Top 10 Conservative Idiots #12-11: Wheel Of Corruption: Let There Be Carnage Edition

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Top 10 Conservative Idiots #12-11: Wheel Of Corruption: Let There Be Carnage Edition

Welcome back to the Top 10 Conservative Idiots! Yo what’s up Orlando? How are you guys doing? Are you doing fucking good? Great! So we started Round 2 of Stupidest State which means the conference championships are happening! Man did anyone see that matchup between Tennessee and Indiana coming? That was ridiculous! But this season has been full of great matchups. Anyway we got the famous Wheel Of Corruption here ready to do business and the wheel is polished and ready! Do we have time for the thing? Of course we do! This week let’s talk about one of my favorite people, Jack White. You know he’s got his new album called Fear Of The Dawn which is excellent if you haven’t heard it yet. Well, anyway he got married last week in the most Jack White way possible. So he was playing a sold out show at Detroit’s famous Masonic Temple on the first show of his Supply Chain Issues tour, and it was his first show in four years. Anyway he brings up on stage his longtime girlfriend Olivia Jean and proposes to her halfway through the White Stripes classic song “Hotel Yorba”. Then – they go and literally get married during the song. Not only that, he’s got a second album coming out later this year called “Entering Heaven Alive”. Man if only we could put out that kind of output in a year and do something crazy like that on stage. We have one hour a week at that coveted Thursday at 2:00 PM time slot! We’re pulling down… what? Comedy podcast money? If only we could be Jack White. Lol. OK enough of my rambling, we have a lot of idiocy to get to, but first John Oliver is back and he delves into the issue of cybersecurity and throws it back at the people who made data harvesting possible:

So the Wheel is back and where do we begin this week? In the number one slot this week is of course Vladimir Putin (1). Yes, the premier Russian warlord has stepped very deeply into it and it is costing Russia big time – especially in the area of trade where it is no longer a “favored nation” due to the ongoing illegal occupation of the Ukraine. In the second slot this week is the Secret Service (2) because of a scandal unfolding that is way too bizarre to be believed, but in this day and age it’s totally predictable because of Biden Derangement Syndrome. In the third slot this week is Marjorie Greene (3) because Q Anon’s favorite congresswoman apparently can’t take a joke and is taking it out on late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel because, reasons. Expect Jimmy to fire back on all fours. In the number 4 slot this week is Truth Social (4). Yes, Trump’s social media experiment is proving to be quite the colossal disaster, like most things that Trump puts his name on. Speaking of social media, in the number 5 slot this week is Elon Musk (5). Yes, the Tesla CEO channeled his inner Bond villain by buying a controlling stake in Twitter, which prompted speculation that he would let Trump back on the platform, but now is maybe thinking that would be a terrible idea. In the number 6 slot this week is of course our weekly visit to the Holy Church Of The Top 10 in Holy Shit (6) and this week we’re talking about Q Anon as a substitute for religion – and their so-called “prophets” are just as batshit insane as you might expect them to be! Our resident pastor is going to need a strong shot of holy water after this one! In the number 7 slot this week, we have a new “Beating A Dead Horse” (7) – Another week, another MAGA boycott and this week, their fighting with Disney over Florida’s extremely controversial “Don’t Say Gay” bill is reaching ridiculous proportions! In the number 8 slot this week is a new Conspiracy Corner (8) and wait until you hear the latest batshit insane theory about Space Force. Wow, the Q nuts have really gone off the deep end with this one! In the number 9 (NEIN!!!) slot this week we have a new People Are Dumb (9) but this week it’s one of our famous all Florida editions! Because Florida Man always has crazy stories to report, but we may have the Florida Man story to end all Florida Man stories this week! Finally this week, we have Stupidest State 2022 (10)! This week it’s Round 2 Week 1 which means it’s the Gun Nut Conference championships! Texas battles red hot underdogs Missouri for a spot in the Final Four and it’s going to be one for the ages! Plus as the palate cleanser, we have some live music from the man, the myth, the legend that is the great Weird Al Yankovic joining us! Enjoy! And as always don’t forget the key!

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[font size="8"]Vladimir Putin
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Of course you know the rules by now – I spin the wheel and we have to talk about whatever it lands on. Of course if it lands on the guacamole option, you know that it costs $1.50 extra. And the wheel is all new with lots of items on it! Here’s what is on the wheel this week:

- Guns
- Abortion
- Crime
- Poverty
- Capitol Riots
- Treason
- Buy A Vowel
- Whammy
- Food
- Elections
- Nazi Germany
- The Border
- Donald Trump
- The GOP
- Clip Without Context
- Death
- Fox News
- COVID-19
- Something Random In The News
- ‘Merica!
- Chance
- 5,000
- Homosexuality
- The US Constitution
- Russia
- Clip Without Context
- Top 10 Investigates
- Conspiracy Corner
- Morally Bankrupt
- Guacamole
- My Pillow
- Holy Shit
- Beating A Dead Horse
- This Fucking Guy
- How Is This Still A Thing?
- Red State Diaries
- Intermission
- Double Whammy
- 10,000
- People Are Dumb
- I Need A Drink
- Infowars
- Go Directly To Jail
- T-Shirt Cannon
- Lightning Round
- Bonus Spin

So with all that, let’s get going! Spin that shit! Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! Hey it’s one of our patented Clips Without Context!

Yeah at that point you might as put the robes on and call yourself a Grand Wizard and get it over with already. Let me look at the list of popular country music stars – there’s white guy, white guy, white guy, white woman, white woman, white woman… I could go on and on. Spin it again! Russia! You know that premiere Russian warlord Vladimir Putin is currently becoming one of the most increasingly hostile threats the world has ever seen. While he’s taking over the Ukraine, his troll army is busy pitting countries against each other over social media propaganda. And his plan is working. Unfortunately, it’s costing Russia big time, not just economically, but it’s now costing Russia on the world stage. The world is finally waking up to Pooty’s evil deeds and while Putin wants to take over the world, he may not live long enough to see it. And that’s before his evil deeds start taking their toll on Mother Russia. In fact here’s more.

Congress on Thursday voted to revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” trade status, an economic downgrade that opens the door to damaging new tariffs on Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine.

The House passed the bill in an overwhelming 420-3 vote, sending it to President Joe Biden’s desk. The Senate approved the same version of the legislation in a unanimous 100-0 vote taken earlier Thursday.

The three members of Congress who opposed the effort to strip Russia’s favored status were Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Matt Gaetz of Florida, all Republicans who strongly align themselves with former President Donald Trump.

The bill, known as HR 7108, is a formal step to sever normal trade relations with Russia and Belarus — one of the Kremlin’s closest allies — and allow import controls on key products like platinum, chemicals, iron and steel.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/07/senate-votes-to-strip-russia-of-most-favored-nation-trade-status.html

Thank you Nelson! Yeah so Putin’s evil misdeeds are costing Mother Russia big time and it’s only going to get worse for him. The bad thing is that when you punish Putin, you’re also punishing the people of Russia, a lot of whom don’t want anything to do with Putin’s illegal invasion and occupation of the Ukraine. But right now I’m very thankful to have Joe Biden as our president because he is handling the Ukraine situation better than anyone could have expected. Just think what would happen if we had Trump in charge. No, as a matter of fact, let’s not.

President Biden declared Tuesday that Russia was committing a “genocide” in Ukraine, a significant escalation of the president’s rhetoric and a notable shift that comes as U.S. officials have avoided using the term. The comment initially came at an event in Menlo, Iowa, where Biden was decrying the effects of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on gas and food prices.

“Your family budget, your ability to fill up your tank, none of it should hinge on whether a dictator declares war and commits genocide a half a w orld away,” Biden said. He later told reporters he had intentionally used the word genocide in his speech, though he added that he would “let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies.” But he said, “It sure seems that way to me."

Genocide is generally defined as an effort to destroy an entire nation or group. “It’s become clearer and clearer that Putin is trying to wipe out the idea of being Ukrainian," Biden said. "The evidence is mounting. It looks different than last week. More evidence is coming out literally of the horrible things that the Russians have done in Ukraine.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded by tweeting, “True words of a true leader.” He added, “Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for US assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities.” Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, have both stopped short of describing Russia’s assault as a genocide in recent days.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/12/biden-calls-russias-war-ukraine-genocide/

Thank you Mr. President! See? This is why we need a competent leader in the White House right now during this horrendous time. Because Biden is telling it like it is and Putin needs to be taken down more than a few kegs. The sooner he and his troll army are wiped from existence, the better. But the US is finding new allies too – even Japan has had enough of Putin’s bullshit and is deciding to put the smackdown on Russia. The thing is that Vladimir Putin needs to be stopped before he steamrolls all of Europe. He’s essentially Hitler version 2.0.

The Japanese government is set to revoke Russia's "most-favored nation" trade status as part of additional sanctions over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

NHK has learned that the government will announce the move on Wednesday following a decision by Prime Minister Kishida Fumio.

US President Joe Biden announced the same measures on Friday, while the leaders of the Group of 7 nations issued a joint statement pledging to move to deny Russia "most-favored nation" status.

The measures mean Russian imports to those countries will be subject to higher tariffs.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220316_09/

Come on! Even Mr. Burns is against Russia! So as the world continues to see what an absolute monster Vladimir Putin is, it’s costing Putin big time. He cannot keep up this ridiculous and illegal war on the Ukraine much longer. Because not only is Russia continuing to get its’ ass kicked, it’s also costing both Putin and the Russian people big time. You know the saying about how it takes a century to build something and then some jackass comes in with a wrecking ball and ruins it in 5 minutes? Well Putin is that jackass. The sooner he’s wiped from the world, the better.

World leaders Thursday reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with raw outrage — and vows of unprecedented sanctions — that shrouded a sense of powerlessness to defend Ukraine militarily without running the risk of a wider war in Europe.

NATO had already reinforced its eastern flank facing Russia and planned a virtual summit of its leaders on Friday after President Vladimir Putin warned that any interference from other countries would lead to “consequences you have never seen in history.”

European Union and NATO member Lithuania declared a state of emergency since the Baltic nation borders Russia’s Kaliningrad region to the southwest and Russia’s ally Belarus to the east. NATO countries had 100 jets and 120 ships on high alert as a deterrent.

“Make no mistake: We will defend every ally against any attack on every inch of NATO territory,” said NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-business-asia-europe-united-nations-8744320842fca825ae4e4ccae5acbe34

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[font size="8"]Fake Secret Service Agents
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Let’s spin the wheel shall we? Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! And it lands on… Something Random In The News!

Amongst hundreds of thousands of muddy spuds, a World War II-era grenade was picked up on a conveyor belt at an Auckland potato factory earlier this week.

The old Mills bomb grenade, which has since been confirmed as being a training grenade that didn't contain explosives, is believed to have been dug up during harvesting on a farm in Matamata.

Mr Chips factory operations manager Roland Spitaels said the mud-covered device was spotted on a conveyor belt full of freshly harvested potatoes in the early hours of the morning.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/grenade-found-among-the-spuds-on-auckland-chip-factory-conveyor-belt/E5RPCJYU2DGC5N6HKKELDGU6IA/

Excuse me a minute… spin it again! And it lands on… Treason. Well maybe this is not specifically defined in the Constitution as treason but it’s definitely borderline here. As we were putting together last week’s edition, I got this story across my desk about a potentially huge scandal developing in the Capitol Beltway about the fact that there might have been fake Secret Service agents protecting Joe Biden. Yeah remember the funeral scene in the Dark Knight when Commissioner Gordon is giving the speech and then all of a sudden a guy who looks like the Joker appears among the firing squad? Yeah picture that scenario happening in real life. The thing is that the Former Guy has been touting about the “fake” and “stolen” election for well over a year and a half now. But what this latest development paints is that they’re desperate. Who knows how compromised the federal government is with people who are supporters of the Former Guy that would put President Biden in great harm? The easy answer to that question is we don’t know. But it’s a hell of a lot more complicated than that. Yes, we don’t know the answer. But the fact that Former Guy had people on the inside of the Secret Service that were exposed is extremely troubling.

In a memo arguing that the two men should remain detained pending trial, prosecutors wrote that Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali compromised federal law enforcement operations and created a potential risk to national security. "The Defendants were not merely playing dress-up," prosecutors wrote in the memo filed on Friday. "They had firearms, they had ammunition, they had body armor, they had tactical gear, they had surveillance equipment."

Taherzadeh and Ali were arrested earlier this week and charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents for more than two years. They gave expensive gifts to federal agents and provided them apartments in Washington, DC, according to the detention memo. Taherzadeh allegedly offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a Secret Service agent on the first lady's protective detail, according to an affidavit.

The pair were also in possession of "immigration documents for a number of individuals," according to the memo from prosecutors, and had significant access to information about other tenants in the Washington, DC, apartment complex where they and a number of law enforcement officials resided, including the electronic access codes and a list of each tenant. In addition, prosecutors said the pair had a machine to make "Personal Identification Verification" cards as well as passport photographs. Witnesses saw Taherzadeh with a PIV card he used to log in to his laptop that had a "DHS" label on it, according to the memo.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a39691215/secret-service-agents-duped-fake-homeland-security/

Yeah really, picture that scenario happening in real life. Holy shit! And you know, maybe it’s just my scam-o-meter that has been overworked in the last two years because we have been flooded with all kinds of scams and junk calls, but anyone offering free stuff like that is automatically suspect. And the more you dig into this story, the weirder it gets. And believe me, we will be covering this story as it develops. But who knows how deep this goes? Yes, that’s what she said.

A pair of phony Homeland Security agents who allegedly infiltrated the highest levels of federal law enforcement and plied agents with lavish gifts were somehow tipped off to their arrest last week, allowing them to stash guns and other items, prosecutors revealed in a new filing on Sunday.

Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36, were arrested last week when cops swarmed the upscale Crossing Apartments in Washington, D.C.’s Navy Yard neighborhood, bringing what appears to be an extraordinary two-year-long ruse to an end.

The pair were charged with false impersonation of a federal officer for allegedly running an elaborate scheme that fooled at least one Homeland Security official and four Secret Service agents working on security details for President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris. The duo allegedly flashed official-looking IDs, carried Glocks, drove black SUVs with flashing lights, and became so friendly with some agents that they put the agents up for free in penthouses at the Crossings and gifted them iPhones, rifles, and drones.
https://news.yahoo.com/somebody-tipped-off-2-fake-212339720.html

Yeah this is like if the Joker were running things, though maybe not dressed in a clown suit. Now here’s where this story gets weird because you knew it was going to. I hate to use the Daily Mail but that was my only resource on this part of the story. The DC police were tipped off about a year ago after the Insurrection. And they apparently did nothing while these sleazebags were cozying up to the new President and First Lady by offering DHS agents free stuff. And come on, there’s some massive red flags in this story.

The apartment unit belonging to one of the two men arrested last week for impersonating Homeland Security agents was searched by Metro Police Department (MPD) officers last year, but the cops left without taking any action.

Arian Taherzadeh's unit 708 was searched by officers with the Metro Police Department on February 26, 2020, according to an incident report exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com.

The new revelation comes as a second motion for detention filing showed more images of items and paraphernalia seized from the five units belonging to Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and his fellow-defendant Haider Sher-Ali, 35.

The additional images include more body armor with 'POLICE' lettering as well as a dynamic entry kit, cigars and more firearms with high-capacity magazines.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10708149/Cops-searched-apartment-fake-DHS-agent-YEAR-ago-did-cozied-USSS.html

That just raises further questions! What were the cigars for? And like I said the further you go down the rabbit hole on this story, the weirder it gets. Yes there were people attempting to use the DHS to get close to the Secret Service detail protecting President Biden. What’s even weirder is that there may be more people involved. Who knows how far this goes? We may be only beginning to scratch the surface, but the fact remains that we think that Trump may have people on the inside of the people protecting President Biden. We will be very closely following these developments.

Federal prosecutors have dubbed two men accused of spending the last two years impersonating federal agents as “practiced liars who perpetrated a long-term deception.”

Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali were in court Friday, facing charges for false impersonation of an officer of the United States. The two are due back in court on Monday.

On April 6, the FBI raided a luxury Navy Yard apartment complex called the Crossing, where Taherzadeh and Ali reside and were arrested.

People who live in the Crossing apartments told WUSA9 that they were personally questioned by the FBI about their neighbors, Taherzadeh and Ali, on Saturday.

“How does someone pretend to be a federal agent and then get away with it for so long?” Billie Garner, a Crossing resident asked. “How can we not run background checks on these people?”
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/fake-federal-agents-in-dc-crossing-first-street-apts-fake-agents/65-bc92b67c-3350-4cbf-af69-5c06071e2249

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[font size="8"]Marjorie Greene
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Let’s give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? Come on no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… stop! Chance!



Cool, I get a Get Out Of Jail Free card! I’ll just put that away for later. Spin it again! And it lands on… Infowars. Oh crap do I really have to talk about Infowars? Make me. OK fine. Well it’s not so much Infowars as it is Infowars’ favorite Congresswoman, Marjorie Taylor Greene (Q – Batshit). Here’s the thing that I have noticed about the MAGA community as closely as we have followed them in the last 5 years. They cannot take a joke. They have no sense of humor whatsoever. Yeah it’s like the whole Will Smith and Chris Rock debacle. Only with less pimp slapping and more “you’re a fucking idiot” kind of negative feedback. But really they have the nerve to call us “whiny snowflakes who can’t take a joke” but literally they are whiny snowflakes who can’t take a joke. As is evidence with our good friend Marjorie Taylor Greene. Remember when Trump had that massive feud with Alec Baldwin over his Saturday Night Live impersonation? Yeah this is that only with a member of Congress who is certifiably batshit insane and a late night talk show host who enjoys being the butt of their jokes.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she has filed a complaint against Jimmy Kimmel with the Capitol Police over a joke, and she apparently isn’t kidding.

The Georgia Republican tweeted a clip of Kimmel from the late-night host’s Tuesday monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in which the comic said of Greene, “This woman, Klan mom, is especially upset with the three Republican senators who said they’ll vote yes on Ketanji Brown Jackson, who’s nominated for the Supreme Court. She tweeted, ‘Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for KBJ.’ Wow, where is Will Smith when you really need him?”

Greene’s tweet included her written message, “@ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been filed with the @CapitolPolice.”

Last night, Kimmel responded with a tweet of his own, retweeting Greene’s tweet and writing, “Officer? I would like to report a joke.”

The Capitol Police have not yet confirmed Greene’s complaint.
https://deadline.com/2022/04/marjorie-taylor-greene-jimmy-kimmel-slap-joke-capitol-police-1234996269/

These people are seriously Cartman. They talk a lot of trash. But that’s all they have. But unlike most insult comics, they can dish it out but they sure as hell can’t take it. Hell, Cartman gets so much as a tap on the shoulder and he starts crying. That’s Marjorie Greene. Now look no one loves a good beef more than I do. And this is definitely one of the beefiest beefs I’ve ever seen! And like most comics who know a thing or two about dishing it out, Jimmy Kimmel decided to have some fun with this, which is why I love him for that!

Last week, Jimmy Kimmel teed off on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)—who believes that the Jews control the weather with a space laser and compared wearing a mask during the pandemic to the Holocaust—for reporting him to the Capitol police over a joke made at her expense. (The joke: “Where is Will Smith when you really need him?”)

The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host revisited the hullabaloo on Monday night’s show.

“Meanwhile, I had a whole thing with Marjorie Taylor Greene and the Temple of Dumb this weekend,” Kimmel explained. “You may have heard: The congress-monster is not happy about a comment I made about her on the show. She even called the cops on me. Me, she would like arrested, but the people who attacked the Capitol? It’s time to drop that already.”

The late-night comedian then threw to a clip of Greene speaking to a reporter on Capitol Hill and saying of the Jan. 6 insurrection that left several people dead in an attempt to overthrow the presidential election, “You know what I think? I think the American people are fed up with this overdramatization of a riot that happened here at the Capitol one time.”
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/jimmy-kimmel-unloads-accused-sex-051312534.html

Ha ha ha ha… no offense to Jimmy but I’m seriously calling next week’s “Marjorie Greene and the Temple Of Dumb”. Seriously, making fun of the MAGAs is like shooting fish in a barrel. It’s basically the ultimate circular firing squad. Like you know how the Taliban, ISIS, and al’Qaeda are famous for not having a sense of humor? Well, the MAGAs fall very firmly into that group. But again the whole debate of Jimmy Kimmel vs Marjorie Greene is a lot like the Will Smith and Chris Rock debacle – who had the worse action? Ready! Aim! Pull!

The other night, Jimmy Kimmel joked, “Where is Will Smith when you really need him?” after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) branded anyone who supported Biden Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as “pro-pedophile.” MTG, who loves calling liberals “snowflakes,” then said she’d reported the late-night host to the @CapitolPolice over the dumb joke, as one does.

On Thursday night, Kimmel responded to MTG allegedly reporting him to the D.C. police over a joke.

“What a day—I have to tell you. What a night and what a day. I have the weirdest life. I really do. Once again, I find myself in the middle of a brouhaha, as I appear to have run afoul of probably the worst woman in American politics,” said Kimmel. “Marjorie Taylor Greene, the congressperson from the 14th District of Georgia, is unhappy. She’s specifically unhappy with me.”

“She called the police and reported this. Not only did she call the police—she called the same police she voted against giving a congressional gold medal to for defending our Capitol against the insurrection she helped incite on Jan. 6. That’s who she called—the people she wanted to defund.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jimmy-kimmel-fires-back-at-sociopath-marjorie-taylor-greene-for-reporting-him-to-the-police

Yeah that’s the fucking irony – Marjorie Greene is requesting to seek the protection of the Capitol Police after denying them funding after they got the shit beat out of them during the Capitol Insurrection. And don’t think for a minute that we can’t look this stuff up! It’s all there! But she must be getting nervous because either she’ll be named in January 6th insurrection or she’ll be voted out of office in November because the people are tired of her antics. So yeah she talks a lot of shit, but we’re hoping that her days are numbered!

A federal judge has indicated that an attempt to stop the far-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene running for re-election will be allowed to proceed.

The challenge from a group of Georgia voters says Greene should be disqualified under the 14th amendment to the US constitution, because she supported insurrectionists who attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

A similar challenge in North Carolina, against Madison Cawthorn, another prominent supporter of Donald Trump, was blocked.

But on Friday Amy Totenberg, a federal judge in Georgia, said she had “significant questions and concerns” about the ruling in the Cawthorn case, CNN reported.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/11/marjorie-taylor-greene-judge-ruling-far-right-republican-reelection

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[font size="8"]Truth Social
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Let’s give the wheel a nice, strong spin shall we? And it lands on…. Come on, no whammy no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP! Hey, it’s one of our patented clips without context!

You do realize that this is cancel culture, right, Hipster Jesus? But yeah let’s go after Disney. Can’t have an independent thought in the cult. Holy crap these people are crazy. Spin it again! And it lands on… social media! You know that if you’re in this audience, you already know that there’s a long list of failed products that bear the Trump logo. Trump Steaks. Trump Vodka. Trump Casinos. Trump Airlines. Trump Bottled Water. Trump University. Now we can add Trump Social Media to the list. That’s right – Truth Social, the media platform created by Trump and former national security risk, er, advisor Devin Nunes (Q – Batshit). It’s funny to think that these people were actually in charge of NATIONAL SECURITY. Hell, I wouldn’t trust them to run security at an ATM. Anyways, like most products bearing the Trump name, Truth Social was a colossal failure, and I’m not at all shocked that it happened that way. And I love that Business Insider referred to it as a “conservative ghost town that’s been overrun by bots”. Now, Trump is treating Truth Social the same way he treats Big Mac wrappers and umbrellas – he throws them on the ground and expects someone else to clean up his mess for them. Here’s how bad it is – and this exactly what happens when you put a bunch of pissed off, incompetent tech advisors in a room and expect them to come up with something, anything.

Former U.S. president Donald Trump launched his social media app Truth Social in February with great fanfare and bombastic rhetoric about creating a free-speech powerhouse in an effort to supplant his once favorite platform Twitter. But just six weeks later, these lofty ambitions appear to be crumbling, and the app is looking like a loser.

Conceived after the former president was booted from mainstream social media outlets, Truth Social brands itself as a “big tent” platform for people of all ideological stripes. Users note its striking resemblance to Twitter, with the main difference being a higher character limit and posts called “truths” instead of tweets.

The ex-POTUS chairs the company behind True Social, Trump Media & Technology Group. Founded in early 2021, the enterprise has attracted over $1 billion in financing and managed to go public via a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company. But contrary to its goals of “rival[ing] the liberal media consortium”, it might be headed in the (southward) direction of some of Trump’s other business ventures such as Trump Steaks and Trump Shuttle.

Data from our parent company Thinknum Alternative Data shows that its App Store rating count (often used as a proxy for downloads) has been at a plateau for the past few weeks. Correspondingly, the stock price of its parent company has tumbled, now sitting at less than half of where it was at its peak just over a month ago.
https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/truth-social-Trump-app-not-winning/

Except we can all agree that Trump isn’t exactly taking lessons from Master Yoda here. Because let’s face it, Truth Social is a colossal disaster. And just like he ran the White House, the executive directors of the company are treating the position like it’s a revolving door. And yet Trump wants to be back in the White House? He could barely run his social media company. Really it’s mind boggling to think that he could be running the country again in 2024. I wouldn’t trust him to run a McDonalds.

Top executives from Former President Donald Trump’s social media venture, Truth Social, have departed the company as the site has struggled to gain traction with users.

Three top executives quit Truth Social, including chief technology officer, Josh Adams and Billy Boozer, the head of the company’s product development, and chief legal officer, Lori Heyer-Bednar, according to two people familiar with the matter. Reuters first reported the departures of Adams and Boozer.

Trump has been upset with the state of his social media venture, Truth Social, and is eyeing major shake-ups to the company, including positions on the board of Truth Social’s parent company, Trump Media and Technology Group, according to one of those people familiar with the matter and a separate person as well.

Trump’s frustration comes as the site has struggled mightily upon launch, with low traffic and persistent tech glitches. It is also now suffering from personnel issues too — neither Adams nor Heyer-Bednar list their job titles with Truth Social on their personal profiles, despite previously having listed it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/04/04/trump-social-media-staff-exodus-00022706

That sounds more like him. But of course if you listen to the idiots actually running Truth Social, you wouldn’t know that. They’re in full blown “nothing to see here, please disperse” mode. Because when you’re down on your luck, you go to the place where everyone knows your name. No, I’m not referring to Cheers. I’m referring to Fox News, because if you say exactly what the cult wants to hear, they will not only eat it up, they’ll actually believe it! You know the old saying – with friends like these, who needs enemies?

Devin Nunes, the former California congressman who left his old job to run former President Donald Trump's new social media app Truth Social, previously said that the beleaguered app would be fully operational by the end of March. After the app had a "soft launch" in February that was plagued by various glitches and a very long wait list, Nunes said the goal was for the app to be fully rolled out to American users by March 31. March 31 came and went: The wait list is still very long, and in recent days, not one, not two, but three separate unflattering reports have emerged on the job Nunes left Congress for.

The Daily Beast reviewed data from an analytics firm and found that Truth Social is now seeing just 8,000 downloads a day, which is down from a peak of 170,000. Furthermore, the app is only the 355th most popular app among Apple device users. According to the Daily Beast, several lesser-known alternate social media sites are handily beating Truth Social in downloads.

Reuters subsequently reported Monday that two key executives with an actual background in tech — Josh Adams and Billy Boozer — have resigned. One source familiar with Truth Social told Reuters that Adams was the "brains" of the app's technology, and “if Josh has left… all bets are off." A third report from BBC highlights how Truth Social's launch has been perceived by onlookers. An unnamed "Republican ally" of Trump's told the publication, "Nobody seems to know what's going on." Joshua Tucker, the director of NYU's Center for Social Media and Politics, said of the app: "It's been a disaster."
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216561165

And by the way, in the MAGA influencer world, not getting an invite to Truth Social is like not getting an invite to your third cousin’s destination wedding at a remote mountain resort in Maine. You know that you’re not going to actually attend, but you’re pissed if you don’t get the invite. Seriously, Trump himself hasn’t posted on his own platform yet. But while Truth Social may have lit the MAGA world on fire for a brief period, there might be a new contender emerging for the king of the far right social media world. Yes, we talk shit about Gab, Parler, Dlive, and Telegram but this might be the platform to watch for extremists.

On Sunday night, former President Donald Trump finally launched Truth Social, the social media platform he promised last year, on the Apple App Store. Truth Social describes itself as a “platform that encourages an open, free, and honest global conversation without discriminating against political ideology.” The site takes after Twitter, which banned Trump following the Capitol riot, and was created using an open-source software for building independent social media networks called Mastodon. Instead of “tweets” and “retweets,” posts and shares on the site are called “Truths” and “ReTruths.”

Truth Social quickly shot to the top of the App Store’s most popular downloads list, and still holds the No. 1 spot as of Wednesday. This is despite the fact that there were reportedly a ton of bugs, a 13-hour outage, and an extremely long waitlist to actually get on the platform. (The app told me I was No. 406,296 in line.) Though there appears to be quite a bit of demand for the app, Truth Social joins a crowded field of other alternative “free speech” social networks that are jockeying to be the main hub for conservatives who are spurning Big Tech. Truth Social received 170,000 downloads during its first day online, though its user base is tougher to determine given the waitlist situation. It’s certainly impressive, but has a long way to go to catch up with the likes of Parler (11.3 million downloads and 20 million users), Gettr (6.7 million downloads and 4 million users), and Rumble (4.6 million downloads and 30 million users).
https://slate.com/technology/2022/02/truth-social-donald-trump-rival-mewe.html

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Spin it again! And it lands on… social media. Folks, unless you were living under a rock last week, you know that Tesla and Space X CEO and extreme far right weirdo Elon Musk bought a $2 billion stake in Twitter. And like most bad ideas, his advisors probably told him that his questioning of “social media censorship” and “shadow banning” was probably a bad idea. But remember that episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia where they were attempting to emulate the A Team formula with Charlie being the proverbial “wild card”? Well that’s exactly what Elon Musk is – he’s that wild card. And if he’s on your board of directors, that could probably be a really bad thing. Wild cards are definitely meant for action movies and sitcoms whether it’s the Fast and Furious or it’s Guardians Of The Galaxy. But you know what they’re not meant for? The board room.

In the last two years, Twitter has dealt with an activist investor, an egocentric figure with tens of millions of followers pushing the limits on its platform and an eccentric billionaire leader attempting to improve the product while juggling multiple companies.

Now, Twitter appears to have all three at once, more or less, in one person: Elon Musk. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO sparked a deluge of headlines last week after disclosing that he'd become Twitter's largest shareholder. A day later, the company said it would add him to its board of directors for a two-year term — a move Musk welcomed on Twitter. But the saga took another turn Sunday night, when Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said in a tweet that Musk would not be joining the board after all.
"We were excited to collaborate and clear about the risks," Agrawal said, adding that Musk shared on Saturday morning, when his appointment to the board was set to be effective, that he would no longer be joining. "I believe this is for the best."

These stunning developments put Twitter, a company that is certainly no stranger to corporate chaos, in uncharted waters. The world's richest man — who is known both for his ambitious and innovative spirit and for his erratic and trollish behavior — appears interested in shaking things up at the company, although his plans aren't exactly clear. And the disclosure of his large stake in the company comes just as Twitter's previously little-known (at least externally) new chief executive, Agrawal, attempts to come out from the shadow of Jack Dorsey, the platform's founder and longtime public face. Dorsey, who handed over the CEO role in November and plans to exit Twitter's board in May, said last week when the board announcement was made that Agrawal and Musk would "be an incredible team."
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/09/tech/elon-musk-twitter-ceo-governance/index.html

Wild card bitches!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!! Yeah that’s not the person who you want to have on your board of directors. Especially if your platform is currently under scrutiny for “media censorship” – which has long been a talking point of Trump / Fox News fans. Now it’s widely known that Elon is a Red Pill Truther and MAGA superfan. Which immediately puts him in the “garbage person” territory because that’s the kind of people that movement attracts. Which, after Elon made the announcement, it immediately fueled speculation that Trump would be let back on Twitter, and that would be a very bad thing.

Fans of Donald Trump’s Twitter account were disappointed again on Sunday night, after Elon Musk chose not to join Twitter’s board, dashing hopes that he would overturn the former leader’s Twitter ban.

Trump received a permanent Twitter suspension on Jan. 8, 2021, amid concerns that he was using the platform to incite violence. A year later, he remains banned, much to the consternation of supporters who hope to read new 280-character diatribes from the extremely online ex-president. So when Musk, Trump’s fellow Twitter-obsessed one-percenter, announced plans to join the company’s board this month, conservatives begged him to reverse Trump’s ban, as well as those on other suspended right-wing accounts.

But in a shocking Sunday night reversal, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal announced that Musk would not be joining the company’s board, after all. The announcement has left some Trump fans frustrated, or arguing that Musk’s absence was actually a win for Trump.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fans-still-hoping-elon-musk-will-bring-their-emperor-god-back-to-twitter

Yeah come on, right? Letting Trump back on is something that only his deranged fans asked for, and let’s face it – absolutely no good can come of this. The fact that he was even thinking it was a bad idea unto itself! And since the purchase, what has he used the platform for? Accusing celebrities that they’re not tweeting enough. Because nothing attracts customers more than seeing your high profile members getting harassed for not using it enough! Maybe, and I’m just spit balling here, because they have better things to do?

Twitter's newest board member and largest stakeholder Elon Musk tweeted Saturday to ask if the social media network was "dying" and to call out users such as singer Justin Bieber, who are highly followed but rarely post.

"Most of these 'top' accounts tweet rarely and post very little content," the Tesla boss wrote, captioning a list of the 10 profiles with the most followers -- a list which includes himself at number eight, with 81 million followers.

"Is Twitter dying?" he wrote.

Former US President Barack Obama appears at the top with 131 million followers, followed by stars such as Bieber, Katy Perry, Rihanna and Taylor Swift, as well as Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and football star Cristiano Ronaldo, among others.

"For example, @taylorswift13 hasn't posted anything in 3 months," Musk continued.

"And @justinbieber only posted once this entire year."
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220409-twitter-stakeholder-elon-musk-tweets-is-twitter-dying

Way to go there, Elon! Nothing like spending $2 billion just to be a dick, right? Well just like the Joker in the Dark Knight, Elon is an agent of chaos. He’s also a furry cat and a private island fortress away from becoming a James Bond villain. I mean come on, if you’re going to be a real life Ernest Starvo Blofeld, you might as well go all the way, right? But the way to reach out to the Twitter platform to see what needs to be changed is to intimidate your customers, right? At least he made tons of money off of this deal, so what’s a couple billion to throw away?

Musk’s revolving-door trip through Twitter’s boardroom raises two obvious but so far unanswerable questions: what changed? And what happens next?

Let’s take them in turn.

Agrawal’s tweeted explanation for Musk’s change of heart offered several tantalizing hints about what might have happened. There is, for example, the highlighting of a board member’s fiduciary responsibility to shareholders, a responsibility that Musk has so far shown no interest in. It is commonly (and correctly, I think) understood that Musk bought 9.2 percent of Twitter primarily for fun. As a board member Musk would have had to represent the interests of the common shareholder, or at the very least not spooked the markets by tweeting things like “Is Twitter dying?” And I imagine it became clear to him over the past few days that this would be an actual ongoing legal obligation, and would absolutely not be any fun, and that was that.

This may have been particularly pressing for Musk since there seem to be so many legal issues dogging him already, including some related to his large stake in Twitter. For example, he delayed filing a form indicating that he had surpassed a 5 percent stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission as required, allowing him to scoop up 4 percent more of the company at a price much lower than he would have were it known to the world that he were in the process of becoming Twitter’s largest individual shareholder.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/12/23021248/elon-musk-twitter-troll-board-seat-fiduciary-vs-fun

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OK… OK… First off, what… and I cannot emphasize this enough… the fuck??? I don’t know a lot, but I’m pretty sure that vaccines don’t work on human thought. They work on the immune system and that’s about it. Boy these people are getting weirder and weirder, aren’t they? Spin it again! Hey! It’s time for Holy Shit!

Gather around my fair brothers and sisters! It’s time to take a seat in the pew and pass the collection plate, for the Holy Church Of The Top 10 has convened and it’s time to remind you that the holiest among us are the most full of:



My fair congregation! We’ve got a fun one for you this week because we are going to delve into the alternate religion known as Q Anon. That’s right – you know of Q Anon as the batshit crazy cult built around supporters of the Unholy, Ungodly Dark One! I of course speak of a man who is so foul, so depraved and disgusting that his name dare NOT be spoken in my church! But why is there an entire religion built around his nonsense? Well it of course started in the very darkest corners of the online world, like most bad things. Their theories are getting nuttier and nuttier and nuttier. I mean what kind of sick, twisted, and depraved mind do you have to have in order to come up with things like believing that the president was executed and replaced with a body double? That’s some pretty messed up shit and it’s not something that the good LAWRD JAYSUS would believe! But they’re coming out of the basement and into the mainstream!

Alan and Francine Fosdick are full-blown QAnon conspiracy theorists who host a program called “Up Front In The Prophetic,” which has been relentless in promoting truly outrageous conspiracy theories. Francine Fosdick, the source of many of these conspiracy theories, has claimed that President Joe Biden was executed and replaced by an imposter wearing a mask, and she once hosted a prayer call aimed exposing former President Barack Obama’s supposed involvement in child trafficking and uncovering the “true identity” of Michelle Obama as a man.

Despite this, Pennsylvania GOP state Sen. Doug Mastriano, who is currently running for governor, has made multiple appearances on the Fosdicks’ program and even met with them in his office. Later this month, Mastriano and several other Republican candidates for office are scheduled to speak at a “Patriots Arise” event being organized by the Fosdicks in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, April 22 to April 23.

GOP candidates who will be joining Mastriano at the event include Teddy Daniels, who is running for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania; Kathy Barnette, who is running for the U.S. Senate from Pennsylvania; Rick Bowers, who is running for state Senate in Maryland; and Dan Cox, who is running for governor in Maryland.

These candidates will share the stage with the likes of anti-vax QAnon conspiracy theorist Scott McKay (aka “Patriot Streetfighter”), who has repeatedly and openly threatened to kill health care providers.
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/several-gop-candidates-are-joining-qanon-conspiracy-theorists-for-an-event-in-pennsylvania/

Yes the devil most certainly walks among us, and that devil, need I remind you, is the unholy Dark One himself! That man is so foul that he’s attracting the worst of us and he’s enabling the worst of us in society. He worships SAYTAN! Though his followers claim that he’s worshipping JAYSUS, that I can assure, he is not! In fact he has one of the craziest people in that religion as his “spiritual advisor” which, come on, with friends like these, who needs enemies? But his movement is actually gaining in popularity, and that is scary!

The QAnon conspiracy myth movement continues to thrive in the US and has even strengthened more than a year after Donald Trump left the White House, according to the largest ever study of its followers.

Some 22% of Americans believe that a “storm” is coming, 18% think violence might be necessary to save the country and 16% hold that the government, media and financial worlds are controlled by Satan-worshipping pedophiles, according to four surveys carried out last year by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) think tank.

Each of these baseless and bizarre views is a core tenet of QAnon, an antisemitic internet conspiracy theory which held that Trump was waging a secret battle against a cabal of pedophiles and its “deep state” collaborators – a “storm” that would sweep them out of power.

Yet despite his election defeat by Joe Biden, major social media platforms banning QAnon activity and the disappearance of its leader, “Q”, the movement has not gone away. If anything, it has strengthened.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/qanon-believers-increased-america-study-finds

Now here’s the thing – if you want to see where Q Anon mixes with religion, look no further than our old friend, Pastor Greg Locke. Yes, Pastor Locke is a worshipper of the unholy Dark One and has made some ridiculous claims as we have witnessed here. But this might be one of the craziest that we have seen, for he said that he has seen witches! And not only that they are unleashing DAYMONS and that he has some names! Come on, what is this, 2022 or 1692? We all know how badly the original witchcraft trials ended, don’t we?

The offering was over and the worship team at Global Vision Bible Church had just finished singing “Oh How I Love Jesus” when the Rev. Greg Locke began telling his church about his conversations with demons.

Those demons, he said, had revealed the names of a group of “full-blown, spell-casting” witches who’d been sent to infiltrate Global Vision, a nondenominational church east of Nashville, Tennessee, where Locke is pastor.

“To God be the glory, I lie not,” he told the congregation at Global Vision on Sunday, which was meeting in a packed tent on the church’s property. “We got first and last names of six witches that are in our church. And you know what’s strange, three of you are in this room right now.”

Locke told the congregation that he’d gotten the names while casting a demon out of a woman who had recently begun coming to Global Vision. The preacher, known for his sensationalist sermons about politics and COVID-19 skepticism — went on to describe the exorcism in detail, quoting a demon with scruffy voice who accused worshippers at the church of being witches.
https://julieroys.com/tn-preacher-greg-locke-demons-witches-our-church/

Yes according to that guy, everything is a SIN!!! But that said if your church is hosting a Q Anon event, it might be time to report them to the IRS for violating 503 (c) rules. Hey, I know we’re skirting around the rules with this sermon, but fuck it, we’re not a batshit crazy cult! And calling these people “violent lunatics” might be underselling it a bit. Because these people are violent lunatics, and they are getting more violent and insane and radicalized. So if your local church is hosting one of these events, you might want to go to another church!

Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist Trump-loving pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, urged conservatives to start smashing the car windows of anti-fascist activists.

Burns spoke at the ReAwaken America rally in Keizer, Oregon, last weekend, where event organizers claimed that “antifa” protestors outside the event were placing sharp objects under the wheels of attendee’s cars in an effort to pop their tires. While at the event, Burns sat down for an interview on “The Black Conservative Preacher” show, where he insisted that Christians should not turn the other cheek, as Jesus commanded, but rather strike back twice as hard.

“You see an antifa flag, knock out their window,” Burns advocated.

“Forgive me, Jesus,” he then added, facetiously. “Lord, forgive me. I’m asking for forgiveness right now.”

“The Bible says that ‘the Kingdom suffers violence and the violent take it by force,'” Burns declared, quoting Matthew 11. “The problem is we’re being too cowardly and too weak and we think that man has authority over us when we serve a big God who has given us power and authority to tread over every demonic spirit. So, if they’re gonna knock out a window, you go knock out two of theirs.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/maga-candidate-mark-burns-urges-christians-to-smash-the-windows-of-antifa-activists-cars/

Sigh… these lunatics aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact they’re getting louder and crazier, and we will fight their bullshit when we see it! Mass has ended, may you go in peace! That’s it this week for:





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All right, spin it again. And hey it lands on Beating A Dead Horse!



You know there’s too many boycotts out there when Buzzfeed literally has an article about The 16 Most Ridiculous Things Conservatives Tried To Cancel but hey what’s wrong with adding one more to the pile? Their latest beef involves Disney vs their boy Ron DeSantis over Florida’s extremely controversial and draconian “Don’t Say Gay” bill. Which – and here me out on this – who the fuck is teaching about homosexuality and transsexuality in fucking elementary school? It’s truly absurd the depths of depravity that the MAGA world is reaching. And like most bad things in the world, they will have Fox News and Alex Jones cheerleading their misdeeds every step of the way. So what’s the latest in the circular firing squad between Disney, Fox News, and Ron DeSantis? Well there’s a lot and it will take a long time to sort out this mess. It’s definitely not something that will be resolved overnight.

A video of hundreds of protesters gathered outside of Disney headquarters in California has started to go viral on social media.

The video shows people holding up signs and placards while chanting "boycott Disney." Posted on Wednesday evening, the video has been viewed over 400,000 times and can be seen here.

The protest was organized by Christian activist group Hold the Line and took place in Burbank, California, on Wednesday evening.

Earlier in the week, another video calling for the protest also began circulating on social media.

In the video, it showed news hosts highlighting Disney's decision to increase its representation of LBTQ+ people in its media.
https://www.newsweek.com/boycott-disney-protest-california-dont-say-gay-1695846

Oh get out of here, you fucking morons! Don’t you have anything better to do? Leave California Disney out of this, this is my home, get out of here with that shit! Oh who am I kidding? Of course they don’t have anything better to do! And come on, now they’re accusing Minnie Mouse of being trans? That is clinically insane. Shit, people, you might have got away with this crap in 2006, but this is 2022! There’s far better things to do now! But as long as far right Christianity exists, the more they will just grow more increasingly insane as the echo chamber grows.

Earlier this week, a photo started circulating on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, featuring Mickey and Minnie canoodling on the front of a $100 Target Disney gift card. In the photo, Minnie is wearing a blue puffed-sleeve dress — yet the post, which was shared to a conspiracy theorist channel with more than 50,000 followers, saw something far more sinister.

The beloved cartoon mouse’s demure blue dress, the poster claimed, “looks exactly like a penis, which Mickey happens to be gladly holding.” The post went on to speculate about the potential connotations of said dick dress: “following the recent leaks from the company, chances this design is a mere coincidence and employees didn’t notice are slim IMO,” it concludes.

To be fair to the phallus-obsessed conspiracy theorists, the post was not totally without merit: when viewed from a certain angle, the dress indeed looks like a penis; or perhaps more accurately, a blue silicon dildo with a flared base. (Target no longer features that image on its website, instead showing Minnie wearing a decidedly less phallic-looking version of the garment; images of the gift card have been circulating around the internet since as early as 2015, and the Disney blog The Disney Details does include an image of the card displayed in stores, though Target did not immediately respond to our questions about how long the card was sold, or when it was pulled from circulation.)

What was somewhat unusual, however, was the dark message behind the post: that by featuring one of America’s most beloved cartoon characters holding what appears to be a dick, the Disney company is trying to inculcate America’s impressionable youth with a pro-LGBTQ “agenda.”
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/disney-dont-say-gay-mickey-minnie-mouse-penis-conspiracy-1332858/

I’m going to say yes, probably? Well here’s the thing is that these are people who say we shouldn’t sexualize children, but they are making this front page news! Of course kids are going to see this. It’s disgusting the way that Fox News is actively pitting sides against each other in an effort to boost their ratings, because they have nothing else. But if you think the Disney boycott is bad, just wait until you hear about the Oreo boycott! Yes how can you hate Oreos? Well they found a way! Seriously, conservatives, just stay home and watch OAN and Right Side Broadcasting. That’s about all you have left.

A new two-minute short film about coming out, collaboratively produced by Oreo and PFLAG, has predictably gotten under the skin of conservatives. Already, Greg Kelly and Ben Shapiro are among the right-wing talking heads vowing to boycott "gay cookies" following Oreo's public display of LGBTQ allyship.

"The Note," which was directed by Alice Wu ("Saving Face" and "The Half of It&quot , depicts a young Chinese-American man practicing a coming-out speech before a few close family members. Before the young man shares his truth with his grandmother, his mom slips him a note. "She might be my mother," it reads, "but you are my son."

The video ends with a message for viewers to pay it forward. "Coming out doesn't happen just once," it says. "Be a lifelong ally."

"The Note" is, for sure, a tearjerker. Despite my admitted initial cynicism about "rainbow capitalism" and whether a multi-billion dollar corporation can assert itself as an ally, Oreo is doing all the right things here. According to Fast Company, the film — which was refreshingly not released as part of a Pride Month campaign — was accompanied by a $500,000 donation to PFLAG.
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/05/i-do-not-like-gay-cookies-conservatives-vow-to-boycott-oreo-over-new-ad/

Really the only thing they have left is white bread? Maybe the Juggalos can let them have Faygo Cola too, but the MAGAs will find some way to boycott that! And they don’t have any real solutions, it’s not like they’re going to find a MAGA friendly alternative to Oreos. Yeah that’s because that product doesn’t exist! So between Oreos and Disney, is it any wonder that MAGA / Q has reached full blown cult status? And their boycotts are so ridiculous that they are almost literally bordering on self-parody. But in yet another round of the culture wars between Fox News and everyone who doesn’t watch Fox, bet you didn’t see this coming!

Charlee Disney, one of the heirs of The Walt Disney Co., came out publicly as transgender and condemned anti-LGBTQ bills in a recent interview.

Disney, who uses gender-neutral pronouns, announced that their family would match up to $250,000 in donations to the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ advocacy group, during the organization's annual gala in Los Angeles last month.

Roy P. Disney, Disney's father and the grandson of the company's co-founder, upped that amount to $500,000 last week.

“Equality matters deeply to us,” Roy P. Disney said in a statement, according to the Los Angeles Times, “especially because our child, Charlee, is transgender and a proud member of the LGBTQ+ community.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/disney-heir-comes-publicly-transgender-condemns-anti-lgbtq-bills-rcna23888

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Uh… really? We’re not the ones burning books and banning free speech and freedom of expression. Nice try. Spin it again! Hey it’s time for Conspiracy Corner!



Welcome back to our segment where we attempt to explain the unexplainable, Conspiracy Corner! In these dark times, people turn to conspiracy theories when they don’t want to analyze what’s really going on in the world. So we are of course coming to you live from our underground doomsday shelter deep within the heart of the New Mexico badlands, undisclosed location of course! Let me just adjust my tin foil hat for maximum government interference… they are trying to read yours and my thoughts after all! There we go! Well I don’t need to tell you that our former president is holding rallies in the middle of nowhere, we presume because he’s probably not welcome in most cities where actual people live. So the people who still attend his idiotic rallies are desperate to come up with some theories as to why the election was stolen. Dude, it’s been over a year since the inauguration. Get over yourselves, seriously. But this latest theory may be their most whack-a-doodle theory that they’ve come up with yet. It involves the newest branch of the military – Space Force, and a ridiculous and insane amount of indictments. Yeah you really can’t make this stuff up.

Supporters of Donald Trump are voicing insane conspiracy theories ahead of his Saturday rally in Michigan.

The "opening prayer" for the rally was delivered by a conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed Trump is the "current" president of the United States.

One Trump supporter interviewed by Right Side Broadcasting Network said that the Space Force is part of efforts to return Trump to power in a bizarre QAnon rant caught on camera.

"The election, I believe, was stolen," said a woman with an America flag draped over her shoulders.

"But we know that, Space Force has it all, Trump has all the information, it's going to be overturned," the woman claimed.
https://www.salon.com/2022/04/03/supporter-puts-faith-in-space-force-to-overturn-2020_partner/

Holy shit! Someone really needs to make a video that says “THIS IS WHAT TRUMP SUPPORTERS ACTUALLY BELIEVE IN!” because they really believe some truly far out there, off the wall batshit crazy stuff. Really, even Scientologists are going “wow, that’s fucking crazy!”. Trust me, when this theory showed up at my desk in the bunker, I had to know more. And like most things in the Trump world, the further you go down the rabbit hole, the weirder it gets, and the more you wish you didn’t know this stuff. It’s crazier than you would think.

Over the past few days, a video from former president Donald Trump's most recent rally in Michigan went viral. The clip, which now has more than 2.5 million views just on Twitter, features a woman decked out in American flag gear sharing her thoughts about how the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Trump. (It was not.)

"The election, I believe, was stolen, but we know that," the Trump supporter began. "Space Force has it all. Trump has all the information."

Her specifics regarding the U.S. Space Force even caught the interviewer with the vehemently pro-Trump outlet, Right Side Broadcasting Network, by surprise.

"The night of the election, [the Space Force] literally watched the election be stolen," she explained, before going into a slew of other election conspiracy theories that end with the U.S. Space Force overturning the election results and Joe Biden's presidency.
https://mashable.com/article/trump-space-force-election-qanon-conspiracy-theory

Here’s the thing with conspiracy theories – no one really knows how these things are going to work, they just believe they’re going to happen. If you ask a Trump supporter how global martial law is going to work, they couldn’t tell you. If you ask them why we need 500,000 indictments, they couldn’t tell you that either. But like a bunch of rabid monkeys, they just make things up and start flinging their poop against the wall and hoping that something sticks.

Supporters at former President Donald Trump's recent rallies in North Carolina and Michigan have claimed, without evidence, that Space Force has proof of interference during the 2020 election.

In a video taken by the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) and shared on Twitter by Daily Beast reporter Zachary Petrizzo, a Trump supporter at the rally in North Carolina on Saturday said: "Mike Lindell has the evidence of foreign interference on election night as well. And so does Space Force like President Trump has mentioned."

Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow, has promoted false allegations of election fraud, and says he has spent $35 million of his own money on efforts to prove Biden's 2020 election win was fraudulent.

Space Force, a branch of the U.S. armed services, was introduced in late 2019, while Trump was president. It is responsible for "organizing, training, and equipping Guardians to conduct global space operations that enhance the way our joint and coalition forces fight, while also offering decision makers military options to achieve national objectives," its website states.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-rally-goers-say-space-force-can-prove-2020-election-fraud-1696715

Yeah probably! And speaking of people who should probably be locked behind padded walls, why am I not shocked at all that Creepy Pillow Man is involved? Because he seems like a perfectly sane, logical person who knows what he’s talking about. WRONG! Man I’ve been in this bunker too long! But do we really need 500,000 sealed indictments? There aren’t even that many people employed by the federal government and that includes the military! But needless to say, this is one of the more truly bizarre theories that they have come up with lately.

Supporters of Donald Trump are clinging to a conspiracy theory that Space Force will overturn the 2020 election won by Joe Biden.

At Trump's rally in Michigan last Saturday, a clip of a woman talking about Space Force overturning the 2020 election went viral.

"Space Force is a military branch, you know, just like the Army, you know, all the military. And they literally...the night of the election they literally watched the election be stolen. They watermarked the ballots, they know exactly what happened with every ballot," she said. "They know what countries were involved, they followed the money, they know what every every politician that's been paid off."

"There was 260,00 — 269,000 sealed indictments, but I think it might even be up to 500,000 sealed indictments. And I believe that we're going to have an emergency broadcast and the military is going to come in with martial law and we're going to be shown, 8-hours on, 8-hours off, of videos for seven days — the world. And they're going to be showing us taped tribunals, taped confessions, and the world is going to be awakened to what's really going on with the deep state," she claimed.
https://www.rawstory.com/trumprally-space-force/

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[font size="8"]People Are Dumb: All Florida Edition
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Let’s give the wheel a good strong spin shall we? And it lands on… come on no whammy no whammy no whammy… STOP!!! A random tweet!

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Wow, I didn’t think it was possible, but the Q nuts have even managed to ruin Scooby Doo. Zoiks, Scoob!! Ree hee hee hee hee! OK enough of that. Spin it again! Oh hey it’s time for People Are Dumb!

Of course you know by now that people are people, and people are dumb. And of course whenever we are in the great state of Florida – we have to do an all Florida edition! Because here’s the thing – we love Florida here, so we kid of course. But the bottom line is that Florida Man always brings crazy stories each and every week. So much that there’s thousands of memes and funny GIFs about how batshit insane Florida Man and Florida Woman are. And I’m not going to tell you what constitutes a People Are Dumb story because we have plenty of examples for you to choose from. Most of these come to us of course from the @Florida_Man account and the r/Floridaman subreddit. So I want to start with this story out of Panama City Beach. You know the feud between Florida and Alabama is as old as time itself, but if you’re planning a spring break takeover of a Florida beach town, first off, don’t announce it on social media. Second, bringing guns and drugs to Spring Break is definitely a bad idea and part of the reason why actual Florida residents hate Spring Break.

Two Alabama men are accused of inciting or encouraging a riot after authorities said messages were spread online encouraging the spring break “takeover” of a Florida beach town, authorities said.

More than 160 people were arrested, about 75 illegal guns were confiscated and several businesses closed during a wild weekend late last month in Panama City Beach, police said.

Social media influencers and others promoted “Panamaniac” on Facebook and other social media platforms, authorities said.

Demarion Ty’Quan Cooper, 20 and Rashad Boyce Glasper, 25, were arrested Thursday at their homes in the Alabama cities of Troy and Wetumpka, police said.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/business-media-alabama-arrests-social-media-1227fbe3e0ce3b26ef8904e48d42fb33

Yes please! Spring break isn’t long enough! Ding! Next up – Capitol Riots! Yes, the Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 is the gift that keeps on giving. And one of my favorite scenes from that crazy day was the shot of this dolt walking off with Nancy Pelosi’s podium. Yeah that’s a thing that happened! What’s even crazier is that this guy’s friends attempted to have a “going to prison” party that got rejected by the host restaurant because they didn’t want to be seen with insurrectionists. Gee, you think that might have been a bad idea?

AFlorida restaurant canceled a "going to prison" party for a Jan. 6 rioter who was photographed with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern after the owner said that it was drawing too much attention.

News Channel 8 reported that Caddy's Bradenton, a waterfront restaurant located outside of Tampa, Fla., canceled the April 1 event for Adam Johnson, who was sentenced to 75 days in prison last month for breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The restaurant manager for Caddy's Bradenton told the outlet he canceled the event, which had been advertised as a "going to prison" party, because of the attention it was drawing.

The Facebook event, "Adam's going to prison!" is still live on the social media site, with 41 people confirmed to attend.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/florida-restaurant-cancels-going-to-prison-party-for-jan-6-rioter-seen-with-pelosi-s-lectern/ar-AAVuTa3

Next up – this one might be the most Florida story imaginable. We go to the town of Naples for this one and here’s the thing. If you’re going to be arrested for guns and drugs, that’s pretty much an every day routine police stop. But then add an alligator to the mix and suddenly it goes from “normal every day routine police stop” to “what the actual fuck????”. But then again, this probably has to be a common occurrence in Florida, am I right? Yeah one guy in the back yelling “woo!”. Thank you sir.

Police in Naples, Florida, arrested a 31-year-old man early Friday after they found him in possession of a baby alligator, firearms and drugs during a traffic stop, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said on Facebook.

Officers arrested Michael Marolla, of Naples, the front-seat passenger, at about 12:30 a.m. near 12th Street SE and Golden Gate Boulevard after they stopped the driver of the pickup truck for driving with a suspended license.

Police found a live baby alligator in an open plastic tub in the bed of the pickup truck, according to the Facebook post, which said officers also found two firearms in the truck and loaded syringes that tested positive for methamphetamine in Marolla’s jacket.

Police charged Marolla with two counts of carrying a concealed firearm. He also faces charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of narcotic equipment.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna23772

Next up – robberies. And rewards points. Look I love a good stupid criminal story and this might be one of the dumbest I’ve ever seen. Because when you commit a crime, you should probably not give the retailer your personal information. And we’re just speculating here – that might be a bad idea. So maybe leave the rewards points off the table if you’re going to rob a convenience store. That’s not only a Florida Woman fail, but this next story also perfectly encapsulates the ideology of “late stage capitalism”.

A Florida woman was arrested after using a stolen department store credit card and simultaneously using her own personal rewards accounts for a cashback offer. Read on.

On March 15, deputies responded to a call from Bealls Outlet in Avon Park about a customer whose Bealls Outlet credit card had been used fraudulently seven times.

Five of them at the Avon Park store, and once each in Sebring and Lake Placid – for a total of over $1,400 worth of merchandise.

“This kind of thing happens a lot and we have a pretty respectable record when it comes to making arrests. Most of them, however, are not this easy,” said Highlands County Sheriff’s Office.

“You see, the person who used the credit card just couldn’t stand missing out on those sweet, sweet Bealls Bucks, so she used her own rewards account with each purchase,” said HCSO.
https://www.tampafp.com/florida-woman-arrested-with-stolen-credit-card-to-make-store-purchases-uses-her-own-rewards-during-fraud/

Finally this week – this might be the most insane Florida Man story I’ve ever seen. It comes from the town of Port St. Lucie. I also love how this story keeps escalating. Even if you were trying to write a story that starts with “Florida Man walks into a bar”, there’s no way you could come up with an ending this batshit insane. But we may have to stop doing the all Florida segments because this is the Florida Man story to end all Florida Man stories. And in the 5 years that I have been doing the Top 10, that’s really saying a lot!

A 38-year-old Florida man was arrested after a bizarre string of events that started after he allegedly stole a car and abandoned the vehicle on train tracks. An oncoming train hit the car, sending it flying into a nearby home, according to the Martin County Sheriff's Office.

Miraculously no one was injured, police said.

The man, identified as Bradford Weitzel, of Port St. Lucie, was charged with grand theft, and criminal mischief. Additional charges are expected, the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.

Weitzel told police that he somehow ended up on the train tracks along Indian River Drive, according to police. Police said he claimed that the vehicle suddenly stopped dead on the tracks as a train was coming. He then told police that he got out and ran, leaving the car on the tracks, according to the sheriff's statement.

Police say the man told them that within seconds the train hit the car, hurling it into a nearby home where the homeowners were asleep. The suspect then allegedly told police he continued on to a nearby fruit stand, where he reportedly vandalized the business and tried to steal a forklift.
https://www.insideedition.com/florida-man-steals-car-which-ends-up-in-a-house-after-its-struck-by-a-train-police-73102

That’s it this week for:

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[font size="8"]Stupidest State 2022: Gun Nut Conference Championships
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Let’s give the wheel one final spin this week! And it lands on… oh it’s one of our patented Clips Without Context!

Holy shit that is some next level crazy there. Though I got to admit – Antichrist Biden would make an awesome band name. Spin it again! It’s time for Stupidest State!

16 states will enter and only one state will become the new Top 10 Conservative Idiots Stupidest State!



Wow. Last week was one for the ages! Georgia handily defeated Iowa to advance in the Batshit Conference. But the real star of the show happened in the matchup between Tennessee and Indiana where Tennessee dominated the competition by nearly 30 points to advance in the Family Values Conference. How did they do it? With a shocking new law that reduces or in some cases eliminates the legally required age for marriage. Yes, they endorse child brides and enable pedophiles. Will Tennessee be the one to win it all? Time will tell! But this week we’re at the home of the UK Wildcats, the legendary Rupp Arena in Lexington, Kentucky as Texas takes on Missouri for control of the Gun Nut Conference Championship! One of these two teams will go to the Final Four, the other will go home! Let’s go to the floor, shall we?

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Everyone knows that the Lone Star State is practically synonymous with America’s undying love of the firearm. Hell Texas loves guns so much that it’s been the butt of jokes of countless movies and TV shows going back to the 1950s. Seriously, Texas without guns is like grilled cheese without cheese. But now Texas’ gun laws are so batshit insane that they’re currently the subject of intense scrutiny from the Biden administration and that’s mainly because of something called a “ghost gun”. So what is a ghost gun, you might ask? Well it’s a gun that can be assembled with a kit at home rather than purchased from a gun store. Which you might know, means that they can be easily disassembled and destroyed and untraced if they’re used in a crime. Yes, that’s late stage NRA madness for you.

The Biden administration’s crackdown on untraceable, do-it-yourself firearm kits could push gun regulations back to the political forefront in Texas and across the country ahead of this fall’s elections.

President Joe Biden used a Rose Garden event on Monday to announce new regulations targeting so-called “ghost guns” that can be assembled at home from kits purchased online. The resulting weapons can be just as deadly as those purchased at a gun store but have no serial numbers for authorities to trace if they’re used in a crime.

“Law enforcement is sounding the alarm,” Biden said of ghost guns. “Our communities are paying the price.”

The ghost gun market has exploded in states such as California that have moved to aggressively regulate firearm sales, said Ari Freilich, state policy director at the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2022/04/11/biden-bid-to-stop-ghost-guns-holds-political-implications-for-texas/

So while Texas has this Ghost Gun problem, they also have a problem with some of the most insane abortion laws in the country. In fact, the laws that Texas has as far as abortion goes are pretty draconian, and that goes without saying. So leave it to one of the smart states – my home state of California – to combat this problem. And you know speaking of guns and abortion, how can you be pro-gun and pro-life? I feel like these two ideologies would conflict with each other. Guns take away life. But anyway I am rambling here. California’s got the solution to this problem of untraceable firearms.

Stung by a deadly mass shooting on Sunday mere blocks from the state capitol, California lawmakers on Tuesday advanced an innovative yet untested approach to gun control that would empower private citizens to sue those who traffic in illegal weapons.

California already has some of the country’s strictest firearms rules, but it has struggled to curb the spread of stolen or homemade and increasingly prevalent “ghost” guns.

Its latest attempt, proposed by the Democratic governor, Gavin Newsom, would allow people to file civil lawsuits against anyone who distributes illegal assault weapons, parts that can be used to build weapons, guns without serial numbers, or .50-caliber rifles. They would be awarded at least $10,000 in civil damages for each weapon, plus attorneys’ fees.

“California leads the nation in enacting robust gun laws and we’re still seeing this unprecedented level of gun violence,” Robert Hertzberg, the Democratic state senator who is carrying the bill, told the state senate’s judiciary committee.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/06/california-gun-law-sacramento-shooting

No you’re not responsible adults! And you know Texas’ approach to guns is “fuck it”. And here’s how stupid and backwards our guns are – we can’t ban guns because you know, “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!!!!1!!!1!”. Fuck that shit. But we can have signs on schools that say “gun free zones” – yeah that will stop gun crime. That’s like putting a piece of duct tape on a flooded toilet. But really Texas, you need to do something unless you’re intentionally trying to get people killed!

In most urban and suburban areas, particularly in Texas, it’s “nearly impossible to go about one’s day without entering a school zone,” which in turn conflicts with a citizen’s ability to exercise a right guaranteed under the Constitution, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, writes Tyler Smotherman, a J.D. candidate at the Texas Tech University School of Law and author of the paper.

Smotherman argues that the right-to-carry movement has gained significant ground in the three decades since the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 (GFSZA) was enacted.

“Citizens in 21 states can now legally carry concealed firearms for self-defense without a permit,” he writes, noting that in September 2021, Texas became the most recent state to enact the legislation.

“Thus, hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens regularly violate the GFSZA as they go about their everyday lives in urban and suburban areas across the United States.”
https://thecrimereport.org/2022/04/14/gun-free-school-zones-and-concealed-carry-which-takes-precedence/

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The Show Me State put up quite the show in the first leg of the tournament. While Texas looks to advance, Missouri is gaining on them! How could an underdog defeat the champions and the state that’s practically synonymous with guns? Well the debate between concealed carry and open carry is one as old as time itself. And it’s something that you’d better not get involved in unless you’re prepared to shoot your mouth off – both literally and figuratively. Well you’d better watchout Texas, because Missouri may have you upped in the gun game! Because they just passed a law that would allow concealed carry of weapons on public transportation and in churches! Gee, what could possibly go wrong, you might ask? Well…

The Missouri House passed a bill Wednesday that allows concealed weapons on public transportation and lifts their prohibition in houses of worship.

Under the measure, concealed weapon permit holders could carry onto buses, though guns would remain prohibited on Amtrak trains. Concealed weapons would also be allowed into churches, synagogues and other places of worship, though religious leaders could post signs saying guns aren’t permitted and ask those with weapons to leave.

The House passed the bill 101-40, sending it to the Senate.

The legislation marks the latest effort to loosen Missouri’s gun laws and expand the areas where firearms are permitted. Last year the General Assembly approved a bill that seeks to block enforcement of some federal gun laws. Wednesday’s measure lowers the age to obtain a concealed carry permit from 19 to 18 and creates the crime of unlawful discharge of a firearm, which occurs when a gun is shot within city limits with criminal negligence — an attempt to ban celebratory gunfire.
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article259249755.html

Yeah that happened! So if Texas’ gun laws aren’t crazy enough, Missouri has an ace in the hole – the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act! Like come on, you might as well just legalize murder and get it over with already! Like it’s like they’re trying to intentionally get people killed. But you know our gun rights “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!1!”. And again, really, fuck off with that shit. But it’s truly insane what is happening with our country’s gun laws. Do they want to make the Purge a reality? It sure seems we’re headed that way.

Just two weeks after suing Missouri over its Second Amendment Preservation Act, the federal government has made the rare move of rapidly asking for summary judgment against Missouri, arguing the law is causing “significant harm” to law enforcement and public safety.

The government's 40-page motion asks the court to issue a judgment declaring the Second Amendment Preservation Act invalid and blocking its enforcement.

“Missouri’s unconstitutional attempt to nullify federal law directly regulates, discriminates against, and affirmatively penalizes the lawful exercise of federal authority,” the motion states. A government spokesperson declined additional comment.

Summary judgment allows a court to circumvent a trial, and it’s rare for a plaintiff to seek summary judgment so soon after filing suit. Typically, motions for summary judgment are brought after both sides have exchanged discovery. For a court to grant it, the material facts of the case must be undisputed and the law, when applied to those facts, entitles the moving party to a judgment on the merits.
https://www.kcur.org/news/2022-03-01/justice-department-says-missouris-gun-law-is-causing-significant-harm-to-public-safety

By the way you think Texas’ gun laws are insane, wait until you see Missouri where they’re saying “hold my beer and watch this!”. Last year, while you weren’t looking, Missouri passed a new law that simply invalidates all federal gun control laws. That’s the 2nd Amendment Preservation Act. So yes that is correct. It’s no wonder that firearms are practically considered a religion – you’re literally taking your gun to church! So we may have a new king of the Gun Nut Conference here because this is criminally insane. Whenever laws are passed like this, the only acceptable response is “what could possibly go wrong?”.

Missouri has new a law that claims to invalidate all federal gun control laws — and prohibits state and local cooperation with enforcement of those laws.

Gov. Mike Parson signed the bill, known as HB 85 or the Second Amendment Preservation Act, into law Saturday at a gun store and shooting range called Frontier Justice.

The law declares federal laws and regulations "that infringe on the people's right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed by the Second Amendment ... must be invalid in this state."

Parson, a Republican, said in a press release that the legislation "draws a line in the sand and demonstrates our commitment to reject any attempt by the federal government to circumvent the fundamental right Missourians have to keep and bear arms to protect themselves and their property."
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/17/1007690138/can-missouri-declare-federal-gun-laws-invalid

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OMFG. The champs go down! That’s right - #4 seed Missouri has taken control of the Gun Nut Conference! They will move onto the Final Four! They are celebrating on the court with just mere seconds left in the game! That’s all she wrote, folks! Missouri will move on. Texas goes home, the Texas fans are absolutely stunned! Final score – 93 – 86. Missouri, cut the net, guys, you earned it!



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Who moves onto the Final Four? It’s a battle of the Family Values and holier than thou crowds as red hot #2 North Carolina takes on surging underdogs #4 Tennessee. We’re live at the home of the Mizzou Tigers, the Mizzou Arena in Columbia, Missouri for all the action!



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