GOP slouches into the crazy to be born as MAGA ~ GENERAL

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superrific said:
One thing's for sure. That dude is from one of the non-charismatic denominations.

Also, lol at the idea that one can measure American-ness by the number of ancestors who fought in the civil war.
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I mean, duh. We all know it's how many fought in the Revolutionary War.

Civil War ancestors are for those folks who just showed up and tried to pretend they're Americans.
 
nycfan said:
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So a book of the bible that was written almost 2000 years ago declared that all presidential candidates had to be decedents of those who fought in the civil war.

How were Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, JQ Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan qualified?
 
UNCatTech said:
My wife was reading social media the other night. Someone made a comment about Jesus not discriminating about people. The first comment read: Jesus knew the scripters and the scriptures are very clear about homosexuality.

Hmmm
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The "scripters" 😆. It's so on-brand.
 
Putting this here, but not exactly the GOP - somehow Biden appointed a MAGA or a MAGA collaborator/capitulator as national archivist…

America’s Top Archivist Puts a Rosy Spin on U.S. History—Pruning the Thorny Parts​

Plans for new exhibits at the National Archives Museum included swapping a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. marching for Civil Rights for former President Nixon greeting Elvis​



“… U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan and her top advisers at the National Archives and Records Administration, which operates a popular museum on the National Mall, have sought to de-emphasize negative parts of U.S. history. She has ordered the removal of prominent references to such landmark events as the government’s displacement of indigenous tribes and the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II from planned exhibits.

Visitors shouldn’t feel confronted, a senior official told employees, they should feel welcomed. Shogan and her senior advisers also have raised concerns that planned exhibits and educational displays expected to open next year might anger Republican lawmakers—who share control of the agency’s budget—or a potential Trump administration.

She was tapped for the job at a sensitive time for the agency—days before federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022, spurred by the Archives’ discovery that Trump had taken home classified records. Republicans accused the agency of abusing its authority and targeting the former president. GOP lawmakers grilled Shogan about alleged partisan leanings during her confirmation hearings.

Shogan has since overseen a host of changes to exhibits planned in a roughly $40 million makeover of the National Archives Museum, which draws more than a million visitors a year, and the adjacent Discovery Center, which provides education programs for students and families. Longtime employees said Shogan’s directives amounted to censorship. …”
 
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“… Shogan’s senior aides ordered that a proposed image of Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. be cut from a planned “Step Into History” photo booth in the Discovery Center. The booth will give visitors a chance to take photos of themselves superimposed alongside historic figures.

The aides also ordered the removal of labor-union pioneer Dolores Huerta and Minnie Spotted-Wolf, the first Native American woman to join the Marine Corps, from the photo booth, according to current and former employees and agency documents.

The aides proposed using instead images of former President Richard Nixon greeting Elvis Presley and former President Ronald Reagan with baseball player Cal Ripken Jr.

After reviewing plans for an exhibit about the nation’s Westward expansion, Shogan asked one staffer, Why is it so much about Indians? according to current and former employees. Among the records Shogan ordered cut from the exhibit were several treaties signed by Native American tribes ceding their lands to the U.S. government, according to the employees and documents.

For an exhibit about patents that had changed the world, Shogan directed that the patent for the contraceptive pill be replaced. Aides substituted the patent for television. During discussions about what to use instead of the birth-control pill, an aide to Shogan suggested a patent for the bump stock, a device that allows a semiautomatic weapon to operate as a machine gun, according to two former employees.

Shogan and her top advisers told employees to remove Dorothea Lange’s photos of Japanese-American incarceration camps from a planned exhibit because the images were too negative and controversial, according to documents and current and former employees. Shogan’s aides also asked staff to eliminate references about the wartime incarceration from some educational materials, other current and former employees said. …”
 
As far as I can tell, the GOP fought Shogan’s appointment and it took two tries to get her appointment through (but mostly due to GOP outrage about Trump being prosecuted in the classified records case).

But this tidbit at the end of the WSJ article caught my eye:

“… Shogan last week spoke at a closed-door event at the Archives called “Faith in America,” hosted by Stand Together, a nonprofit group founded by libertarian billionaire Charles Koch. Shogan’s husband, Rob Raffety, is Stand Together’s internal communications director. He declined to comment. The event didn’t appear on the Archives’ public calendar. …”

She may simply be trying to insulate the National Archives from further attack/budget cuts if Trump wins election — though if Elon Musk is really looking to cut $2 Trillion from the budget, then I imagine they’ll close the Archives and Smithsonian and auction off a lot of their holdings.
 
Gordon Sondland is on Ari Melber right now doing his best "walk back the walkback" apology tour. He went from Trumper, to J6 never-Trumper, back to yay Trump (aka, the alt Lindsey Graham). He's even using the "Democrat Party" pejorative like the rest of the Trump-slurping parrots. Would be curious to know the real reason for his abrupt reversal.
 
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I would ask if Tucker is OK but we are clearly past that. He claims he was physically attacked by a demon or unseen entity while in bed with his wife and four dogs — which left claw marks.

Left him bleeding. Still has marks. Wife and dogs slept through it.

I kept waiting for the April Fools!! Moment but nope.
 
nycfan said:


I would ask if Tucker is OK but we are clearly past that. He claims he was physically attacked by a demon or unseen entity while in bed with his wife and four dogs — which left claw marks.

Left him bleeding. Still has marks. Wife and dogs slept through it.

I kept waiting for the April Fools!! Moment but nope.
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They're never beating the "weird" allegations
 
nycfan said:


I would ask if Tucker is OK but we are clearly past that. He claims he was physically attacked by a demon or unseen entity while in bed with his wife and four dogs — which left claw marks.

Left him bleeding. Still has marks. Wife and dogs slept through it.

I kept waiting for the April Fools!! Moment but nope.
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I used to think Tucker was just in on the grift, but these days I think he's had a real psychotic break.
 
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