Miscellaneous Political stuff - Part 19

Probably won't offer any healthcare alternative... For the new budget they/he did include that pre-existing issues would not be covered. Nothing for young adults.

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They will be in for a very rude awakening if they vote for TFG, as will many others. Their areas are still dealing with the higher loss of lives during Covid!!

Burchett is being sued ..
He removed the post.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is facing a lawsuit from Denny Loudermill after the lawmaker wrongly accused the Kansas man of being an "illegal alien" and committing a mass shooting.

The defamation lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas and pointed to a social media posting Burchett made following a mass shooting at the Super Bowl victory parade, the Tennessee Lookout reported.

Burchett posted an image of Loudermill in handcuffs and said he was an "illegal alien" who committed the crime. The post on X was eventually deleted. Burchett replaced the post with another explaining the mistake. The new post included an image of Burchett's original.

"Defendant published that Plaintiff was an 'illegal alien' and a 'shooter' at an event in Kansas City, Missouri celebrating the Super Bowl victory of the Kansas City Chiefs," the lawsuit said. "Plaintiff is not and never has been an illegal alien, having been born and raised in the United States of America. On February 14, 2024, Plaintiff was not the 'shooter' and was not in any way involved in the shooting."

The filing said Loudermill had received death threats following Burchett's post. Loudermill asked for $75,000 in damages for "willful, wanton, reckless and malicious" acts.

"Sometimes I'm afraid to go outside of my house," Loudermill explained to the Missouri Independent, "or think that somebody who's going to come into my house because some people probably don't even see that I was innocent.".

Burchett's office declined to comment.

www.rawstory.com/tim-burchett-hit-with-lawsuit-after-man-receives-threats-over-lawmaker-s-false-claim/

^^^^^^ They lie!! ^^^^^^

Alito and quotes against judges who made decisions like current Mifepristone..!!

'These 'brutal quotes' from Justice Alito could undermine Texas federal judge’s abortion pill ruling
Meaghan Ellis, AlterNet
April 11, 2023 2:12PM ET

A new analysis is highlighting how U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's previous remarks might undermine the latest controversial abortion pill ruling.

In a new piece published by The New York Times, Supreme Court reporter Adam Liptak pointed out a number of Alito's previous quotes where he criticized judges for making decisions similar to the one made by Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

"The conservative legal movement has long had two key goals: to limit access to abortion and to restrict the authority of administrative agencies," Liptak wrote.

"The decision last week by a federal judge in Texas invalidating the Food and Drug Administration’s approval 23 years ago of the abortion drug mifepristone checked both of those boxes," Liptak continued. "The ruling, if it stands, would not only thwart access to the pills, used in more than half of pregnancy terminations, but also undermine the FDA’s authority to approve and regulate other drugs."

Liptak then highlighted Alito's previous remarks about overruling the FDA. Back in 2020, Alito criticized a Maryland judge's decision in the case of the FDA v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, involving "a dispute over whether abortion patients should have an easier time obtaining a pill used as part of a two-drug regimen to terminate a pregnancy," according to a Vox report.

Liptak wrote, "In 2020, in an earlier encounter with the case, Justice Alito, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, expressed incredulity that 'a district court judge in Maryland took it upon himself to overrule the FDA. on a question of drug safety.'"

He added, "In a dissent in 2009, Justice Alito, joined by Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia, praised the agency’s expertise, saying 'the FDA has the benefit of the long view.'

Liptak also noted:

The majority had ruled that the agency’s approval of a drug had not displaced injured plaintiffs’ ability to sue under state law. Justice Alito disagreed. "Where the FDA determines, in accordance with its statutory mandate, that a drug is on balance "safe," he wrote, the court’s precedents "prohibit any state from countermanding that determination."

In wake of the Texas ruling, some legal experts have also weighed in with their concerns. Mary Ziegler, University of California, Davis historian and law professor, has described the ruling as "boundary testing."

“If you’re a justice looking for a case in which to undermine the administrative state, this is not a particularly elegant one,” said Ziegler. “Everything about this case makes it an imperfect vehicle, except for the fact that it’s about abortion and the administrative state. This is boundary testing.”

www.rawstory.com/these-brutal-quotes-from-justice-alito-could-undermine-texas-federal-judges-abortion-pill-ruling/

Nancy Mace at her best ...

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) suggested President Joe Biden's infrastructure law was to blame after a ship struck a Baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse.

Mace was asked about the bridge collapse during a Tuesday interview on Newsmax.

Mace insisted that the infrastructure funds were not going to roads and bridges.

"Because we're not spending it on roads and bridges," she asserted without citing any evidence. "Look at the one point two trillion dollar infrastructure bill that was done a couple years ago that the left hails as this massive success, but it was mostly Green New Deal."

www.rawstory.com/nancy-mace-infrastructure/

I am not religious, but I do respect those who truly are.. but for TFG to wish people "Happy Holy Week...". Really??!??


Social media users were shocked and appalled that Donald Trump was hawking patriotic-themed Bibles named after country singer Lee Greenwood.

The former president started off Holy Week by sharing a supporter's post comparing his criminal civil travails to Christ's crucifixion and he followed up Tuesday by promoting the "God Bless the USA Bible" named after Greenwood's enduring 1984 chestnut.

"Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again," Trump posted on Truth Social. "As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible."

The ex-president posted a link to a website selling the Bibles for $59.99, with a four-to-six week wait for deliveries, and the frequently asked questions make clear that these are the only Bibles endorsed by either Trump or Greenwood.
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Trump and Lee Greenwood dropped a product with insane levels of sacrilege in the middle of Holy week lol," said Bulwark columnist Joe Perticone. "Naturally it's from the same folks who brought you Trump sneakers."

www.rawstory.com/trump-bible/

When the shock passes, it is hysterical...

Pillow guy is losing it all!!

MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell is expected to be evicted from a Minnesota warehouse after reportedly failing to pay $200,000 in rent for the past two months.

The StarTribune reported on court documents showing Lindell had received at least four notices of default at a warehouse in Shakopee.

"The latest eviction notice says the company is behind in payments for February and March, owing Delaware-based First Industrial, L.P. more than $217,000 for rent and other charges for the facility located at 4701 Valley Boulevard South," the StarTribune's report said.

Attorney Sara Filo said Lindell had "more or less vacated" the premises already.

"At this point there's a representation that no further payment is going to be made under this lease, so we'd like to go ahead with finding a new tenant," Filo explained at a Tuesday eviction court hearing.

StarTribune pointed out that MyPillow also has a second warehouse location in Shakopee.

Lindell has recently complained about his dwindling fortune as he crusades to abolish voting machines, which he believes were used to steal the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump.

www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-eviction/

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MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell has been trying to get out of paying the $5 million he owes to Nevada-based software developer and computer forensics expert Robert Zeidman, who won Lindell's "Prove Mike Wrong" challenge in 2021 — a victory that U.S. District Judge John R. Tunheim upheld as perfectly legitimate in a February 21 ruling.

But according to Law & Crime's Brandi Buchman, he will be waging his legal battle without two lawyers who have now abandoned him: Andrew Parker and Alec Beck, both with the Minneapolis-based firm Parker Daniels Kibort.

At his "Cyber Symposium" event in South Dakota in 2021, Lindell offered to pay $5 million to anyone who could disprove his claim that Chinese government officials helped now-President Joe Biden steal the 2020 election from Donald Trump.

Zeidman took the challenge and claims that, because he thoroughly disproved Lindell's conspiracy theory, the far-right MyPillow CEO owes him the prize.

Lindell insists that he doesn't owe the money because Zeidman didn't disprove his election claims, but Tunheim agreed with Zeidman. Nonetheless, Lindell continues his fight with Zeidman.

Buchman explains, "As two of his attorneys withdraw from his case, 2020 election denier and pillow magnate Mike Lindell has been greenlit to appeal a federal judge's ruling last month affirming he must pay $5 million to a software engineer who defeated an election data challenge that Lindell himself issued. A clerk filed the notice of appeal in Robert Zeidman v. Lindell Management Inc. on March 22 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit in Missouri, and a briefing schedule followed."

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According to Buchman, Parker and Beck officially withdrew from the case on March 20. But Lindell "appears undeterred" and is

www.rawstory.com/mike-lindell-ditched-by-attorneys-as-he-fights-to-avoid-paying-5m/

So…when do we ban Viagra?

I think they should sterilize all young men when they hit puberty. It can be reversed when they demonstrate that they are ready to provide for and lovingly tend to a family, if they ever are and want to. Both procedures are simple and safe.
But, oh, no....! Watch them cross their legs in horror at the idea of anybody doing anything to their "precious"!

Florida Protects Children From Social Media but Not Measles

www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/26/opinion/thepoint#abortion-mifepristone-supreme-court

Parents know what’s best for their kids, except when the State of Florida does.

When Florida passed a law prohibiting children younger than 14 from having social media accounts, lawmakers crowed about the move, claiming they had to act because children don’t have the brain development to see the harm in addictive platforms.

In other words, under the new law, even if parents want their tweens to have a social media account, they’re out of luck. Florida knows better. (The state doesn’t allow parents to decide about the merits of gender-affirming care for their kids either.)

But Florida is happy to let parents make decisions about other matters of vital importance to children’s well-being. Consider: When measles broke out in an elementary school in Weston in February, Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, let parents determine whether to keep their unvaccinated children at home.

Those measles cases “received disproportionate attention for political reasons,” according to a March 8 statement from the Florida Department of Health. Or maybe it was statistical ones: So far this year the United States has recorded 64 cases of measles (more than in all of 2023); 11 of those were in Florida. Meaning that a state with 6.5 percent of the nation’s population has hosted 17.2 percent of its measles cases.

Still: “Once again, Florida has shown that good public health policy includes personal responsibility and parents’ rights,” said Gov. Ron DeSantis in the March 8 statement. About 92 percent of students in Florida are fully vaccinated, according to health officials; the state is one of 45 that let parents skip their children’s shots for religious or moral reasons.

Because measles is so transmissible — nine of 10 unvaccinated people in a room will get the disease if one infected person sneezes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — scientists estimate that 95 percent of a population needs to be immunized in order to achieve herd immunity.

Protecting children from social media is a laudable goal. It won’t be easy to kick children off social media platforms; the tech companies acknowledge they don’t really know how old their users are, and they’ve yet to fully roll out long-promised age-verification systems.

That leaves parents to rely on their elected officials, who have empowered themselves to safeguard children from digital boogeymen. But not viral ones.

interesting analogy between voting rights and abortion access




suppression tactics



The U.S. Supreme Court weighing in on mifepristone is a reminder that abortion is a democracy issue.
@rbraceysherman explains how the same suppression tactics are used to target both voting rights and abortion access.

Still waiting for that healthcare plan...

UPDATE!! An insurance company paid Huffman a settlement of $480,000!!!

Schlapp accuser drops charges of sexual assault??!!


The Republican staffer who alleged he was sexually assaulted by GOP mega-lobbyist and American Conservative Union director Matt Schlapp has abruptly withdrawn his lawsuit and retracted his allegations.

According to The New York Times, Carlton Huffman issued a statement saying, “The claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family. The Schlapps have advised that the statements made about me were the result of a misunderstanding, which was regrettable. Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them.”
(Me: what about CPAC? Did they pay?  Or someone else?)

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Further complicating the matter, Huffman himself was facing an unrelated sexual assault accusation.

While the lawsuit will not proceed, Huffman's claims are not the only accusations against Schlapp — the lawsuit previously turned up evidence that two young men, not identified, allege they were abused by Schlapp in other incidents, including one where Schlapp allegedly stripped to his underwear while drunk and rubbed his genitals against one of them at a fundraiser event. There are also allegations that a CPAC official destroyed documents immediately after the original Huffman accusation went public.

www.rawstory.com/matt-schlapp-2667604024/