Conservatism

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Conservative is when you cry like a bitch about the color of a cartoon character's clothes.
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‘Paw Patrol’ Spinoff Features Nonbinary Character—And Angers Anti-‘Woke’ Crowd

The animated series “Rubble & Crew” is facing some backlash for including a nonbinary character.
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Mental illness.
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That's where they draw the line? Not that an entire area's municipality is run by a 10-year-old and some puppies who seemingly have an unlimited budget and waste tax dollars? Or that Mayor Humdinger committed election fraud and became an illegitimate mayor of Adventure City? Or that Mayor Goodway is a bumbling fool who carries an emotional support chicken?

Out of all the things you can criticize the Paw Patrol universe over, a nonbinary character isn't even on the list.
 
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That's where they draw the line? Not that an entire area's municipality is run by a 10-year-old and some puppies who seemingly have an unlimited budget and waste tax dollars? Or that Mayor Humdinger committed election fraud and became an illegitimate mayor of Adventure City? Or that Mayor Goodway is a bumbling fool who carries an emotional support chicken?

Out of all the things you can criticize the Paw Patrol universe over, a nonbinary character isn't even on the list.
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They are okay with all of those things, except for when they benefit the wrong people, then they are the worst things ever.
 
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Updated: Hazelbrook Middle School evacuated after bomb, shooting threats targeted staff homes and families

A Tualatin middle school was forced to evacuate Friday, Sept. 29, one day after video of an altercation between two students at the school went viral online.
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A Tualatin middle school was forced to evacuate Friday, Sept. 29, one day after video of an altercation between two students at the school went viral online.

Hazelbrook Middle School remains closed on Friday following a threat of violence made against staff and students. District leadership said the assault is being handled by law enforcement.

Superintendent Sue Rieke-Smith said during a press conference Friday afternoon that after multiple threats toward the district had been made on social media, email and voicemail, a new bomb threat came in around 9:30 or 10 a.m. Friday morning.

“The threat today was specific in terms of time and place, and it involved not just this school specifically, but it involved staff members’ homes and families,” Rieke-Smith and her husband included, she said.

Rieke-Smith said the district began working with local law enforcement and determined the threat was specific enough that the district should send students and staff home “out of an abundance of caution.”

The evacuation came one day after a video went viral online, showing a student grabbing a classmate and throwing them to the ground violently, shouting obscenities, pulling their hair and striking them repeatedly.

The video has been viewed millions of times online and shared widely among politically conservative accounts across the globe, who believed that the assailant in the video may have been transgender. Neither the school district nor the Tualatin Police have confirmed the gender identity of the attacker and federal law bars the school district from making such confirmations.

Rieke-Smith said the fight, which occured last week, was first handled by teachers and staff in the hallway then handed over to one of the district’s school resource officers in the area.

The assailant is now in the hands of Tualatin Police Department, which is investigating. Once concluding, Rieke-Smith said the district will decide on any additional consequences for the student.

Rieke-Smith called the attack “premediated” and spurred by nationwide social media trends of students recording threats or fights to get “likes” online.

“The minute that video, however, went viral, then there were issues that were raised by the larger community, not just internal to the district but external to the district,” she said. “Adults nationwide started calling out the student’s gender. That had nothing to do with the choice the student made, relative to the assault.”

According to The Oregonian, which first reported on the story, the school district has been flooded with angry calls from across the country, from people who viewed the video and believed, wrongly, that the perpetrator was disciplined differently, because of their supposed gender identity.

Rieke-Smith could not comment on whether the assailant in the video is a transgender female — as those on social media have alleged — due to federal protections on student health and discipline records.

She also said she did not know from where the threat was made, whether locally or somewhere else in the U.S.

In late October last year, Tigard High School went into “lockout” procedure after a threat was made against the school. On the same day, the neighboring Beaverton School District's Westview High School was placed on lockdown, after receiving what school officials described as a threatening "prank call."

Rieke-Smith said the call to TTSD last year originated from the Midwest, and the caller was put in jail as a result.

Even prior to Friday’s threat, the situation had escalated to a point that the Tigard-Tualatin School Board released a statement Thursday evening, saying that hateful online rhetoric was making things worse.

“Students and adults contributed to the sharing of this recording that exposed minors who were directly and indirectly involved without consent,” the school board wrote. “In addition, the sharing of this incident has spread across the country and beyond, inspiring false information and a focus and discourse on sexual identity. These acts have contributed to the trauma individuals and families are already experiencing.”

The plan is for students to return to class at Hazelbrook on Monday. Rieke-Smith said administrators and law enforcement are working to determine what extra supports might be needed for students and staff next week, as a result of the threats and early dismissal Friday.

Rieke-Smith said after the pandemic, the district has been working on expanding social working staff and counselors across its 17 schools.

She continued that prior to the pandemic, she may have been surprised that the assault occurred in a middle school, and not a high school.

“Postpandemic, middle school students have been incredibly impacted by the prolonged closure and the pandemic itself,” she said.

In a follow-up interview, Rieke-Smith said the district has seen the number of student fights across the district decrease after a post-pandemic high.

“I would say that first year (2021-22) was really difficult,” she said. “We saw a lot of dysregulated kids and a lot of dysregulated behaviors. …Year two was better. This year we had one of the strongest starts ever. The number of documented physical altercations looks far more like prepandemic than postpandemic.”

And even this, Rieke-Smith said this headline-making incident has been unlike others.

“Incidents such as this particular assault, this is the only one. We just have not had that level of violence in a very long time.”

Per typical school board procedure, the elected officials are set to look at hate speech, discipline and student conduct policies in the coming weeks.

Rieke-Smith said the policy review is standard, and just so happens that the discussion on these topics related to the recent assault will be taken up in a few weeks.
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Not terribly surprising, connie rat Andy Ngo may have played more than a negligible role in the outrage leading to these threats.
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OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOL GETS BOMB THREAT AFTER ANTI-TRANS OUTRAGE CAMPAIGN | Left Coast Right Watch

Right wing grifters got another school targeted with a bomb threat, this time in Oregon.
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The outrage vector this time seems to be Andy Ngo, the (formerly?) Portland-based far-right propagandist who’s been targeting local activists and scaremongering about “antifa” for the last half-decade. Ngo boosted video of the fight from a man named Ben Edtl, who claimed he had video “two prior assaults” by the same student. Ngo called him a “Portland area parent who has a family member at Hazlebrook Middle School,” but Edtl is also the founder of COVID denial/general right wing grievance nonprofit “Free Oregon.” Ngo also posted photos from inside the school showing books in the library humanizing queer people and pride flags draped in front of a desk. Ngo described this as “trans and radical propaganda.” Hazelbrook Midde School, which Ngo tagged, locked their account after getting piled on by Ngo’s followers.
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Whether the target is a children's hospital* or now this middle school, conservatives sure do love making bomb threats against kids. They may not actually be interested in protecting kids, as they so often purport, rather that's merely a cop-out to mask their rabidly bigoted condition.

*The individual who issued the threat against Boston Children's Hospital--following falsehoods that it had performed sex change operations (so-called "bottom surgery") on minors perpetuated by connie vermin including, but not limited to, Ted Cruz--just yesterday plead guilty to charges resulting from the threat. If reporting on publicly available FEC data is to be believed, Catherine Leavy donated to Trump and the Republican Party more than 200 times since 2016.
 
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Where's the proof that the victim is, in fact, a biological female? This matters. Conservatives are insistent on this purported detail but they have done nothing to substantiate it. How is anyone supposed to be sure this wasn't a biological female brutally assaulting a transgender girl (who has a penis!) when conservative media keeps hiding evidence to the contrary? One can't know whether to be outraged (because obviously a real male or female assaulting a trans isn't cause for such) without vital facts and the evidence to back them up? We know they lie constantly--entirely without shame--in order to skew the narrative and satisfy the bigoted idiot base, so why would they not be lying here?

Aaaaanywaaaaay...

Predictably, this particular conservative bitchfit rages on:
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Christian Mom lashes out at "PAW Patrol" for introducing non-binary character

The one mom at One Million Moms says Nickelodeon is "pushing an agenda"
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Monica Cole, the one mom at the Christian hate group One Million Moms* (Twitter followers: 4,206), is very angry with the people behind the children’s show “PAW Patrol” for featuring a gender-neutral character… whose gender was never even acknowledged.

For anyone confused, “PAW Patrol” is a very popular show for kids about a boy who manages a crew of skilled dogs who help protect their community. The show now has a spinoff called “Rubble & Crew.”

Last week, queer YouTuber Lindz Amer announced that they had written an episode of “Rubble & Crew” that focuses on a new friend named River, who happens to be non-binary.
They brought me on to consult on the first nonbinary character—meet River!!—for the PP universe and write their episode, talk about a bucket list item.

I wanted to write a nonbinary character that was aspirational and incredibly cool, someone for the pups (and kids at home) to look up to. They found an awesome non-binary actor (@cihang_ma) to voice River and I’m so so happy about how it turned out. Swipe to peep River’s 🏳️‍⚧️ kicks! 👟
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If that sounds perfectly innocuous, it’s because it is. Just look at this short clip in which River helps the dogs take a picture of a shooting star.



At no point does River’s gender come into play. The character may be non-binary, but it’s irrelevant to the plot.

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And yet Cole is furious about it (because it’s the only emotion she possesses):
Though River’s gender is not mentioned openly in the episode, Amer’s social media information makes it difficult for Nickelodeon to deny their intentions. Plus, the character gives subtle hints, including the transgender pride flag’s pink, white, and light blue color scheme displayed on socks and shoes.

Obviously, River is a blatant attempt by Nickelodeon to normalize children identifying as non-binary.

The Nickelodeon that parents knew as children is long gone. Nickelodeon has now decided to be politically correct instead of providing family-friendly programming. But Nickelodeon should stick to entertaining, not pushing an agenda.
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That’s the Christian equivalent of a conspiracy theorist’s evidence board. Cole is just a deranged person looking for reasons to be offended. There isn’t a single kid who would watch that show and come away with any thought beyond, “That River character seems awesome!” Which, to be fair, is exactly what Cole is afraid of. If there’s a positive depiction of anyone who doesn’t fit a traditional gender role, her mind jumps immediately to indoctrination.

Monica won’t be satisfied until she can see that character’s fictional genitalia. For science.

One Million Moms* is now calling for followers to send angry letters to Nickelodeon under the assumption that the network hates Christians:
I do not agree with the LGBTQ agenda you are pushing on families in either of the animated series of Paw Patrol and Rubble & Crew. My family and I will not watch this indoctrination. Nickelodeon has left conservative and Christian families with no choice but to avoid Paw Patrol and Rubble & Crew since both shows go against our beliefs and values. My family will not support Nickelodeon; you have lost our trust.
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If you get offended by a children’s TV show for portraying friendship and cooperation, then the problem is you. No one will notice an “agenda” in this episode unless they’re actively searching for a reason to be angry.

In Cole’s ideal world, LGBTQ people wouldn’t exist and no one would ever acknowledge them. Her version of neutrality is bigotry. I’ve seen plenty of shows with a husband and wife and I never saw it as promoting straightness. But Cole sees a kids’ show with a character whose gender is undefined and thinks the network wants to turn her kids queer. Because she’s a lunatic.

It’s important to note that One Million Moms* is affiliated with the American Family Association, a hate group currently being sued by a former employee for ignoring same-sex sexual misconduct and retaliating against a possible whistleblower.

Cole should be far more concerned about what’s happening within her group than she is about the person a bunch of fictional dogs are befriending.
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"Monica won’t be satisfied until she can see that character’s fictional genitalia. For science."

These rats are creepy beyond comprehension.

So what if Nickelodeon attempts to "normalize children identifying as non-binary"? It won't make children decide that they are. So have your little boycott (emphasis on little given the size of your group)--that's free expression and association--but know that it's every bit as pathetic as you are.
 
Monica should be asking whether or not the members of the Paw Patrol are spayed and neutered if she's interested in animated genitalia.
 
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Schools Report Bomb Threats Following Libs of Tiktok Anti-LGBTQ Posts

Almost a dozen schools or school districts contacted by VICE News reported a surge in bomb threats and harassment following the posts.
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At least eleven schools or school districts that were targeted by the account “Libs of TikTok” over anti-LGBTQ grooming conspiracies last month received bomb threats just days later.

“Libs of TikTok”, helmed by former real-estate agent Chaya Raichik, has positioned itself as a vigilante crusader against “wokeness” in schools and culture—and has been heavily criticized as being a smokescreen for denigrating LGBTQ people.

Raichik, via Libs of TikTok, solicits “tips'” from her 2.5 million followers on [Twitter], ranging from Pride flags being displayed in classrooms, gender queer teachers, or stocking library books that contain information about gender identity or sexual orientation, and then puts those schools or school districts on blast.

Libs of TikTok has played a central role in fomenting the war on “grooming”—which is the right-wing label applied to any form of education or entertainment that incorporates queer themes. The account has risen in influence as many mainstream Republicans have actively campaigned against and enacted policies chipping away at LGBTQ rights over the past several years. Raichik dined with former president Donald Trump earlier this year, and members of Congress routinely engage with Libs of TikTok posts—as do far-right groups, including neo-Nazis.

It’s perhaps not exactly surprising that schools or individuals who are “featured” on Libs of TikTok end up facing a barrage of trolls and harassment. Last summer, hospitals — Boston Children’s Hospital in particular— were besieged by bomb threats after Libs of TikTok and similar accounts obsessively highlighted the fact that they offer gender-affirming care to transgender youths. (Last week, a 37-year-old woman from Westfield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to charges linked to calling in a hoax bomb threat to the hospital).

But bomb threats targeting schools or school districts following Libs of TikTok posts appears to be a particularly ominous escalation. Raichik, in a series of emails with VICE News, would not say if she felt any responsibility for the threats, and instead insinuated the threats had nothing to do with her or her followers. She then posted the email chain to her followers on her personal account on [Twitter], which was then amplified by the Libs of TikTok account.

VICE News reached out to all 42 school districts, schools, colleges, businesses and event organizers that were mentioned in Libs of TikTok posts in September.

The majority didn’t respond, and only three school districts said that they hadn’t received bomb threats as a result of being featured in a Libs of TikTok post (one of those, a school district in North Kansas City, Missouri, was targeted when a transgender high school senior was crowned Homecoming Queen. She bore the brunt of the threats and harassment).
But the 11 schools or school districts that did report receiving bomb threats indicate a disturbing pattern:
Western Heights ISD in Oklahoma City was targeted in three Libs of TikTok posts between September 9 and 14. During that time frame, Oklahoma’s state superintendent of education posted a photo with Raichik and praised her as doing “more for transparency and accountability in schools than most elected officeholders.” An elementary school in Western Heights ISD received a bomb threat on September 15.

Witchcraft Heights Elementary School in Salem, Massachusetts, was targeted in a Libs of TikTok post on September 12. The school received emailed bomb threats on September 15, 19, and 21, prompting evacuations. Salem Police Captain John Burke told local news that all three emails “followed a similar MO” and his agency was working with state and federal agencies to investigate the threats.

Anoka-Hennepin School District in Minnesota was targeted in Libs of TikTok posts on September 13 and 14. They received a bomb threat by email on September 15. The district’s director of communications Jim Skelly told VICE News that it was unusual for the district to receive threats directly by email such as this one. This was the second direct threat that the district, which is Minnesota’s largest, received in the last two years. More commonplace threats usually come from students or are made via social media and are quickly processed as “non-credible” by law enforcement, said Skelly.

Red Oak School, an elementary school in a suburb of Chicago, was featured in a Libs of TikTok post on September 15. The elementary school received three threats over the course of four days. Children were evacuated from the school following the first two threats. A spokesperson for the North Shore School District, which encompasses Red Oak, told VICE News that the last time the school district received a bomb threat was 25 years ago.
Davis Joint Unified School District in California was targeted in two separate Libs of TikTok posts on September 19 and 22, and received bomb threats on September 20 and September 25. On both occasions, the threats indicated that bombs had been placed at the homes of school district officials and in certain schools in the district. The threats caused both schools to delay start times so police could search for possible explosive devices.

Pulaski High School in Wisconsin was targeted in a Libs of TikTok post on September 20. The school was evacuated on September 22 and again on September 26 due to two separate bomb threats. “Through the course of the investigation and working with the other agencies, it is our determination the two email threats originated outside the United States,” the school said in a statement. “The threats seem to be generated due to a variety of controversial social media content across the Nation.”

Brownsville Elementary in Kitsap, Washington, was targeted by Libs of TikTok on September 21. On September 25, the school was evacuated due to an emailed bomb threat. A spokesperson for the local police department told VICE News that they were still investigating the reason for the bomb threat.

Cherry Creek School District, Colorado, was targeted by Libs of TikTok on September 22. They received bomb threats against several schools and administrative buildings that same day.

Denver Public Schools were targeted by Libs of TikTok on September 24. Scott Pribble, head of external communications at Denver Public Schools, spokesperson told VICE News that they received several threats the following day from someone claiming they’d placed a bomb in three of the 12 schools in the district. The email was addressed to the state education department, a couple of local TV stations, and some emails listed on the school district’s website.

Fresno State University and a professor were targeted in a Libs of TikTok post on September 27. The next day, the university and the professor received bomb threats.

Tigard-Tualatin School District in the Portland suburbs was featured in a Libs of TikTok on September 28. A middle school in the district was closed the following Monday after receiving an emailed threat over that weekend of bombings and shootings aimed at teachers, staff and district administrators. Local news reports stated that the FBI traced the threat to an out-of-state source and determined it was not credible.
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This flurry of threats against school districts that were spotlighted by Libs of TikTok coincides with a more general surge in threats, bomb hoaxes and swatting calls against schools. Threats against schools in 2022 were up by 60% compared to the previous year, according to the FBI.

While schools were unable to say for certain whether the threats they received were linked to Libs of TikTok, citing ongoing police investigations, many noted that the level of threat received was highly unusual.

Some of those who were targeted by Libs of TikTok in September who didn’t receive bomb threats instead reported vicious harassment, doxxing, and intimidation. Erika, a school bus driver in the Pittsburgh area, told VICE News that her life was turned upside down when a screenshot from her private Facebook account made its way to Libs of TikTok. The post showed a sheet of stickers she’d ordered, which included Pride flags and innocuous slogans like “all humans are beautiful,” “this is a safe space,” and “love always wins” in rainbow font. “I got new stickers!” Erika wrote in the Facebook post, adding a smiley face emoji. “Gonna get some magnet sheets so I can turn ‘em into magnets and put them in my bus!”

“Meet Erika, a school bus driver,” Libs of Tiktok wrote in their post on September 5, which now has 358,000 views. “She’s covering her school bus which she uses to transport young children, with trans propaganda. Why would a school bus have signs promoting the sexualization of children?”

Within 24 hours of that post going up, Erika was swarmed by online harassment. A friend informed her she was on an account called Libs of TikTok, which she’d never heard of. When she found the posting, Erika said she was shocked to see it had almost 800 comments underneath it, calling her a groomer, saying she should be fired, and that she was a perfect example for why children should be homeschooled.

She received a handwritten birthday card to her home address, which asked her to refrain from “recruiting minors on the job” into her satanist beliefs.

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Days after the Libs of TikTok post went up, Erika’s supervisor gave her a heads up that the superintendent had been fielding a ton of complaints and had been asked by board members to search her bus and take photos. “There’s sunflowers and butterflies on my bus. I have a few magnets that say ‘be kind’,” said Erika. “I was never reprimanded. They said they’re behind me. They did ask that I do not put any rainbow or allied supportive magnets on display on my bus.”

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“The fact that anyone would think that I would do something that would harm a child or someone that’s marginalized really makes me mad,” said Erika. “It could not be further from the truth. It was so upsetting, and I felt like my head was spinning, everything was so out of control.”

Erika added that her husband suggested they refrain from hanging a Pride flag on the house until this blows over. “But I feel like if we’re not standing up for people who are being targeted, then what are we even doing? How much are we going to tolerate?”
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They're terrorists. It's really as simple as that.
 
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I'm sure any second now Papa Trump will swoop in and rescue one of his fiercest followers. Yup, any second now...

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MyPillow guy Mike Lindell to followers: 'I ran out of money!'

Lindell tells KARE 11 News he hopes to have new lawyers to defend his libel cases by the end of the week.
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Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. :lol:
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Two guotes from that article, one I agree with, the other not so much.

"S-C-U-M bag."

"he says that's him, personally, who's broke. He says his company MyPillow is doing fine."

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The article's not available in the UK but this AP story may have something to do with his recent woes. He promised $5 million in the "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" to anyone that could demonstrate his election claims were false. Someone did and he refused to pay up so they went to arbitration and now a judge has ordered him to pay up within 30 days.

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MyPillow founder ordered to pay $5M in election data dispute

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.
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The article's not available in the UK but this AP story may have something to do with his recent woes. He promised $5 million in the "Prove Mike Wrong Challenge" to anyone that could demonstrate his election claims were false. Someone did and he refused to pay up so they went to arbitration and now a judge has ordered him to pay up within 30 days.

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MyPillow founder ordered to pay $5M in election data dispute

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — An arbitration panel has ordered MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell to pay $5 million to a software engineer for breach of contract in a dispute over data that Lindell claims proves that China interfered in the U.S. 2020 elections and tipped the outcome to Joe Biden.
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$5,000,000 is nothing when compared to the defamation suits he is facing.

Hopefully this article isn't geoblocked.
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Lawyers: Election denier, 'MyPillow Guy' Lindell out of money, can't pay legal bills

Attorneys who’ve been defending MyPillow chief executive and election denier Mike Lindell against defamation lawsuits by voting machine companies are seeking court permission to quit
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Aww, Chunkabee...

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Obviously language doesn't "erase women," whatever that means. It can't. But Chunkabee is a connie rat and so this is par for the course. They never seem to run out of ways to show that they're vermin.
 
This'll go over well in Smackover, Arkansas. Good to see she's not afraid to tackle the big issues plaguing her constituents. /s
 
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Rats in the House.

Republicans in the Ohio House of Representatives consider court-stripping an option to prevent the state judiciary from weighing any laws the legislature may pass against new text in the state constitution.

DECEPTIVE OHIO ISSUE 1 MISLED THE PUBLIC BUT DOESN'T REPEAL OUR LAWS

COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio Legislators will be introducing several bills to address this issue in the coming weeks. “Foreign billionaires don't get to make Ohio laws,” said...
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COLUMBUS, OH - Ohio Legislators will be introducing several bills to address this issue in the coming weeks.

“Foreign billionaires don't get to make Ohio laws,” said Jennifer Gross (R-West Chester), pointing to millions from billionaires outside America that helped fund Issue 1. Gross added, “This is foreign election interference, and it will not stand.”

“Issue 1 doesn't repeal a single Ohio law, in fact, it doesn't even mention one,” said Representative Bill Dean (R-Xenia). “The amendment’s language is dangerously vague and unconstrained, and can be weaponized to attack parental rights or defend rapists, pedophiles, and human traffickers.”

Melanie Miller (R-Ashland) said, “We will continue to be a voice for every child in their mother's womb who cannot speak for themselves.”

Representative Beth Lear (R-Galena) stated, “No amendment can overturn the God given rights with which we were born.”

To prevent mischief by pro-abortion courts with Issue 1, Ohio legislators will consider removing jurisdiction from the judiciary over this ambiguous ballot initiative. The Ohio legislature alone will consider what, if any, modifications to make to existing laws based on public hearings and input from legal experts on both sides.
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Vermin.
 
Missed this one.

Among the Republican losers a week ago is a rat seeking another term in the Virginia State Senate what claimed proposed legislation that prohibits abortion after 15 weeks with exceptions isn't actually a ban. In advocating for the proposed legislation--which has failed in effect because opponents retain a majority in the Senate and flipped the House of Delegates--the rat purports that the state permits abortion until birth, a claim that's only accurate insofar as there are health of the mother exceptions to the existing ban after 23 weeks.
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Virginia GOP state Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant says 15-week abortion ban isn't a ban

Dunnavant is facing Democrat Schuyler VanValkenburg in the election for Virginia's 16th state Senate District in November.
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Over eight years in the Virginia Senate, Republican Siobhan Dunnavant has consistently opposed reproductive rights and backed abortion bans. Now, as she faces a tough reelection race in a swing district that could determine the chamber’s majority, Dunnavant is claiming that the 15-week abortion ban she backs is not really a ban.

The November 2023 election will be the first one conducted using new legislative maps after redistricting. Dunnavent is now running in the competitive but blue-leaning 16th Senate District, facing Democratic state Del. Schuyler VanValkenburg.

In August, Dunnavant posted a “Setting the Record Straight: Abortion” page on her campaign site, including a video message in which she discusses her position.

“Virginia law allows abortion until the moment of birth,” she falsely claims. The commonwealth already prohibits abortions after the second trimester of a pregnancy, except when doctors certify that they are needed to protect the life or health of a pregnant woman.

The website goes on to say that Dunnavant’s position is: “Abortion should remain legal for up to 15 weeks. After 15 weeks, there should be reasonable exceptions for rape, incest, life of the mother, and in cases of severe fetal anomalies. Not a ban, but legislation that reflects compassionate common sense.”

A law that bars abortion, even with exceptions, is still a ban.

Dunnvant was elected in 2015 in a solidly Republican district in the suburbs of Richmond, promising to “stand up for pro-life values.” Her record has been staunchly anti-abortion, including votes to defund Planned Parenthood, against public funding for abortions for victims of rape and incest, and against legislation clarifying that birth control is not abortion.

In February 2022, she voted for a 20-week abortion ban that contained very limited exceptions that did not include rape or incest. In January 2023, she said she would have voted for a 15-week ban proposal if it had included an exception in cases of fetuses with severe abnormalities, up to 24 weeks into the pregnancy, according to the Virginia Mercury.

The pro-abortion rights group REPRO Rising Virginia gave her an F rating on its 2023 legislative scorecard.

“Every woman in the Commonwealth deserves to make her own reproductive healthcare decisions alongside her medical provider,” VanValkenburg says on his own site. “As the only pro-choice candidate in SD-16, I promise to vote against extremist bans that threaten to restrict fundamental protections.” He received an A rating from REPRO Rising for 2023 and has been endorsed in the race by NARAL Pro-Choice America.

With all 100 seats in the Republican-controlled House of Delegates and all 40 seats in the Democratic-led Senate up for election in November, the results in competitive districts like the 16th will likely decide whether Virginia remains the only state in the South without an abortion ban.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, whose term ends in 2026, has previously said he “will sign happily and gleefully” any legislation to limit abortion and has proposed a 15-week ban with few exceptions.

While GOP candidates in red-leaning districts have backed Youngkin’s proposal, Republicans nominees in competitive races have been trying to hide their support from voters. In recent weeks, surreptitiously recorded audio of House of Delegates nominees John Stirrup and David Owen has revealed their support for abortion bans, though neither makes any mention of those views on his campaign issues page.

Polls have shown that a majority of Virginia voters do not back new abortion restrictions. In March, a Washington Post-Schar School survey found that just 17% of voters support stricter abortion laws. Thirty-four percent want to maintain current abortion laws, while 41% want less strict laws.
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Pupik
I feel like Control-C and Control-V were pressed a lot in the creation of that article.
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I'm not sure I catch your meaning. I know the keystrokes are to copy and paste, respectively, but I'm not seeing the implied repetition in the text body.
 
TexRex
I'm not sure I catch your meaning. I know the keystrokes are to copy and paste, respectively, but I'm not seeing the implied repetition in the text body.
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Just reads like every piece of Rhetoric I've heard in the last 10-20 years, minus any substantial reasons why they're actually opposed to the bill passage and the will of (other) people.
 
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Daily Wire co-CEO: "If 5 million people came out today and said the N-word -- not recommending it -- but no one would ever get fired for saying the N-word again"

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This whiny bitch: "I'm not recommending anyone say the word that would be destigmatized if five million people said it today."

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What?

Say, what is this "n-word," anyway, Jer? Why do these pussies abbreviate it when they think they should be able to say it without social repercussions? If you want to destigmatize it, should you not be saying it outright?

Mental. Illness.
 

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