Wingnutties out of control!

[GoCubsGo]

Got himself a twofer.

Voted Most Likely to Go Postal in high school and college.

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Got himself a twofer.

Voted Most Likely to Go Postal in high school and college.

He's a Duke grad , and he was born and raised in Santa Monica, California, same as my brothers Now, he's voted Most Likely to have His Head Explode on Live TV.

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Republicans Once Again Show No Understanding Of ‘Family Values’
The word "family" appears 18 times in the Republican 2024 party platform, yet they spent all week making anti-family moves.

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Stolen valor?

A GOP rep was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery in Iraq. Those he reportedly saved can’t remember him being there

Representative Cory Mills, a MAGA Republican from Florida, was awarded a Bronze Star for his heroism in Iraq in 2003 — but those he allegedly saved don’t remember him being there, a new report reveals.

Mills was honored after he administered “life-saving care” to fellow soldiers Joe Heit and Alan Babin at “great risk to his own life” while under “intense enemy fire” in Iraq, NOTUS (digital news outlet) reports, citing the document recommending Mills receive the award. Mills enlisted in the Army in July 1999 at 19 years old and was honorably discharged in August 2003.

But Heit told NOTUS that Mills “didn’t save” his life, and that he didn’t even suffer life-threatening injuries.

“I don’t recall him being there either,” he added.

Henry Barbe, a medic who flew in via helicopter to help evacuate Babin, also told NOTUS he doesn’t remember Mills being there.

“From what I understand about Mills is he might have been in the unit. I don’t remember him being involved in the medevac,” Barbe said. “To be fair, I was worried about the patients. I don’t remember him, and from what I understand, other people don’t remember him.”

Chris Painter, the platoon sergeant, said he can “pretty much confirm 100% Cory Mills was not up at the bridges at the location of everything.”

“Now, if he came to the company position to assist in escorting Babin to the BN aid station, I don’t know...but he wasn’t at the bridge [where] it all happened I do know that,” Painter told NOTUS.

Army documents recommending Mills for the award also state he saved Joe Ferrand, a sergeant who had been “grabbed by an enemy insurgent” in a separate incident, according to NOTUS. But Ferrand previously claimed Mills’ involvement in the incident was a “fabrication” and said that the act “never took place,” in a written statement to government officials.

Opps.

... The questions around his Bronze Star have been relayed to the Office of Congressional Ethics, Department of Justice, a U.S. attorney’s office in Florida and the FBI, the source told NOTUS....

Mills was elected to Congress in 2022 and has since proven a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump. Mills even attended his hush money trial last summer alongside fellow lawmakers including Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Representative Byron Donalds.

The Republican lawmaker also made headlines February after his romantic partner Sarah Raviani filed a police report claiming she had been assaulted by Mills at his Washington, D.C. apartment.

“(Her significant other for over a year) grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out of the door,” the police report obtained by NBC Washington states.

Raviani, a cofounder of the group Iranians for Trump, then allowed police to listen in on a phone call between her and the congressman in which he allegedly instructed her to “lie about the origin of her bruises.” ...

Opps.

[GoCubsGo]

Stolen valor?
A GOP rep was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery in Iraq. Those he reportedly saved can’t remember him being there


Opps.

That's actually pretty bizarre.

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I doubt any of our "cons" (actually cultists) have the courage to read this interview, and certainly don't think any of them have the brains to have an epiphany like Republican Kyle Sweetser did, but WEIRD shit happens.

He voted for Trump, twice. Now he wants to take down MAGA and the "pathetic" Tommy Tuberville

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GOP Rep Goes To Extreme Lengths To Defend His Manliness To Fox News
Tim Burchett told Fox News "that's what the women in my house do" — social media users provided evidence to the contrary.

... Watters’ biggest ick for men seems to be when they use straws, which he once called “unbecoming” because of it forces a man to purse his lips.

So, naturally, Belisario asked Tennessee congressman Tim Burchett his thoughts about Watters’ opinion that “men should not drink out of a straw in public, or at all.” ...

Of course, insisting that straw use is divided by gender is a stupid claim ― especially when there are receipts, such as this photo from November showing Burchett holding a milkshake with a straw.



Burchett also seemed to be a fan of straws in this X post from July 2018.

Imagine your country’s on fire and Fox News is debating the gender politics of straws. Grown men on primetime TV clutching pearls over plastic tubes. If masculinity is this fragile, maybe let it melt with the ice in their sad little cups.

Congrats to Rep. Tim Burchett for accidentally admitting he’s too fragile to drink from a straw while also revealing he thinks straw-sucking is ‘women’s work.’

What kind of insecure, performative masculinity makes a grown man brag about *checks notes*… being incapable of basic hydration? Is the straw too emasculating? Are you worried your buddies will think you’re… gasp… like the women in your life?

This is the same toxic nonsense that ties masculinity to stupidity like refusing sunscreen, seatbelts, or, apparently, bendy tubes big. Newsflash: Real men aren’t threatened by plastic, Grow up.

#FragileMasculinity #GOPClownCar

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This keeps it sharp, mocking, and on-brand for a progressive critique—tying his comment to broader toxic masculinity while dunking on the absurdity. Adjust tone as needed!

Caveat: Maybe Rep Burchett was making fun of Jesse Watters’ stupidity?

Aside: I couldn't remember if eastern TN's Burchett is neoplacebo's Rep. He's not. Burchett is TN2. neoplacebo is in TN1 and his Rep is Diana Harshbarger (R). I also happened to notice this:

... With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+29, it (TN1) is the most Republican district in Tennessee and the third most Republican in the country.

Yikes! Be kind to neoplacebo, he's our missionary to very hostile territory.

[O Really]

Good lord - even Shasta County CA is only R+12, and it's been totally taken over by right wing militia droolers.

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Good lord - even Shasta County CA is only R+12, and it's been totally taken over by right wing militia droolers.

I'm not sure where you are now. Is it still Oceanside?

#1 AL-04 Robert Aderholt R North central: Cullman, Fort Payne, Muscle Shoals R+33 435/435

#2 KY-05 Hal Rogers R East: Ashland, Pikeville, Somerset R+32 434/435

NC-11 Chuck Edwards R Western North Carolina: Asheville, Hendersonville R+5 247/435 Could be worse, there's hope.

MT-01 Ryan Zinke R West: Missoula, Bozeman, Kalispell R+5 251/435
Almost the same as NC11, looking at whole district.

MD-08 Jamie Raskin D DC suburbs: Rockville, Bethesda, Silver Spring D+30 15/435 Nice.

IL-10 Brad Schneider D Northeast: Highland Park, Waukegan D+12 116/435

SC-04 William Timmons R Upstate: Greenville, Spartanburg R+11 329/435

https://www.cookpolitical.com/cook-pvi/ ... p-and-list

[O Really]

Carlsbad. Next town over, same District CA-49
D+4
But we've also got repug- leaning Orange County mixed in.

[neoplacebo]

GOP Rep Goes To Extreme Lengths To Defend His Manliness To Fox News
Tim Burchett told Fox News "that's what the women in my house do" — social media users provided evidence to the contrary.


What kind of insecure, performative masculinity makes a grown man brag about *checks notes*… being incapable of basic hydration? Is the straw too emasculating? Are you worried your buddies will think you’re… gasp… like the women in your life?

This is the same toxic nonsense that ties masculinity to stupidity like refusing sunscreen, seatbelts, or, apparently, bendy tubes big. Newsflash: Real men aren’t threatened by plastic, Grow up.

#FragileMasculinity #GOPClownCar

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This keeps it sharp, mocking, and on-brand for a progressive critique—tying his comment to broader toxic masculinity while dunking on the absurdity. Adjust tone as needed!

Caveat: Maybe Rep Burchett was making fun of Jesse Watters’ stupidity?

Aside: I couldn't remember if eastern TN's Burchett is neoplacebo's Rep. He's not. Burchett is TN2. neoplacebo is in TN1 and his Rep is Diana Harshbarger (R). I also happened to notice this:

... With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+29, it (TN1) is the most Republican district in Tennessee and the third most Republican in the country.

Yikes! Be kind to neoplacebo, he's our missionary to very hostile territory.

Yaah, this part of the state is in the bag for nutjobs and has been for some time. Overall, it's a good example of the "go where you're needed," And so far I've been lucky to not have to deal with the trump / GQP DEI (Discriminate, Exclude, and Intimidate) program. But the nonstop LAW is virtually impossible to avoid. Keep on truckin'.