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Michelle Bachman Tries To Stay Relevant

John Amato — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:54:44 +0000

Fri, 04/26/2024

Michelle Bachmann Still Crazy After All These Years

John Amato — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:54:43 +0000

She's baaaaack!

Former crackpot Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann claims the World Health Organization has a satanic plan to create global governance.

It appears Bachmann is a big Rothschild conspiracy theorist that comes from the dregs of QAnon.

In my remarks, I'm going to have a chance to talk a little bit about that.

If there's time to talk about the World Health Organization that is the health care arm of the United Nations, they're meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, the end of May.

And they have a plan.

They have a satanic plan.

And that plan is to create a platform for global governance.

So we'll probably be talking about that.

But here's the greatest thing.

In the last few weeks, as maybe you felt the same thing, as despair has come upon your mind and been on your shoulders and weighted us down to the point where we thought we could never see it get as bad as what we've seen in these last few weeks, I have to tell you, the Holy Spirit has been speaking.

And the still, small voice in my spiritual mind has been fluttering.

It's like a fluttering, a fluttering that goes along with springtime, that says that there is a new thing that God is doing in our midst.
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'She's Human Trash': Rick Wilson Bashes Noem Over Shooting Puppy

Heather — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:28:42 +0000

Sat, 04/27/2024

Noem Defends The Indefensible Following Backlash Over Dog-Shooting

Heather — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:28:32 +0000

Look who's doubling down after most sane people reacted in horror to what she did. As we discussed here, South Dakota's Governor Kristi Noem basically bragged about shooting a 14-month-old wirehair pointer in her soon to be released book, and rather than admit that what she wrote comes across as pretty cruel and heartless, to put it mildly, she's on the defensive.

In her latest statement, Kristi Noem continues to blame the murder victim for his death. pic.twitter.com/N0s0Obn9Yu

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) April 28, 2024

The Lincoln Project's Rick Wilson bashed her as "human trash" and a "broken human being" for what she did in the video above, and that was before she gave her latest lame reaction to the criticism:

Charlotte Evangelical Pastor: Trump Bibles Are 'Blasphemous'

John Amato — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:28:32 +0000

Charlotte Pastor Loran Livingston blasted Trump and his mockery of the Bible.

When you don’t read and pray. You, you say, “Wow, there’s a Bible out now that includes the Constitution and the Bill of rights! Isn’t that wonderful?”.

No, no. It’s disgusting! It’s blasphemous! It’s a ploy! Are you kidding me? Some of you are so encouraged by that. Let me tell you something. The gospel is not an American gospel! It is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ!

“But, pastor, I bought the Bible!”.

Really? You’re telling me? That you’re encouraged because someone took a government US Constitution, a document. That says. We are of the people, by the people and for the people, the people, the people, the people!

And you have put it right beside the Word of God, which is eternal, unchanging, which says of him, by him, through him, to him, from him are all things. And you’re going to put those together and be happy about it? God forbid!

Now you can get mad if you want to, but I’m going to tell you something. If you glory in that kind of thing, you don’t have a prayer life.

If you glory in that kind of mess. Political mess. You do not know what the Word of God says.

Livingston is no Liberal, but I'll give him a gold star for at least saying something negative about the orange virus.

AZ State Rep Indicted In Fake Electors Scheme Gets RNC Slot

Susie Madrak — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 13:04:00 +0000

Indictments are now rocket fuel to the careers of ambitious Republicans these days. Arizona state committee members just elected one of the people charged in the Arizona election subversion case as their new national committeeman. Who knows, he might even get the coveted slot to nominate Trump! Via CNN:

Arizona state Sen. Jake Hoffman, one of the so-called fake electors charged in the Arizona 2020 election subversion case, announced Saturday that he’s been elected as a Republican National Committee national committeeman for the state.

“I’m humbled and honored to have been elected as the next RNC National Committeeman for Arizona!,” Hoffman said in a post on X Saturday.

His selection comes just days after a grand jury in Arizona handed up an indictment against former President Donald Trump’s allies, including Hoffman, over their efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

Hoffman, who is a member of the Arizona legislature's Freedom Caucus, wrote in a statement after his indictment:

“Let me be unequivocal, I am innocent of any crime, I will vigorously defend myself, and I look forward to the day when I am vindicated of this disgusting political persecution by the judicial process.”

Ha, Ha! Republican Voters Against Trump Release Pointed New Ad

Susie Madrak — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:13:37 +0000

A Republican organization opposed to Trump slammed conservative figures who recognize the danger posed by Orange Mussolini but plan to vote for him anyway. Via HuffPost:

The video from Republican Voters Against Trump is an update of a 2022 spot from the organization that resembles the old ASPCA ads featuring singer Sarah McLachlan.

Instead of urging viewers to help save animals, the spokesperson here warns of prominent Trump supporters suffering from “partisan derangement syndrome.”

That list includes former Attorney General Bill Barr, who has called Trump a “horror show,” dismissed his claims of election fraud as “bullshit” and said Trump grew “detached from reality” after losing in 2020.

Also prominent hypocrites Chris Sununu and Mitch McConnell. Go get 'em!

Ron DeSantis Kisses The Trump Ring. You Knew He Would!

Susie Madrak — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:43:32 +0000

Ron DeSantis met with Trump for several hours in Miami yesterday, agreeing to fundraise and campaign for him. But mostly he was slobbering over Trump's ring, right? Via the Washington Post:

Allies brokered the meeting in hopes of a potential détente between the two men, and Trump’s advisers hope DeSantis will tap his donor network to help raise significant sums of money for the general election, the people familiar with the matter said. Like others interviewed for this story, the people spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private deliberations.

The pair met for several hours and DeSantis agreed to help Trump. The meeting was friendly, according to a person with direct knowledge.

Trump and allied groups have lagged behind President Biden and his allies in the money chase. DeSantis has built a wide network of wealthy patrons whose assistance would be valuable in helping Trump try to close the gap, and is popular with some Republican voters who are exhausted by Trump.

Good old Puddin' Fingers! You just knew his "principles" would dissolve in waves of Trump charm. Or intimidation. Hard to say.

And today, Desantis kissed the ring. What a loser. https://t.co/Y2O4CZdelL

'You Make It Sound Bad': Fox News Host Gets 'Disturbing' Legal News About Trump

David Edwards — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:15:43 +0000

Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy told host Howard Kurtz that he found legal developments in Donald Trump's hush money trial "very disturbing" for the former president.

On the Fox News Media Buzz program Sunday, Kurtz asked McCarthy about defense attorney Emil Bove's strategy of cross-examining former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker in the Manhattan trial. Pecker testified that he ran a so-called "catch-and-kill" scheme to scuttle negative stories about Trump.

"In the hush money case, is Donald Trump's lawyer helping or hurting the case by the way that he cross-examined the Enquirer's David Pecker, especially on the hush money payments to the former Playboy model, Karen McDougal?" Kurtz wondered.

McCarthy said Trump's lawyer was in a "hard spot" because of Justice Juan Merchan's rulings.

"But I also think that if you're going to take the position that the hush money payments, which are really non-disclosure agreements that are a staple of civil litigation and settlements in the United States, if your position is that those are lawful, it doesn't make sense to me to cross-examine Pecker in a way that tries to distance Trump from those agreements," McCarthy explained. "I think you shouldn't worry about them if they're lawful."

Mike's Blog Round Up

Batocchio — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:15:26 +0000

First Draft: Republicans don't see women.

The Debate Link: Why American Jews are distancing themselves from Israel.

The Conversation: College administrators are falling into a tried-and-true trap laid by conservatives.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: Seven charts on the 2017 tax law and why Congress should set a new course.

Bark Bark Woof Woof: Art making one uncomfortable, catching up with Josh Marshall on the Supreme Court's corruption, and Garry Trudeau on Trump's dementia.

This installment by Batocchio. E-mail tips to mbru AT crooksandliars DOT com.