Under the GOP Big Tent

[bodysong]

Under the GOP Big Tent

The advertisement is that there is room for everyone, everthing, under the GOP tent -
Who has taken control of the GOP steering wheel ?

Trump Loyalist Values

Is there any difference between Republican values and Trump Loyalist values ?

Democrat President Biden selects transgender doctor Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/01/19/rachel-levine-transgender-biden-hhs-pick/

Republican, Bruce Jenner / Caitlyn Jenner supported Trump.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/25/caitlyn-jenner-trump-941481

Log Cabin Republicans for Trump ?

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...your-friend/EjRkZnzG3gdwhCgnXL8QAO/story.html

In Arkansas, HB 1570 would ban health care for trans youth and insurance for all
trans people, including adults.

28 states are voting on anti-trans legislation in 2021

'It's Hurtful': Trans Youth Speaks Out As Alabama Debates Banning Medical Treatment

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/28/9812...-as-alabama-debates-banning-medical-treatment

Earlier this month, Republican senator Shay Shelnutt proposed a bill that would
make it a Class C felony for medical professionals in Alabama

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/03/29/transgender-teen-alabama-hurtful-medical-treatment-bill-npr/

Up to ten years in jail, up to $30,000.00 in fines, for a compassionate doctor.

 

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Trump is making it very clear, that he is the head of the Lunacy party.

After blathering incoherently at the Mar-a-Lago wedding that
he crashed, Trump responds to reality in his usual way.

On Monday, former President Donald Trump released a statement from
his residence at Mar-a-Lago tearing into Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr.
Deborah Birx, two of his top advisers during his handling of the
coronavirus pandemic.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-lash...bizarre-press-release-issued-from-mar-a-lago/

 

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Plenty of hypocrites under the GOP Big Tent

2017

It’s official: President Trump just campaigned for Roy Moore

Friday, less than 20 miles from the Alabama border, Trump erased any plausible
deniability he might have had in this Senate race. He explicitly went down South
to campaign for Roy Moore.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...resident-trump-just-campaigned-for-roy-moore/

November 9, 2017

Years later, Corfman says, she saw a segment about Moore on ABC News’s
“Good Morning America.” She says she threw up.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/inve...495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html

 

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Inside the ‘Lord of the Flies’ factionalism now plaguing Trumpland

April1, 2021

From the earliest days of his 2016 campaign through the end of his presidency,
the former New York real estate mogul has surrounded himself with strong
personalities and constantly shifted his favor from one clique to the next.

“Trump has always encouraged that kind of behavior,” said a former aide.
“But it is difficult to do the job like that.”

The warning shot fired over unauthorized use of the Trump Victory donor list was,
for many, a clear example of the eagerness that some Trump aides or former staff
have to exploit what one 2016 Trump campaign official described as a “Wild West”
environment at Mar-a-Lago.

“Right now, it’s like a daycare if you took all the adults away. There’s virtually
nobody with organizational skills left,” said a person familiar with Trump’s
operation.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/01/factionalism-trump-lord-of-flies-478811?utm_source=digg

Trump Campaign Reportedly Maneuvered One-Time Donors
Into Recurring Contributions, Prompting Wave of Fraud Complaints

Apr 3rd, 2021

- Ken Meyer

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trum...ributions-prompting-wave-of-fraud-complaints/

 

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Marjorie Taylor Greene walks back "America First" caucus announcement

Oh, dear! Lunacy Queen Marjorie Greene's KKK Kat was out of the hiding racism bag.

All of the small campaign donation racists are informed that The GOP Big Tent
is supplying support for racists, and the Trump Loyalists will continue to speak
out of the other side of their mouths, to say that they are not racists.

(The few Republicans that are left, are most likely depressed about sharing
space in the GOP tent with the Lunacy caucus, that neglects to use the
most basic of Republican dog whistles.)

April 17, 2021

After so many Trump Loyalist politicians appeared to jump aboard her
"Anglo-Saxon" caucus money train, to make their KKK Klub seem real -

She did not take it back, herself - she sent out a minion to communicate to the media

A CNN article first broke the story:

Nick Dyer, Greene’s spokesperson, told CNN in an email on Saturday afternoon
the Georgia Republican is not “launching anything.”

“The Congresswoman wants to make clear that she is not launching anything.
This was an early planning proposal and nothing was agreed to or approved,”
he said in an email to CNN, referring to a flier promoting the caucus, obtained
by Punchbowl News, that used inflammatory rhetoric.

He added that “she didn’t approve that language and has no plans to launch anything.”

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/c...rica-first-group-there-wont-be-a-klan-caucus/

A[ril 17, 2021

Rep. Greene tries to distance herself from ‘America First Caucus’ document
denounced as racist

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to distance herself from a document published by
Punchbowl News that purportedly outlined the goals of a new “America First Caucus”
being formed by Greene and other hard-right GOP lawmakers. The document had
received blowback from Democrats and some Republicans for promoting nativist
policies and perpetuating the falsehood that there was widespread fraud and corruption
in the 2020 election.

On Saturday, Greene (R-Ga.) described the document as “a staff level draft proposal
from an outside group” and claimed she had not read it. She blasted the media for
“taking something out of context,” but did not specify to which policies in the document
she objected.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...first-caucus-promote-us-uniquely-anglo-saxon/

 

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It became obvious that the Republican party was all about the money,
when Ultra-Christian weasel Ralph Reed had his dick pinched in the
legal squeeze involving Jack Abramoff (2006)

Trump got involved, and the GOP has gone from robbing grandma's bank
account through the "church," to robbing ancient Republican veterans and
blue collar supporters, online. (GOP's threat to individual campaign contributors-
" If you unchecked the secret boxes, and do not allow us to empty your bank account...
...you have betrayed Trump!"

"Everybody will know, because we will tell them.")

The campaign cash revenue stream became a secret revenue sewer pipeline -

June 10, 2021

Something’s Very Fishy About The Big $$$ Secretly Passing From Trump Fund To RNC

Several state Republican parties have suddenly discovered they failed to report large
sums received from the Trump Victory group and passed on to the RNC, The Daily
Beast has reported. As The Daily Beast explains, the Trump Victory group could legally
skirt campaign finance laws by collecting large sums from donors, then parceling out
the money to states’ Republican parties which could, in turn, give the money to the
RNC. But while the RNC reported getting the money from the state parties, an
astonishing number “forgot” they gave it. For example, The Daily Beast notes that
the Arkansas GOP blamed “clerical errors” when it reported a previously undisclosed
$3.5 million in transfers with Trump Victory, a group it has never officially joined.

Hawaii said it missed nearly $1.7 million “due to a misunderstanding regarding the reporting requirements.”

When the FEC wanted to know how the RNC reported receiving money from states
that had not reported giving it, the RNC blamed the states, The Daily Beast reports.
But wait, there’s more: Some of the state committees didn’t even have bank accounts
at the bank used by both Trump Victory and the RNC. Others seem to have recently
“found” accounts they initially failed to report.

- Crooks and Liars

 

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Under the GOP Big Tent

The advertisement is that there is room for everyone, everthing, under the GOP tent -
Who has taken control of the GOP steering wheel ?

The clowns.

 

[RobDownSouth]

The former guy successfully transformed the Republican party in the Angry Aggrieved Victim party. Time will tell if this rebranding will be successful.

Gen-X does not seem as pre-disposed to hate like the Boomers did (and do).

 

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Washington Post's Dana Milbank has accumulated a list of Looney
Lunacy party members.

"Marjorie Taylor Greene led early in the House’s crazy stakes. But a dark horse
has emerged."

bodysong comment-

the Republican Party is bankrolling the fees for Ken Cuccinelli (former Virginia AG,
Trump administration official) to serve as Rep. Andrew S. Clyde's (R-Georgia)
lawyer, because Andy Clyde wants “to do everything within my power
to expose House Resolution 73 [the magnetometer rule] for the danger
it poses to our Republic.”

Rep. "Crazy Andy" Clyde has filed a federal lawsuit on a matter of the most pressing
constitutional importance (a bit of sarcasm from WaPo ?) Because
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Rep. Crazy Clyde (R-Georgia)
each have a stack of fines to pay, because they refuse to go through
the metal detectors. /end bodysong comment

June 14, 2021

“This is a direct assault on a foundational legal principle of our republic and it
should cause great alarm in all of us,” Clyde, wearing a tie clip in the shape of
an automatic weapon, announced to reporters outside the Capitol Monday.

Crazy Clyde complained to reporters that the House Ethics Committee,
which isn’t a court of law, failed to give him his day in court.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...se-andrew-clyde-shows-champion-caliber-crazy/

March 9, 2020 "Lovely Ken"
Federal Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the Trump administration violated the vacancies
act when it filled the top job at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

In that case, the (Trump) administration hired immigration hardliner Ken Cuccinelli for a
job that didn't previously exist, then immediately promoted him to run the entire agency
as acting director.

The judge found that the Trump administration violated the vacancies act by creating
a job for Cuccinelli that was "second in command in name only."

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/09/8135...d-high-level-jobs-without-senate-confirmation

 

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Is this a competition to see which is the Looniest of the Lunacy party ?

Rep Louie Gohmert Swears $5500 'Donation' to Holocaust Denier Was a Mistake

- The Daily Beast

The man running the "ministry" that took Gohmert's cash, is known as a hater

13 May 2019

Irish Minister for Justice Charlie Flanagan signed an exclusion order for Mr Anderson
with immediate effect on 10 May under the Immigration Act 1999.

It is the first time an exclusion order has been granted since the creation
of the act 20 years ago.

Mr Anderson has been banned from a number of countries, including the UK.

Mr Flanagan said he had signed the order "under my executive powers in the interests
of public policy".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-48252527

 

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The Daily Beast reported the Louie Gohmert for Congress Committee
sent $5,500 to hate pastor Steven Anderson’s church in Arizona.

June 16, 2021

Gohmert’s office claimed it hired a Christian singer named Steve Amerson
and accidentally sent the funds to Anderson’s Faithful Word Baptist Church.

In 2020, the American pastor claimed that the catastrophic Australian bushfires
were the “judgment of God” for “banning and deporting preachers of the Gospel”,
where he had been banned from Australia the year before.

He has since been banned from multiple countries for his anti-LGBT+ and
hate-filled rhetoric.

Officials working for the Texas Republican reportedly registered the “donation” to
an organisation in Tempe, Arizona called “Anderson Ministries”.

The Daily Beast said there is no group by this name registered in the state,
but the address in the filing matches that of Anderson’s church.

Aryeh Tuchman, the associate director at the Anti-Defamation League’s Center
on Extremism, questioned the motives behind why Gohmert’s “mysterious” donation
was made.

He described Steven Anderson to The Daily Beast as an “incredibly antisemitic,
incredibly homophobic” individual.

Connie Hair, Gohmert’s chief-of-staff, insisted to The Daily Beast that the money
was for an appearance by the Christian singer at a December fundraiser. She added
the mistake was because of an incorrect internet search by Gohmert’s treasurer,
William Long.

“That’s who it was written to and Louie gave it to him, and when Bill Long got
the check and the charge, he searched ‘Anderson Ministries’ instead of ‘Amerson’,”
Hair said. “Bill Long is amending our filing.”

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/06/16/republican-louie-gohmert-donation-steven-anderson-lgbr/

Fanatics and haters in "30 houses of worship" - Rep. Louie Gohmert's voters.

 

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Log Cabin Republicans must be spoiled trust-fund babies,
because most of the House Republicans voted against
small business owned by LGBTQ

https://www.washingtonblade.com/202...ns-block-lgbtq-small-business-credit-measure/

H.R.1443 – 117th Congress (2021-2022):
LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act
June 15, 2021

Introduced in House (02/26/2021)

LGBTQ Business Equal Credit Enforcement and Investment Act

This bill requires financial institutions to report certain credit application data
to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for the purposes of enforcing fair
lending laws. Specifically, financial institutions must report this data regarding
lesbian-, gay-, bisexual-, transgender-, or queer-owned businesses. Currently,
this data is reported regarding women-owned, minority-owned, and small
businesses.

https://www.justtherealnews.com/con...qual-credit-enforcement-and-investment-act-9/

Ritchie Torres ✓
Twitter › RitchieTorres

As the first openly LGBTQ Latino Member of Congress, I joined @SpeakerPelosi,
@LGBTEqCaucus, & the Florida Delegation at a ceremony for the National Pulse
Memorial. The mass murder of LGBTQ Latinos at Pulse is a searing reminder of
the violence that hate and fear can unleash.

7 hours ago

“The Republicans in the House voted down my legislation, HR 1443, which would
protect LGBTQ-owned businesses from discrimination.”

 

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Log Cabin Republicans . . .

Boy, they ain't goin' for subtle.

"So, how many logs have you had in your cabin, Senator?"

 

[bodysong]

Maggie Haberman ✓
Twitter › maggieNYT

In secret recording, Florida Republican threatens to send Russian-Ukrainian ‘hit squad’
after rival

(link to Politico)

1 day ago

June 17, 2021

During a 30-minute call with a conservative activist that was recorded before he
became a candidate, William Braddock repeatedly warned the activist to not
support GOP candidate Anna Paulina Luna in the Republican primary for a
Tampa Bay-area congressional seat because he had access to assassins.
The seat is being vacated by Rep. Charlie Crist (D-Fla.), who is running
for governor.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/17/secret-recording-florida-republican-threat-hit-squad-494976

A move directly sourced from the Trump playbook, intimidation and threats of
violence from out-of-the-country operatives. Blast from the past, intimidation,
and looming threats caused Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch to flee her position,
and suddenly fly back to the U.S. Rudy Guiliani's forgein national "friends"
in the Ukraine had thought they were communicating and operating in secrecy.
Men that would do anything for money and advatage, includng murder. The
embassy's protective services kept a close eye on the dangerous clowns. They
operated in an area contaminated by Putin. Clowns connected to Mar-a-Lago.

 

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Report:
'Rep. Steven Palazzo Spent Campaign Money To Fight Allegations
He Misspent Campaign Money'

June 18, 2021

While what Palazzo is doing here is technically legal, it still doesn't explain away
the $20,000 he spent renovating his own home to designate it a campaign
headquarters, and then reimburse himself another $60,000 in rent.

A spokesman for Palazzo offered no further comment on the matter.

Source: Jackson Clarion Ledger Republican

Mississippi Rep. Steven Palazzo is using campaign money to pay lawyers
defending him in an investigation into whether he misspent campaign funds.
Palazzo, who represents most of southern Mississippi, paid Jackson law-firm
Watkins & Eager more than $60,000 in December using campaign dollars,
according to campaign finance reports. The disbursements are listed as
professional fees. Forbes first reported the payments.

Justin Brasell, founder of Triumph Campaigns in Jackson, confirmed to the Clarion
Ledger that the payments were for legal defense. Brasell offered no other comment
on the matter. Palazzo's office did not immediately return a request for comment (on)
Wednesday afternoon. Forbes seemed to break the story first but somebody should
give the headline writer at the Clarion Ledger an honorary Pulitzer.

- Crooks and Liars

 

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bodysong comment-
Under the GOP Big Tent, there is plenty of cash, and corruption -

February 2020 Imposters posing as Democrats, funded by formerly-Republican cash

Trump continually screamed about spies targeting him -the opposite was true.
Government teams kept track of all of the illegal shit that Trump and his allies
committed. Trump's alliance, OTOH, had no qualms about spying on everyone,
while formerly-Republicans kept the US in the dark about what they were doing.

AG Bill Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein kept the shades turned
down, on their deals with Trump.

Curious, that the GOP funds so many formerly-Republcan subcultures.
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June 25, 2021

Operatives infiltrated progressive groups across the West to try to manipulate politics
and reshape the national electoral map. They targeted moderate Republicans, too —
anyone seen as threats to hard-line conservatives.

Large donations to the Democratic National Committee — $10,000 each — had bought
Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca tickets to the debate. During a cocktail reception
beforehand, they worked the room of party officials, rainbow donkey pins affixed to their lapels.

In fact, much about them was a lie. Mr. Maier and Ms. LaRocca were part of an
undercover operation by conservatives to infiltrate progressive groups, political
campaigns and the offices of Democratic as well as moderate Republican elected
officials during the 2020 election cycle, according to interviews and documents.

Using large campaign donations and cover stories, the operatives aimed to gather
dirt that could sabotage the reputations of people and organizations considered
threats to a hard-right agenda advanced by President Donald J. Trump.

- NY Times /US/ Politics

Democracy under attack in America - asymmetric warfare by Big Money spies

They Seemed Like Democratic Activists. They Were Secretly Conservative Spies

June 25, 2021

This is being explained as an effort to advance the GOP radical right agenda
under Donald Trump by getting damaging information on Democratic and
moderate Republican campaigns from the inside, aided by big contributions
of cash — possibly illegally.

The covert operations were focused in Western states — Wyoming, Colorado,
and other places.

Glenn Beck is Maier’s uncle. Mr. Maier and Ms. LaRocca who used Wyoming as
a base to insinuate themselves into the political fabric of this state and at least two
others, Colorado and Arizona. Publicly available documents in Wyoming also tied
Mr. Maier and Ms. LaRocca to an address in Cody used by the former spy, Richard
Seddon.

Mr. Maier and Mr. Seddon have also been working together on a business venture
importing ammunition from overseas, according to a business document linking the
two men that was obtained by The (NY) Times.

Last week, Ms. LaRocca and Mr. Maier married in Big Horn, Wyo. Mr. Beck,
the conservative commentator and Mr. Maier’s uncle, delivered a wedding toast.

(Sofia LaRocca hid herself out in Colorado, told lies to many people.)

- Daily Kos

Erik Prince Featured in Conservative Spy Campaign Against Democrats

June 25, 2021

As Goofy as Some of This Campaign Spycraft Is, It's Part of a Very Long Game.
Even the ratf*cking is outsourced now—thanks, in part, to Erik Prince (brother of
former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos)

- Esquire

The progressive political organization "Better Wyoming" said on Friday
that right-wing spies "hired by Wyoming Liberty Group founder Susan Gore
recorded Democrat staff

- Nate Martin, Better Wyoming's executive director

 

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2021

Under the GOP Big Tent, who represents the Republican people of our nation ?

Not the GOP that exists in 2021

Mike Savage aka Mike Weiner is almost 80 years old in 2021
What has he done, during his adult life ? At 50-something
he decided to join talk radio. He attention-whored himself,
and sank deep into muck by insulting Art Bell's wife, Airyn.
Savage used Hot Talk broadcast aired on Cumulus’ KSFO San Francisco,
to do that, and was sued.

Airyn was 22 years old when she married Bell in 2006.

March 29, 1998

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...615598-3ff6-11e3-9c8b-e8deeb3c755b_story.html


Trump Put Michael Savage In Charge of a San Francisco Park

Apr 9th, 2021

Last year, former President Donald Trump appointed right-wing radio host
Michael Savage to the board of directors of San Francisco’s Presidio Trust

The Presidio Trust is a federal corporation that controls the roughly 1,200-acre
urban park at the base of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, which also includes
historic sites and the Presidio’s museum, known as the Heritage Gallery.

During the first public board meeting he attended, Savage was confronted by a Presidio
resident, who took issue with the radio host’s “well-documented views [as they] relate
to the trust’s diversity, equity, and inclusion plan.”

According to Mother Jones, she pointed to a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center
which said Savage “subscribes to the white genocide conspiracy theory” and has blamed
immigrants for the spread of disease.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/trump...ontroversy-over-japanese-american-internment/

radio host Michael Savage on critical race theory:
"I am Jewish. I know how this starts."
"Attacks on white people is exactly what was done to the Jews in Germany
in the 1930s..."
"This is the road to the death camps."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/strip/archive/2021/7/15

 

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one of my favorite watchdogs, Right Wing Watch, is sourced

Opinion:

Can Sarah Palin stage a comeback? You betcha!

August 2, 2021

The former Alaska governor, 2008 Republican vice-presidential nominee, reality TV
personality and human gaffe machine is teasing the possibility of challenging Sen. Lisa
Murkowski in Alaska’s Republican Senate primary next year. “If God wants me to do it
I will,” she told New Apostolic Reformation movement leader Ché Ahn, as first reported
by Right Wing Watch.

- Dana Milbank

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...lin-once-cutting-edge-crazy-is-now-back-pack/

"The Crazy" is hitting Florida and Texas very hard, at this point in time.
I am hoping that Alaska stays away from "The Crazy."

https://www.austinchronicle.com/

 

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I'd go with Sarah Palin -- but I'd be thinking of Tina Fey.