But puppy-killing is really, really unpopular, even in the Bubba-American community. An inability to train a bird dog does not speak well of the governor’s rural ranching skills, and canine killing is not covered in the NRA’s Hunter Education program. The impatience the episode exhibits is not a quality you want in someone who’d be an obese heartbeat away from the nuclear launch codes.
The 34th president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially established May 1st as Law Day in 1958, and the 45th, former Republican president and felony defendent Donald J. Trump, is celebrating it in 2024 by spending the day in a New York courtroom. Citizen Trump is accused of disguising hush money payments to a porn star and to others through the National Enquirer as legal expenses when they were undeclared campaign expenses, designed to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. From what we know of the Trump Organization, maybe he claimed the adulterous payoffs as business expenses on his tax returns, too.
Former Congressman George Santos, booted from Congress after a House Ethics Committee report found he used campaign funds for Botox treatments, lavish Atlantic City trips, and designer clothing, says he’s leaving the GOP to run for re-election as an independent candidate. He says Republicans have become too embarrassing.
🚨Announcement🚨
After today’s embarrassing showing in the house I have reflected and decided that I can no longer be part of the Republican Party…
The Republican Party continues to lie and swindle its voter base. I in good conscience cannot affiliate myself with a party that…
The Santos campaign, like that of his lying idolDonald Trump, will take place in the courtroom. He’ll be running for office while facing trial on 23 federal charges.
More:
“The Republican Party Is Too Embarrassing for George Santos, Nia Prater, New York Magazine
“Lyin’ ex-Rep. George Santos leaving GOP, will run for Congress as independent,” Josh Christenson, New York Post
“George Santos will leave ’embarrassing’ Republican Party and run in New York as independent,” Rachel Schilke, Washington Examiner
The United States House of Representatives has voted to expel GOP Rep. George Santos (and also Anthony Zabrovsky, Anthony Devolder, Kitara Ravache, and George Devolder). It became easier for members to boot him after the House Ethics Committee issued a 55-page report with compelling evidence that the Republican Congressman representing New York’s 3th District had committed all kinds of naughty behavior with campaign funds, using them to obtain Botox treatments, lavish Atlantic City trips, and designer clothing and such, then trying to obscure the money trail. The House expulsion ended George Santo’s remarkable run as the luckiest liar in Congress.
The now-defrocked Mr. Santos, the sixth member kicked out of the House in two centuries, has a new career, as a defendant in the federal court system. He faces a 23-count federal indictment that includes accusations he stole political donations and falsified campaign filings. A special election to replace him will be held in a few months, and his Long Island district could easily elect a Democrat to replace him.
More:
“Republican Rep. George Santos expelled from Congress after scathing fraud allegations,” Ken Tran, USA Today
Indicted Republican lawmaker George Santos expelled from U.S. House,” Makini Brice, Reuters
“Republican George Santos expelled from Congress in bipartisan vote,” Martin Pengelly, The Guardian
“George Santos Expelled from U.S. House in Overwhelming Vote, 11 Months After Swearing-In,” Kyler Alvord, People
Related:
“The bellwether that could determine which party has the upper hand in 2024,” Ally Mutnick, Politico
The 55-page Ethics Committee report found compelling evidence that the Republican Congressman representing New York’s 3th District had committed all kinds of naughty behavior with campaign funds, using them to obtain Botox treatments, lavish Atlantic City trips, and designer clothing and such, then trying to obscure the money trail. This follows a 23-count federal indictment that includes accusations that he stole from his donors and falsified campaign filings.
The Ethics Committee report gives Republicans cover to overcome their initial reluctance to pressure Mr. Santos to resign. GOP Congressman Michael Guest (R, MS-3), Ethics Committee Chair, introduced a bill to expel Mr. Santos from Congress, even though his Long Island district could easily elect a Democrat to replace him. The House vote will probably take place tommorrow, ending George Santo’s run as the luckiest liar in Congress.
More:
“House Ethics chairman introduces resolution to expel George Santos from Congress,” Haley Talbot, Lauren Fox and Clare Foran, CNN
“Santos ethics report finds ‘substantial evidence’ of criminal wrongdoing,” Katherine Tully-McManus, Sarah Ferris, and Olivia Beavers, Politico
“11 of the most scathing allegations in the House ethics report about Santos,” Mariana Alfaro and Maegan Vazquez, Washington Post
“NY Rep. George Santos won’t seek reelection after scathing House ethics report,” Brigid Bergin and Giulia Heyward, Gothamist
No one greeted the former Vice President’s 2024 campaign with such enthusiasm, not MAGA-heads, not evangelicals, or (more importantly) political donors. Mr. Pence um, suspended his cash-strapped campaign on Saturday. He will be missed by nobody; no one really noticed he was running. Maybe Mr. Pence will go back to his political roots, hosting a right-wing talk radio show in Indiana.
More:
“Mike Pence suspends his struggling 2024 campaign,” Maeve Reston, Washington Post
“Pence ends White House campaign after struggling to gain traction. ‘This is not my time,’ he says,” Jill Colvin, Associated Press
Update:
“Mike Pence Returns Four Dollars to Donors,” Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
USDA pegs the school lunch market at $14.2 billion annually, so what MAGA couldn’t accomplish, Big Food has. Kraft Heinz has infested school cafeterias with ultra-processedLunchables.
More:
“How Lunchables ended up on school trays,” Lenny Bernstein, Lauren Weber, and Dan Keating, Washington Post
“Moms for Liberty” was formed in Florida by sore losers in 2020 school board elections. These incumbents lost their seats after running pro-COVID anti-mask campaigns during the peak of the pandemic. The organization, um, went viral among right wing mothers in 45 states, and the spreading contagion includes book bans, school board and teacher harrassment, teacher union bashing, and censorship of history and literature curricula. They would probably be against the use of “curricula” instead of “curriculums” so don’t share this with them.
Last week was the American Library Association’s annual Banned Books Week, and these mothers adopted it, bragging about the books they’ve banned. Sadly, Moms for Liberty’s science-denying, white-supremacist campaigns were effective in 2022 school board elections across the country, and the outfit is now a potent force in today’s MAGA/Qanon Republican party.
This is a “parental rights” group, fighting for the right to pass their ignorance and hate on to everyone’s children, not just their own. In June, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) listed Moms for Liberty as an “extremist” organization.
More:
“Six reasons why Moms for Liberty is an extremist organization,” Glen C. Altschuler, The Hill
“Inside Moms for Liberty’s Close Relationship With the Proud Boys,” David Gilbert, Vice News
“Moms for Liberty’s Hamilton County chapter apologizes for quoting Hitler in newsletter,” Indianapolis Star
“Moms for Liberty is training moms to use guns,” Olivia Little, Media Matters
“Tax complaint filed against rightwing parents’ rights group Moms for Liberty,” MacKenzie Ryan, The Guardian
In late August, the Ron Desantis campaign dropped its first TV ad, claiming the candidate “joined the Navy JAG and deployed to Iraq with SEAL Team 1,” showing young, uniformed Ron brandishing a rifle. It was met with a volley of return fire from angry combat veterans. Despite the ad’s implications of combat, Lt. Desantis went to Iraq as legal advisor to a SEAL Team commander.
But why the outrage? Do you know the hundreds of billable hours attorney Desantis sacrified for our country?
The ad advises that Lt. Desantis was awarded a Bronze Star. True, but it was administrative, not for valor. He also received a Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal for prosecuting at least 25 court martial cases. Other duties during his JAG service included serving as physical fitness coordinator, recruiting officer, and an assistant urinalysis coordinator. The last is perfect training for the 2024 Republican presidential race.
He was just a fucking Navy lawyer, never a SEAL. The SEALs were merely his clients. Can't even imagine that pudgy little gnome lasting a day in BUD/S training! 🤣🤣🤣
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