power, is it easy to destroy. It is important for our future and that of the world that as many of us as possible understand the causes and practices of fascism, in order to combat it.”

Fascism, the U.S. government document explained, “is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.” “The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.”

“The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence—democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told. They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law.” “Fascism treats women as mere breeders. ‘Children, kitchen, and the church,’ was the Nazi slogan for women,” the pamphlet said.

Fascists “make their own rules and change them when they choose…. They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of ‘blood’ and ‘race,’ by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and ‘realistic’ to be pitiless and violent.”

Fascists understood that “the fundamental principle of democracy—faith in the common sense of the common people—was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few,” it explained, “[s]o they fought democracy…. They played political, religious, social, and economic groups against each other and seized power while these groups struggled.”

Americans should not be fooled into thinking that fascism could not come to America, the pamphlet warned; after all, “[w]e once laughed Hitler off as a harmless little clown with a funny mustache.” And indeed, the U.S. had experienced “sorry instances of mob sadism, lynchings, vigilantism, terror, and suppression of civil liberties. We have had our hooded gangs, Black Legions, Silver Shirts, and racial and religious bigots. All of them, in the name of Americanism, have used undemocratic methods and doctrines which…can be properly identified as ‘fascist.’”

The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.’” And they would use three techniques:

First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well-planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”

Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”

Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.”

It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”

The only way to stop the rise of fascism in the United States, the document said, “is by making our democracy work and by actively cooperating to preserve world peace and security.” In the midst of the insecurity of the modern world, the hatred at the root of fascism “fulfills a triple mission.” By dividing people, it weakens democracy. “By getting men to hate rather than to think,” it prevents them “from seeking the real cause and a democratic solution to the problem.” By falsely promising prosperity, it lures people to embrace its security.

“Fascism thrives on indifference and ignorance,” it warned. Freedom requires “being alert and on guard against the infringement not only of our own freedom but the freedom of every American. If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.” And if “we want to make certain that fascism does not come to America, we must make certain that it does not thrive anywhere in the world.”

Seventy-eight years after the publication of “FASCISM!” with its program for recognizing that political system and stopping it from taking over the United States, President Joe Biden today at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, honored those who gave their lives fighting to preserve democracy. “On this day, we come together again to reflect, to remember, but above all, to recommit to the future our fallen heroes fought for, …a future grounded in freedom, democracy, equality, tolerance, opportunity, and…justice.”

“[T]he truest memorial to their lives,” the president said, is to act “every day to ensure that our democracy endures, our Constitution endures, and the soul of our nation and our decency endures.”

Thanks. Sounds familiar these days….

[jhu72]

Red Pill Women

[youthathletics]

Red Pill Women ....-->

<--....are hot, give great bj's, and don't have underarm hair.

Read some of the Reddit posts on their thread. Didn't see much of anything to worry about.

[Farfromgeneva]

Red Pill Women

White Baby Challenge? Is that the “And 1” version of
The Crack Baby Association?

https://youtu.be/CH-i2ihuqZc

[Farfromgeneva]

Red Pill Women ....-->

<--....are hot, give great bj's, and don't have underarm hair.

Read some of the Reddit posts on their thread. Didn't see much of anything to worry about.

As said by Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Fogle

[Seacoaster(1)]

Oops, forgot about the Constitution while performing for their frightened constituents?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/03/us/p ... ytpolitics

“A federal judge said late Friday that a law in Tennessee aimed at restricting drag shows was unconstitutional, saying it was overly broad and violated the First Amendment.

The ruling is an initial victory for supporters of L.G.B.T.Q. rights after weeks of turmoil and confusion over the law’s language and how it would affect not only drag artists in the state, but also transgender, nonbinary and other gender-nonconforming people. Tennessee, which passed the law this year with the stated goal of protecting children, was among more than a dozen states that passed measures restricting L.G.B.T.Q. rights.

Although only Shelby County, where the lawsuit was filed, is explicitly prevented from enforcing the law, the decision by Judge Thomas L. Parker of the Federal District Court in Memphis sent a clear signal about the statute that could affect enforcement of the law and lead to challenges elsewhere in Tennessee.

The attorney general of Tennessee, Jonathan Skrmetti, who said he expected to appeal the decision, maintained that the ruling did not affect the rest of the state. “The Adult Entertainment Act remains in effect outside of Shelby County,” he said. He added that the law’s language “is rooted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s long-established First Amendment precedent.”

Friends of George’s, which frequently puts on productions featuring drag or L.G.B.T.Q. actors, argued that the wording of the law was vague and threatened its constitutional right to freedom of speech and its income from performances.

The law does not explicitly refer to drag but forbids “adult cabaret,” including by “male or female impersonators,” on public property or anywhere children could see it if the performance meets the state’s definition of “harmful to minors.” Violators of the law would be charged with a misdemeanor for a first-time offense and a felony for subsequent offenses.

During the temporary injunction, the law’s potential impact had sowed fear and uncertainty among drag artists and organizers behind a series of Pride Month celebrations set to take place across Tennessee.“

[NattyBohChamps04]

the state of the republiCON party:



https://assets.amuniversal.com/bfe0b880 ... a9545d.png

What's the Harry Potter sorting hat and a witches hat got to do with it? Pilgrim/puritan hat fits better.

[Brooklyn]

the state of the republiCON party:



https://assets.amuniversal.com/bfe0b880 ... a9545d.png

What's the Harry Potter sorting hat and a witches hat got to do with it? Pilgrim/puritan hat fits better.

Actually, a dunce cap is more apropos for those of that ilk.

[Typical Lax Dad]

the state of the republiCON party:



https://assets.amuniversal.com/bfe0b880 ... a9545d.png

What's the Harry Potter sorting hat and a witches hat got to do with it? Pilgrim/puritan hat fits better.

Actually, a dunce cap is more apropos for those of that ilk.