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The Sewer That Is The GOP: With All The White Supremacists, Conspiracy Nutters, And Other Malicious Whacko Subgroups, How Does It Get Fixed?

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balki1867

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LOL, AK-47s are the weapon of America's enemies- the Russians, the North Koreans, Middle Eastern terrorists, etc., mostly because they're cheap and Russian-made.  That guy in New Hampshire revealed more than he intended with that tweet.  Either, he:

 

1) Supports our enemies

2) Has no idea what he's talking about and is going for cheap political points

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56 minutes ago, balki1867 said:

Either, he:

 

1) Supports our enemies

2) Has no idea what he's talking about and is going for cheap political points


Some times, it can take years to tell the difference. 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Blames Medications, Not Guns, For Mass Shootings

 

In the wake of the mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, on July 4, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of Georgia, dismissed any conversation about gun control, and instead suggested —without evidence— that there’s a link between the recurring mass shootings and medication.

 

After authorities identified the shooter, 22-year-old Robert E. Crimo III, Greene tweeted:

 

“Is this going to be another story where some crazy manifesto will be found? Greene wrote. “Are we going to be told every ‘weapon of war’ and amount of ammo he bought yet the public won’t be told his prescription drug history or recreational drug history.”

 

“When are we going to have an honest conversation about drug abuse, mental illness, and SSRI’s??? And deadly side effects,” the Q-Anon-aligned lawmaker on Monday asked in the tweet, referring to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors—drugs typically prescribed to treat depression.

 

According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information, SSRIs “are often used as first-line pharmacotherapy for depression and numerous other psychiatric disorders due to their safety, efficacy, and tolerability.”

 

In following tweets, Greene noted that Crimo’s weight, estimated by police as 120 pounds, was “absolutely not normal” for someone thought to stand 5-feet 11-inches tall.

“What was he on?” Greene asked, demanding more information on Crimo be released.

 

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40 minutes ago, Larry said:

 

When you're not involved in it?  


Everything she says is disingenuous. There’s not a genuine conversation to be had…. she’s not willing or capable of it. She’s just a troll. Literally and figuratively.

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We can have an honest conversation about mental illness when the government starts supporting treatments, doesn’t take money from mental care and does not exhibit a holier than though attitude towards people that are mentally unstable.

 

when people like margarine actually start helping out instead of using mental health as a cop out so they can keep their guns and avoid having healthier gun legislation.

 

Actually, as much as the right loves their guns, I wonder if that in itself is a mental issue. I swear, some people I know probably go home and make love to their guns. 
 

please don’t use protection if you do

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13 minutes ago, Fan since a Fetus said:

We can have an honest conversation about mental illness when the government starts supporting treatments, doesn’t take money from mental care and does not exhibit a holier than though attitude.

 

Again, Republicans are being disingenuous. They can say mass shootings are related to mental illness…. but when gun control bills get voted on about flagging applications for mental illness…. they vote against it unanimously. 

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45 minutes ago, Die Hard said:

 

Again, Republicans are being disingenuous. They can say mass shootings are related to mental illness…. but when gun control bills get voted on about flagging applications for mental illness…. they vote against it unanimously. 

 

LOL, early on yesterday when the shooter's name was revealed, Fox News ran an article about him that was 70% about his rap "career."  Now that we're learning more, I'm hearing all of the talking points about, "Why must we turn this tragedy into a political issue. Can't we mourn the people who died without trying to score points?" 

 

Disingenuous is the perfect description of the Republican response.

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Disingenuous
Intentionally misleading

Happily ignorant

Purposefully obtuse
Constantly deflecting

Terrorist enabling

Firmly in control of what they're doing.

This is what civil war looks like these days. Stop asking when it will or if it will start.

It already has, and this is not the first attack. It sure won't be the last. 

 

~Bang

 

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2 hours ago, Die Hard said:

 

Again, Republicans are being disingenuous. They can say mass shootings are related to mental illness…. but when gun control bills get voted on about flagging applications for mental illness…. they vote against it unanimously. 


Or simply realize that mental illness is largely a personal issue until that person acquires an AR. 

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Missouri state rep resigns after federal conviction for COVID-19 fraud scheme

 

A Missouri state lawmaker resigned on Friday after a jury found her guilty on 22 counts for fraudulently accepting hundreds of thousands of pandemic-era federal stimulus dollars and other offenses.

 

Missouri state Rep. Tricia Derges (R) was convicted on Tuesday after she applied for nearly $900,000 in CARES Act funds for what she said were COVID-19 testing costs incurred by nonprofit Lift Up, but the organization never provided any testing services, according to a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ).

 

Derges was also found guilty on Tuesday in separate schemes in which she fraudulently marketed a stem cell treatment and illegally prescribed drugs to patients.

 

The DOJ said Lift Up’s medical clinic closed from the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 until June that year, and Derges supported her funding claim by providing COVID-19 test receipts for her for-profit Ozark Valley Medical Clinic. 

 

The clinic had already charged clients $167 per test, according to the DOJ, but a county commission paid Derges’s nonprofit $296,574 in CARES Act funds based on the fraudulent request. Derges then transferred the funds to her for-profit clinic.

 

“She violated her position of trust to selfishly enrich herself at the expense of others,” said U.S. Attorney Teresa Moore in a statement. “But a jury of her peers, in a unanimous verdict, saw through her smokescreen of excuses and ridiculous claims, and now she will be held accountable for her criminal behavior.”

 

Derges was found guilty of three counts of wire fraud in the scheme.

 

The jury convicted Derges on another seven counts of wire fraud for charging patients a combined amount of nearly $200,000 for what she fraudulently marketed as a stem cell treatment at her for-profit clinic. The jury additionally found her guilty on two counts of making false statements for telling federal agents the treatment contained stem cells when she knew it did not, in addition to other untrue information.

 

The jury also found Derges guilty of 10 counts of illegally drugs over the internet without a valid prescription. 

 

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