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

[mistertim]

So when he was talking about coke fueled orgies he was apparently just having flashbacks to being in hotel rooms with his bros.

[Momma There Goes That Man]

2 minutes ago, Llevron said:

I feel like that’s the whole game. 

I don’t know, feels more than that. Too many people attacking him for what he might be doing there than the actual hypocrisy or fraud of it 

[hail2skins]

Question: how did this "act" involving Cawthorne wind up being captured on video?  And if it was either him or his cousin who filmed it (or if it someone else but Cawthorne knew it was being taped), on what planet do you think its a good idea to have a video of yourself doing that?

[Llevron]

5 minutes ago, Momma There Goes That Man said:

I don’t know, feels more than that. Too many people attacking him for what he might be doing there than the actual hypocrisy or fraud of it 

You could be right. It could also be people laughing about the fact that he’s calling it ‘being crass’ when he is clearly doing a maneuver we in the industry call the Brazilian Mongoose. But there are undoubtedly people reveling in it so you are sure to be right to some degree. 

7 minutes ago, hail2skins said:

Question: how did this "act" involving Cawthorne wind up being captured on video?  And if it was either him or his cousin who filmed it (or if it someone else but Cawthorne knew it was being taped), on what planet do you think its a good idea to have a video of yourself doing that?

He doesn’t strike me as someone who ever planned to be a congressman and was probably just living his best life. Stupid kid having a good time and it’s coming back to bite him in the ass. 

[Momma There Goes That Man]

9 hours ago, Llevron said:

a maneuver we in the industry call the Brazilian Mongoose.

[Bang]

I'm rooting for him.

Drag them down with you, Madison!

Frankly, goofing around with his cousin or even >gasp< being an actual GAY.. I couldn't care less. Of all the things that should prevent his being a congressman, neither of those are on the very large list.

 

~Bang

Edited May 5, 2022 by Bang

[Cooked Crack]

Just plain evil

[LD0506]

At this point you cannot be surprised. Offended? Repulsed? Yeah but not surprised.

How long before Tucker Carlson starts railing about how Lincoln overstepped his authority with the Emancipation Proclamation?

Not even a joke for the record

[Cooked Crack]

 

[mistertim]

1 hour ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

 

I really wish this was how football worked. If we wanted him enough, we could force KC to give us Mahomes as long as we gave them some sort of compensation.

[balki1867]

"Should the Commanders win the next 4 Super Bowls?" 

[Die Hard]

4 hours ago, Bang said:

I'm rooting for him.

Drag them down with you, Madison!

Frankly, goofing around with his cousin or even >gasp< being an actual GAY.. I couldn't care less. Of all the things that should prevent his being a congressman, neither of those are on the very large list.

 

~Bang

Wouldn’t it be a total head **** if the LGBTQ community came out and publicly embraced/supported him right now.

Edited May 5, 2022 by Die Hard

[China]

Cocaine is a helluva drug:

 

 

[The Sisko]

19 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

There's no way in hell that's this guy's voice. If it somehow is his voice, he needs to talk with his Mom bc he's half black. j/s

 

1 hour ago, Die Hard said:

Wouldn’t it be a total head **** if the LGBTQ community came out and publicly embraced/supported him right now.

They beat you to it!🤣

 

[Bang]

1 hour ago, Die Hard said:

Wouldn’t it be a total head **** if the LGBTQ community came out and publicly embraced/supported him right now.

Oh my GOD that would be BEAUTIFUL

🤣

 

~Bang

[Die Hard]

19 hours ago, Cooked Crack said:

 

He doesn’t want to pay taxes. So who’s paying for the wall?

 

 

[China]

Madison Cawthorn May Have a New Ethics Violation to Handle

 

Overpaying a staff member hardly seems like Rep. Madison Cawthorn’s biggest scandal these days, but a Daily Beast investigation into Cawthorn’s compensation for his chief of staff reveals a cut-and-dried ethics violation—one his office appears to have tried (and failed) to skirt.

 

Congressional pay data shows that North Carolina Republican paid his chief of staff, Blake Harp, $131,278 in 2021. That actually ranks Harp at the low end of compensation for chiefs of staff in Congress.

 

But why he was paid that specific amount could be highly relevant.

 

House ethics rules stipulate that senior congressional staff can only earn $29,595 in outside income each year. According to filings with the Federal Election Commission, Cawthorn’s campaign paid Harp a combined $73,237 in direct payments and payments to his LLC, EMP Strategies.

 

That outside limit, however, only applies to aides who qualify as “senior” staff. Cawthorn’s office appears to have tried to avoid triggering that specific classification. The office’s congressional expense reports show that Harp made about $1,500 less than the annual threshold that would qualify him as senior staff.

 

But the ethics rules don’t calculate senior pay at an annual rate; the pay rate is calculated per every 90-day period. And that’s where they slipped up, paying Harp at a senior rate in the last quarter of 2021.

 

Before Q4, Harp’s top quarterly pay was $32,499.99. But the office bumped that up to $34,499 over the last three months of the year—a total of 92 days—for a daily pay rate of $374.99. The daily rate for senior staff in 2021 was $363.16.

 

That means Harp actually was senior staff in 2021. And that small daily increase carried thousands of dollars in ramifications, because it meant he was subject to the outside income limitations.

 

Click on the link for the full article

[Die Hard]

1 hour ago, The Sisko said:

There's no way in hell that's this guy's voice. If it somehow is his voice, he needs to talk with his Mom bc he's half black. j/s

 

They beat you to it!🤣

 

That’s great. But I’m also talking about leaderships groups speaking to the media, showing up at his events, they can show they support his sexuality but even if they disagree with his politics.

 

Id have his wheelchair riding over the rainbow like a rollercoaster.

[Dan T.]

Two vignettes from the upcoming memoir by former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper that crystallize how ****ed up Trump and his cronies are:

 

 

 

 

[Momma There Goes That Man]

5 minutes ago, Dan T. said:

Two vignettes from the upcoming memoir by former Sec. of Defense Mark Esper that crystallize how ****ed up Trump and his cronies are:

 

 

This guy received an intel briefing every day. That’s like 1460 US Intelligence briefings minimum that he was provided and he still thinks scooby do **** like this would work and nobody would figure it out.

[Die Hard]

9 minutes ago, Momma There Goes That Man said:

This guy received an intel briefing every day. That’s like 1460 US Intelligence briefings minimum that he was provided and he still thinks scooby do **** like this would work and nobody would figure it out.

The guy wanted to fire nuclear missiles at a hurricane. 
 

He’s in serious cognitive decline and should be in a long-term care facility.

 

I’ve accepted that this timeline in the multiverse will self-destruct.

 

 

[The Evil Genius]

 

[The Sisko]

10 minutes ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Yeah, that will definitely prevent their sweet, innocent children from being converted to homosexuals....sort of the same way that gay kids get converted to hetero by watching straight characters. I wonder if all the LGBTQ internet porn coursing all up and through the Bible belt will be required to sport this rating.🤔

[China]

Paul Gosar spends most in House on taxpayer-funded travel even as he rails against 'bloated' government

 

Rep. Paul Gosar boasts he's been "relentless" in seeking to restore fiscal responsibility and "common sense" when it comes to the "bloated" federal government.

 

"I will continue to cut wasteful federal spending wherever I can," the Arizona Republican says on his official website. "The American people and taxpayers deserve nothing less."

Yet Gosar doesn't seem to practice what he preaches.

A review conducted by the nonpartisan watchdog Moonlight Foundation of the self-described fiscal conservative's spending shows he has spent more taxpayer dollars on travel than any other member of the House over the past five years -- an unusual amount of money spent by a rank-and-file member who has served in the minority for part of that time and has built a scant record of legislative accomplishments.

 

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[China]

Boone County murder suspect wins 60 votes in primary election

 

 A Boone County man currently in jail, awaiting the murder trial in the death of his wife, has won the Republican primary for a seat on a township board.

 

Andrew Wilhoite received 60 votes (21.74%) in the GOP race for the Clinton Township board. He is one of three winners in the primary race along with Bradley J. Smith and Michael Young.

Wilhoite, 39, was charged with murder in March in connection to the death of his wife Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite.

 

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