Lara Trump has been flip-flopping on the RNC’s relationship with Scott Presler for the last month. On March 14, Trump told right-wing podcast host Benny Johnson that she wanted to hire Presler for a job in “our legal ballot harvesting division.” Days later, NBC News reported Presler would not be hired. Then, on her podcast published on March 20, she said she would ask Presler to be “part of the team” to help with “the largest legal ballot harvesting operation in the entire country,” which will be “started by the RNC.”
Presler has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory dozens of times on Instagram and was on the U.S. Capitol grounds during the January 6, 2021, attack. Additionally, Presler has worked for Act for America, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center has described as an “anti-Muslim hate group." He was previously linked to lewd photos posted to Craigslist allegedly taken in an RNC office in 2016.
Speaking to Newsmax host Sebastian Gorka on his Gorka Reality Check program Sunday, RNC co-chair Lara Trump is partnering up with QAnon conspiracist and January 6th Insurrection attender Scott Presler.
What if there's an investigation that everybody involves knows is bullshit? Just today, Biden's Press Secretary Karine Jean Pierre said the Executive Branch knows for a fact that this investigation will not reveal any important connection between the President and Hunter Biden's business deals. However, one has to wonder, if that is the case, why are they even bothering to investigate this in the first place? I wish to remind everybody that our last President attempted to overthrow the government and end democracy in the United States, and the Justice Department is too busy running nonsensical investigations based on Republican bullshit--which makes one wonder what the point of electing a Democrat even was.
Fourth Place: Ben Shapiro
Here is what Shapiro had to say regarding the Trump indictment revealed last night:
Whatever you think of the Trump indictments, one thing is for certain: the glass has now been broken over and over again. Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. Running for office now carries the legal risk of going to jail -- on all sides.
Even ignoring the hypocrisy of this coming from a man who wrote an entire book calling for the prosecution of Barack Obama, this is utterly nonsensical. Running for office does not carry the legal risk of going to jail, breaking the law does--the only difference being now running for office is not a shield from going to jail.
Third Place: Christopher Rufo
Can we just talk about how moronic the right is when it comes to optics? For example, if you want to do something regarding the institutions of this country and push them to the right--maybe you shouldn't compare yourself to one of the most hated politicians in United States history.
Finally, the next conservative administration must mobilize federal law enforcement against the left-wing radical organizations that engaged in political violence during the summer of George Floyd. What Nixon did to the Black Panther Party, the next president must do to the violent factions of our time.
I'm half reminded of when J.D. Vance tried to convince Donald Trump to channel Andrew Jackson's response to the Supreme Court--however, it is impossible to stress how bad of an idea something like that would be. Seriously, comparing yourself to the personification of everything most people hate about politics--the man who nearly destroyed the Republican Party--is quite possibly the dumbest thing a person could do.
Second Place: Sebastian Gorka
I don't even know what to say about this one:
President Trump said what? He said, "I just want to find 11,780 votes." That's like saying, "I just want to have vanilla ice cream for dessert."
No it isn't--not in any way.
Winner: Charlie Kirk
Again, this is another one I don't really have a comment for--I guess other than Kirk saying that Trump's indictment is "an attempt to nullify the Constitution" shows that he hasn't actually read it.
Charlie Kirk, you've said the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Tumblr, if you want credibility after how you treated trans users, don't sponsor men who wanted to round up critics of Bush and Rumsfeld (Gallagher) and spreading homophobia, islamophobia, and militarism (Gorka)
Even Right-Wingers Think Elon Musk's Hunter Biden Reveal Is A Nothingburger
Even Right-Wingers Think Elon Musk’s Hunter Biden Reveal Is A Nothingburger
Elon Musk’s tease concerning a massive reveal about Hunter Biden, his infamous laptop and Twitter “suppression” flopped big time Friday, even with right-wingers who were supposed to swoon over the information.
“So far I’m deeply underwhelmed,” tweeted right-wing radio host Seb Gorka, who served in the Trump administration. “We know the Dems in DC collude with the Dems in Palo Alto. Big Whop…
I would LOVE to know what other characters you think are autistic cause sure everyone talks about jon autism but tax guy from the taxidermy shop autism??? I desperately need to know your takes
mikey jordankennedy’s all-time autistic magnus archives character list
Daily reminder that the anti-abortion position will never be a feminist, left-wing or progressive position, and the pathological need of pro-lifers to tokenize minorities and certain experiences that we have needs to be studied.
First off, I find it very funny that an organization known for having its white members engage in physical violence, trespassing and digging in the trash for fetal remains is now trying to lecture black women about intersectionality with regard to pregnancy and childbirth.
Reproductive justice is both a term and an ideology that black women specifically came up with in order to acknowledge how race and economic class play a role in reproductive access and decisions. The fact that an organization run and represented by white people pretending to be progressive is trying to check the women who came up with an actual progressive framework of beliefs to better represent their own interests is hilarious to me.
Second, PAAU is not a progressive organization. Its founder, Terrisa Bukovinac, is on the board of the Leadership Institute, a politically conservative training organization, and has gone to events hosted by the Heritage Foundation - a right-wing conservative think tank helping to drive anti-abortion legislation around the country by supporting conservative Republican politicians in various ways.
You even have members of this organization like @secularprolifeconspectus on Tumblr who will do interviews with people like Sebastian Gorka, who has had ties to the Order of Vitéz - a Hungarian order of merit which allied itself with Nazis during WWII.
(BTW, the IRONY of spending time talking about how Planned Parenthood is rooted in eugenics while talking about how conservatives are so much nicer than leftists to someone who has ties to a Nazi-sympathizing organization. Ma'am... 😬)
Then again, @secularprolifeconspectus also likes to spread lies like Abortion Pill Reversal™️, which isn't real, and repeats quotes from Abby Johnson, the famous anti-abortion activist who had two abortions and said that the police would be smart to racially profile her black sons in the wake of the Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020 following George Floyd's murder. 🙃
@secularprolifeconspectus has me blocked, but I'll just say this.
The irony of pretending to care about the interests of black people while rubbing shoulders with far-right political figures and reposting words from racist white women but also being confused as to why leftists don't like you is very telling.
Third, the information posted is wrong. It's very convenient that PAAU is "worried" about maternal morality in the DMV area when the U.S. states with the highest maternal mortality rates are Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina (CDC, 2023) - states with higher concentrations of black people that are also dominated by white, conservative political leadership which puts anti-abortion legislation in place. The DMV area is actually lower in comparison to these places, yet PAAU conveniently ignores that im order to paint a false narrative.
Source: Which states have the highest maternal mortality rates?, USA FACTS
Fourth, I also find it very funny that "progressive" pro-lifers have the audacity to accuse organizations run by minorities of hijacking progressive principles when that's all pro-lifers do by...
Using terms like "Abortion Industrial Complex" after anti-war advocates have been discussing the Military Industrial Complex for years
Acknowledging how finances and money plays a role in people choosing to get abortions but only every criticizing pro-choicers for supporting abortion access (*and conveniently never holding the very conservative anti-abortion movement accountable for the policy-making role they play in making people not want to have children in the first place)
Saying that abortion access is a part of Big Pharma, when forcing women to have children they don't want literally creates another patient pool for Big Pharma to subsist off of
Arguing that affordable healthcare, housing and clean water and nutrition - things that pro-choice activists have spent years advocated for (*and that conservative pro-lifers have spent years voting against), somehow cannot co-exist with abortion access
So yeah, removing abortion access from people who want it will never be progressive, and the fact that pro-lifers still try to tokenize minorities (and chastise us when we don't support their worldview) shows how little they actually care about those of us people of color.
Closed the nomination form! I made a list with all nominations by category! I'll accept suggestions of stuff to move around (change a character from minor to one of the other lists, but not the other way around cause the minor list is long enough). The Main Character list is a bit awkward with 18 characters, but I'm not really willing to move any away from it even if people might disagree? Unless I see a very strong argument.
the only nominations that didn't get in were the artifacts, since people voted for those to have their own poll later on!
Not kidding here: Brett Kavanaugh, a sitting Supreme Court Justice, was partying with Matt Gaetz, Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka Erik Prince, & more right-wing extremists the other day. How can anyone look at these Republican Supreme Court justices & take them seriously anymore?
— Victor Shi (@Victorshi2020) December 12, 2022
Right-wingers seized on the mass shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville on Monday to push anti-trans rhetoric after authorities said the shooter, who was shot dead by police after killing three students and three adults, was transgender.
Far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) attacked transgender health care, asking on her congressional Twitter account: “How much hormones like testosterone and medications for mental illness was the transgender Nashville school shooter taking?”
“Everyone can stop blaming guns now,” the extremist lawmaker added.
On her personal account, Greene — no stranger to pushing anti-trans talking points — wrote: “The female Nashville shooter identified as a man. So shouldn’t we just blame white men again?”
Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of former President Donald Trump, suggested that “rather than talking about guns we should be talking about lunatics pushing their gender affirming bullshit on our kids?”
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said that “if early reports are accurate that a trans shooter targeted a Christian school, there needs to be a lot of soul searching on the extreme left.”
“Giving in to these ideas isn’t compassion, it’s dangerous,” the first-year lawmaker added.
In a second post, Vance pushed the “thoughts and prayers” line that is a favorite response of pro-gun conservatives to mass shootings.
Charlie Kirk, the founder of the right-wing youth group Turning Point USA, suggested that “instead of banning ‘assault rifles’ we should ban gender affirming care for kids.”
And Fox News commentator Tomi Lahren and former Trump White House aide Sebastian Gorka suggested the media would “bury” news about the shooting because of their gender identity.
All but four of the 172 shooters identified in mass shootings since 1996 are men, according to The Violence Project.
Trans people are four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent crimes, including rape and assault, the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law found in a 2021 study.
The number of trans people slain in the U.S. more than doubled from 2017 to 2021, when 59 trans people were killed in homicides, advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety found in an analysis.
I feel like Lynne is kinda underrated. She saw an on fire ghost which physically burned her and then she just ... went back to sleep. Didn't care about who the ghost was or anything, just moved out and got on with her life. Iconic.
Should she go on the list with Joshua Gillespie, Sebastian Skinner, and Karolina Gorka?