Examples of GOP Leadership

Bagginski said:

ONLY because there’s fewer people in Wyoming & Montana

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captainmorgan said:

Ex-Football Star Herschel Walker: I Have Multiple Personalities

Former college and professional football star Herschel Walker says that he has multiple personality disorder in an upcoming book, according to the book's publisher.

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captainmorgan said:

Right wingers don't like ethics either.

Charlie Kirk Calls ‘Empathy’ a New Age Term That ‘Does a Lot of Damage’

Radio host Charlie Kirk expressed his dislike for the term "empathy," during a recent episode of his show. In fact he says it does "a lot of damage."

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Top 7 jokes about Mitt's dog

Here’s POLITICO’s look at some of the most recent jokes made about Seamus the Irish setter.

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captainmorgan said:

Ex-Football Star Herschel Walker: I Have Multiple Personalities

Former college and professional football star Herschel Walker says that he has multiple personality disorder in an upcoming book, according to the book's publisher.

www.foxnews.com

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

Should that not be sufficient grounds for being barred from office?
I mean, yeah, he's stupid. He's brain damaged. He's a liar. He's abusive to women, but apparently all of that is ok....But being four different stupid, brain damaged, lying, abusive assholes is at least three too many...
If I believed him at all...Real Schizophrenics have deep, involved, mechanisms to keep themselves unaware of their other personalities...walker is just one fucking asshole

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cannabineer said:

Schizophrenia is distinct from mpd.

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Roger A. Shrubber said:

Is it? I mispoke then, i'm not up on the terminology, but i have read a couple of clinical accounts, where the subjects fabricated extensive, complex narratives to support their absences, their financial discrepancies, their apparently contradictory behavior...

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Budzbuddha said:

This post is kind of off subject but really irked me.
I get the Big Oil greed and corruption issues but trashing famous paintings ( that really have zero fucking connection ) to your “ cause “ is outright insane.

Not only did these two losers try to destroy this painting - they also superglued their hands to the wall. Hopefully some constables came in and issued the two fuglys a wooden shampoo with a nightstick.

I swear , we can’t have nice things.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1580869474064175105

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1580864210741133312

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Budzbuddha said:

You would think these two morons would make a bigger impact in front of BP oil headquarters or spraying board members with tomato soup.

But big scary executive security would have tackled and pummeled the idiots.


But no , they get lame exposure this way.

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Budzbuddha said:

Hershel the Brain showing a badge from Party City.
Also tells people that need insulin - “ well you gotta eat right … if you don’t eat right insulin ain’t gonna work “.
‘Yes folks - Imbecile was in rare form , talking over mods ( like trump ) , using props and looking stupid.

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Budzbuddha said:

Oz the Fake

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1579870348027498497

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As Sheila Armstrong grew emotional in recounting how her brother and nephew were killed in Philadelphia, Dr. Mehmet Oz — sitting next to her inside a Black church, their chairs arranged a bit like his former daytime TV show set — placed a comforting hand on her shoulder.

Later, he gave a hug to Armstrong, who has been an employee of Oz’s campaign for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat, and said, “How do you cope?”

Two days later, on a stage 4 miles away, Oz’s Democratic rival, John Fetterman, stood with Lee and Dennis Horton and spoke of his efforts as lieutenant governor to free the two Black men from life sentences.

“Almost 30 years in prison, condemned to die in prison as innocent men, and I fought to make sure they come out to their families,” Fetterman told the crowd.

Black voters are at the center of an increasingly competitive battle in a race that could tilt control of the Senate, as Democrats try to harness outrage over the Supreme Court’s abortion decision and Republicans tap the national playbook to focus on crime in cities.

They are perhaps the Democratic Party’s most loyal supporters. About 9 in 10 Black voters nationally went for Joe Biden in 2020, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 110,000 voters nationwide. In Pennsylvania, the support was similar, at 94%.

There’s no evidence of a looming mass defection to Republicans like Oz. But if he can peel off even a small share — or a critical mass of Black voters choose not to vote — it might prove consequential in a race that polls show as close.

In Philadelphia, where Black voters are the largest bloc in the swing state’s biggest Democratic bastion, some activists question Democrats’ outreach and fret about turnout.

Charles Ellison, the executive producer and host of Reality Check, a daily public affairs program on Philadelphia’s prominent Black-themed WURD radio, said Democrats lack a unified message tailored for the Black community and didn’t undertake a long-term investment in Black voter outreach.

“There’s just not this realization that’s occurring that Pennsylvania is a national battleground and Philadelphia is the cornerstone in that,” Ellison said. “And the only way you’re going to get Philadelphia and the only way you’re going to get Pennsylvania is through maximum Black voter turnout.”

Fetterman may benefit from this year’s governor’s race.

In it, Democrat Josh Shapiro’s campaign said it is investing $3 million in Black voter outreach while his opponent, Republican Doug Mastriano, has drawn criticism from members of his own party for focusing almost exclusively on his right-wing base.

Shapiro is also making regular visits to Black churches and businesses, has rolled out a platform to expand pathways to jobs and create wealth in Black communities, and endorsed a Black man, Austin Davis, for lieutenant governor.

In the Senate race, millions of dollars in Republican attack ads aired on TV in Philadelphia before Fetterman — who spent much of the summer off the campaign trail recovering from a stroke — held his first public political event there in late September.

For Oz, crime is a primary thrust. He has held two public safety-themed town halls in Black communities, suggesting that Democrats have failed to protect them from violence and drugs.

Republicans frequently point to gun violence in Philadelphia and have sought to undercut one of Fetterman’s avenues of appeal to Black voters: his efforts as lieutenant governor to free the over-incarcerated, rehabilitated or innocent. Republicans cast it as freeing dangerous criminals to roam the streets.

Fetterman and Democrats call that a lie and fearmongering that underestimates support among Black voters for giving second chances. And they say Black voters know they can trust Fetterman to support the things they care about, like voting rights legislation in Congress.

Plus, Oz is former President Donald Trump’s endorsed candidate.

“I think most Black people would say he was one of the worst presidents for Black people in our lifetime,” said Sharif Street, the state Democratic Party chair and the first Black person to hold the position. “I don’t think a TV commercial can override what people know to already be true.”

At Fetterman’s rally at a recreation center in northeast Philadelphia, at least a half-dozen Black supporters introduced Fetterman.

One of the speakers, the Rev. Mark Tyler, said Fetterman supports things that Black voters care about, such as bringing jobs to “America’s poorest big city,” ending environmental racism and supporting stronger funding for city schools. Fetterman also supports criminal justice reform and ending gun violence, Tyler said.

“He did it as a mayor in Braddock and understands what it is to have to sit and stand with grieving Black families after such a tragic incident,” Tyler said.

As Fetterman stood onstage with the Hortons — brothers who had their life sentences commuted after nearly 30 years in prison, and now work for Fetterman’s campaign — he took aim at Oz’s attacks for his work to free the men. Oz’s campaign has called the Hortons “convicted murderers” and Fetterman “the most pro-murderer candidate for the Senate in the entire country.”

The Hortons were convicted of second-degree murder in a fatal shooting during a robbery in a Philadelphia bar — crimes they maintained they didn’t commit. Despite opposition from the victim’s brother, Gov. Tom Wolf freed the men in late 2020, noting they had served 27 years after turning down plea deals for 5 to 10 years.

“What does it say about a person’s character if they will fight to make sure innocent men will die in prison versus a man that will fight to make sure that they’re able to get back with their families?” Fetterman asked the crowd. “That’s the choice.”

Oz-allied groups have also aired TV ads reviving a 2013 incident in which Fetterman — as Braddock’s mayor — grabbed his shotgun and pursued a jogging Black man whom he suspected had been involved in gunfire nearby. No one was charged in the incident and Fetterman has said he didn’t know the man’s race before he confronted him.

“He didn’t even apologize and now he wants our vote?” says a Black woman speaking on camera in an ad by the Republican Jewish Coalition. “Not a chance.”

Oz’s town halls take a softer tone, where the heart surgeon-turned-TV talk show host says he is there to listen and find solutions to problems that Democrats have let fester.

“The best thing a doctor does is listen. You can’t fix a problem you don’t hear. So I’ve spent a career heeding that and trying to understand what people are trying to say because then you can really get to the answers,” Oz said. He’s also touted his work to raise money for scholarships for Black medical students.

Love Williams, a 25-year-old registered Democrat who came to Oz’s event at the invitation of a friend, said he wasn’t sure he’ll vote this fall after feeling like Biden has underdelivered for Black people.

Asked by Williams what he’d do to help his community, Oz said he’d push for more tax dollars for private schools and to open liquefied natural gas export stations in the city to bring wealth into the community.

Williams said afterward that he wasn’t sold on Oz — or Oz’s ideas, either.

The event, he said, came off as “just a political stop for one politician.”

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This story has been updated to reflect the Armstrong has been an employee of the Oz campaign.

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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

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Fogdog said:

I think he did not come across as an imbecile. I think he came across as what he is. A hard right fake Christian who would decide for others how they should live their lives based upon his beliefs and not what the majority in this nation or in his state want. He used the old tactic of trying to paint Warnock as a Washington insider who doesn't represent the people of Georgia. But he would, at least, that's what he said. But he did not come across as an imbecile. He knew very well what he meant when he spoke.

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