So I have been waiting for someone to put this up and no one did so I had to!
I've been watching some of her old social media posts and I can tell you personally the Dems are making a huge mistake here. MTG is by far the most entertaining political personality in years. She's almost in Palin's league. She's absolutely hilarious and the Dems are doing a serious disservice to the entertainment of the American public.
She's bat *** crazy!! Around the bend, crackers, nuts, and I honestly believed if the Dems hadn't done this, she would have single handedly brought down the republicans.
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Glad to see the press following "the money" documented on campaign finance Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports. One can filter and review reports here
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign, which never received a cent from the former president, moved an estimated $2.8 million of donor money into the Trump Organization—including at least $81,000 since Trump lost the election.
In addition, one of the campaign’s joint-fundraising committees, which collects money in partnership with the Republican Party, shifted about $4.3 million of donor money into Trump’s business from January 20, 2017, to December 31, 2020—at least $331,000 of which came after the election.
The money covered the cost of rent, airfare, lodging and other expenses. All the payments are laid out in filings the campaign submitted to the Federal Election Commission. ...
Two days after the election, on November 5, the joint-fundraising committee paid $11,000 to Trump’s hotel empire. A week later—after the Associated Press, Fox News and other major media outlets had already called the race for Joe Biden—the same committee put another $294,000 into Trump’s hotel business to rent space, order catering and pay for lodging. The campaign pitched in additional change—$110 that had been earmarked for recount efforts on November 16, another $220 the following day and $189 more the day after that....
...On December 1, nearly a month after the election, the campaign handed over $38,000 in rent to Trump Tower Commercial LLC, the company through which Trump owns his stake in the famous Fifth Avenue tower. Fifteen days later, the campaign sent another $3,000 to Trump Restaurants LLC and added $38,000 more for Trump Tower Commercial LLC. In all, the post election payments from the campaign and its joint-fundraising committee add up to $413,000—or $484,000, if you include the money that flowed into DT Endeavor LLC, according to a review of the filings....
Re-election campaign has 275 payment FEC entries for legal consulting in multiple states with many firms getting $300,000 - $1 million.
Trump has a long history of not paying professionals for services provided. It's easier to believe that Trump doesn't pay than it is to believe that Trump didn't incite the capitol violence. People have written books about it.
What is amazing is that anyone is willing to work with or for Trump!
He literally tries to kill the people who works with him!
Ask Mike Pence!
After what he's done to Flynn and Bannon, sure he pardoned them but not before firing them and saying bad things about them. In Bannon's case he probably was the primary person who got him elected and then dumped him and called him, Sloppy Steve Bannon.
Pence ruined his life and reputation for Trump and Trump sent a Mob to kill him! Just how delusional was Pence is anybody's guess. I have no doubt whatsoever he thought that he would be president eventually, but his faith in Trump leading him there was pitiful and what's worse, is the evangelicals he delivered to Trump, will justify their decision in supporting Trump, in some insane way or another and never once question or review the insanity bubble they live in.
The amount of people who Trump has ruined from association with him is endless!
It's never really going to ever get better in America re the division and polarization. If people were unable to realize what Obama did in saving this country in '08 and the Democrats over the years, it's never going to change!
I really understood this after Palin was able to taint a good man like John McCain and then realized that over the years, there's been far worse than Palin, like McCarthy, Agnew, Nixon, Oliver North, Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, Lee Atwood all the way to Mike Pompeo who was as bad as Trump. And, Trump's people like Betsy Devos, Manuchin etc just carried on from Agnew and Cheney. It's a poison in the party without an antidote, because they breed hate and division as a rule, rather than as an exception!
In addition to hanging an anti-trans sign outside Newman’s office on Wednesday, Greene also tweeted a personal attack in which she refused to refer to the Illinois congresswoman’s daughter as a woman. The afternoon exchange sparked a new round of harsh blowback for the Georgia Republican.
“This is sad and I’m sorry this happened,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who has been a vocal critic of the party’s far-right wing, tweeted Wednesday night. “Rep. Newmans daughter is transgender, and this video and tweet represents the hate and fame driven politics of self-promotion at all evil costs. This garbage must end.”
MTG brings a new and loud bit of conservative ugliness to Congress.
I know you're trying to joke and mean no offense and I am by no means easily offended but I hate this kind of stuff. To paint Trump as a drag queen meaning only to degrade him seems a bit insulting to all the awesome queens out there.
I know you're trying to joke and mean no offense and I am by no means easily offended but I hate this kind of stuff. To paint Trump as a drag queen meaning only to degrade him seems a bit insulting to all the awesome queens out there.
In my opinion.
I take your point and understand what you are saying and you know that I am joking. But we are all caricatures of something or someone.
As a white male, am I a KKK representation or anything like Hawley or McConnell or Jeffrey Epstien etc?
I think we have to stop being so sensitive and start looking at the context. I have memes of Trump as an ape, a dog, a horse, a blowhard, fat white man, a racist etc. Should I worry that I will offend all of those animals and people? I know really funny jokes about jews, catholics, priests, women, men, Asians, Hispanics etc.
I don't like a world where I am policed constantly because it really makes me resent the police. I am made fun of by my black, Asian, gay, Hispanic friends all the time and it doesn't bother me a little bit because I am allowed to give as good as I get. If any became overly sensitive for a silly reason instead of a valid concern, we won't be friends anymore. We know what each other represents and we understand the context of humor.
My dad listens to people like Alf Garnet, Bernie Manning and Jim Richardson, British occasionally racist comedians because they are seriously funny but I have seen Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor also being very racist, but I won't stop listening to them because they are also seriously funny!
If Trump says something racist, he means it, but not Biden because he's just kidding. Sort of like AL Franken, costing us a brilliant senator because of overreacting.
II think we have to stop being so sensitive and start looking at the context.
This is where you lost me.
I've said many a thing that someone has pointed out to me was offensive. One time I was talking about the unit I was just transferred to and said "you people do things so funny here". There were several black people that informed me that is a racist term. Rather than say "look at the context, you're so sensitive". I stopped and respected them and quit saying "you people" and apologized. It's not for me to decide what others find offensive.
On the other hand I do think some times people go overboard and I decide to keep on with what I'm doing while acknowledge their offense. An example would be calling a dish a "Buddha bowl" which I understand some take as cultural appropriation and find offensive. I acknowledge they are offended but I'm still going to call a Buddha bowl a Buddha bowl.
I don't mind being make fun of as a gay person or gay jokes, I make them myself, but when you take a heterosexual man and homosexualize/feminize/drag queen him as a way of insulting him, it's offensive to me and I don't care what you think about me being too sensitive or overreacting. Lots of my friends gay friends are putting up memes doing this about Lyndsay Graham so maybe I'm an oddball.
That being said, you don't have to care what I think either and you can do you but I appreciate being heard.
I've said many a thing that someone has pointed out to me was offensive. One time I was talking about the unit I was just transferred to and said "you people do things so funny here". There were several black people that informed me that is a racist term. Rather than say "look at the context, you're so sensitive". I stopped and respected them and quit saying "you people" and apologized. It's not for me to decide what others find offensive.
On the other hand I do think some times people go overboard and I decide to keep on with what I'm doing while acknowledge their offense. An example would be calling a dish a "Buddha bowl" which I understand some take as cultural appropriation and find offensive. I acknowledge they are offended but I'm still going to call a Buddha bowl a Buddha bowl.
I don't mind being make fun of as a gay person or gay jokes, I make them myself, but when you take a heterosexual man and homosexualize/feminize/drag queen him as a way of insulting him, it's offensive to me and I don't care what you think about me being too sensitive or overreacting. Lots of my friends gay friends are putting up memes doing this about Lyndsay Graham so maybe I'm an oddball.
That being said, you don't have to care what I think either and you can do you but I appreciate being heard.
You are heard and I acknowledged that. This wasn't a dig at you, it's just that your post encapsulated this overly sensitive hyper political correctness that is eroding this country's ability to communicate and producing both men and women who are always wondering who they might be offending next.
Unless I actually understand how or why an individual would feel I offended them and it has to make sense, I am not going to apologize because their sensitive feelings were hurt! I honestly don't believe in this political correctness lark. I think it's an excuse for people not doing the work that builds the emotional muscles.
Suppose you ran into a Dutchman or someone from the north of England etc, these are incredibly blunt people who say exactly what's on their minds but are not being offensive. It's their cultural behaviors. I love Puerto Rican food, women and reggaeton also ragamuffin dance house and Jamaicans do not hold back (and why should they?) I get insulted every time I go to my favorite places to eat, dance or indulge, but it's their way and it doesn't offend me in the slightest. There aren't many blond, giant, blue eyed men in the Puerto Rican district or a Jamaican club. If I am being honest, my family are the very worst re calling each other names but then they have Irish and British ancestry. No one gets offended! My gay friends are the worst re insulting people but it's done in fun and banter. Lately because of the Stephen King character, it's Tom Cullen, the mentally challenged man. I don't give two hoots!
Didn't Trump just proved how racist and homophobic (don't even know if that's politically correct) this country is? Did anyone really think that because racism was frowned upon pre Trump, that it really was solved? You have to build emotional muscles in the same way that you build physical muscles.
You also cannot give anyone the ownership of your pain or INSECURITIES, because there are many people like my family who will torture you. Sticks and stones as opposed to WORDS!
I admit that very little offends me if anything really. I have the people whose words guide me and NO ONE ELSE is allowed to hijack my feelings especially with words or sentiment. In fact it just makes me stronger and more determined if someone tries to deliberately insult or hurt me. I see it as a failure on my part if I allowed someone that privilege!
By the way Tweety, that's another thing that burns my shorts. Cultural Appropriation!
It's only ignorant Americans who engage in that ***. Everyone takes from everyone! Society is an amalgamation of ideas and so it should be. No one owns good ideas! There isn't a single society that isn't influenced by those that went before and by pointing out the differences is the slippery slope! We are people, just that. What's cultural Appropriation is actually paying respect to the superior quality being used!
Except, NO ONE SHOULD appropriate the pickled herrings my Swedish family members sometimes eat for breakfast! Those things are weapons! The smell is horrendous and should be used to stop wars!
You are heard and I acknowledged that. This wasn't a dig at you, it's just that your post encapsulated this overly sensitive hyper political correctness that is eroding this country's ability to communicate and producing both men and women who are always wondering who they might be offending next.
Unless I actually understand how or why an individual would feel I offended them and it has to make sense, I am not going to apologize because their sensitive feelings were hurt! I honestly don't believe in this political correctness lark. I think it's an excuse for people not doing the work that builds the emotional muscles.
I'm glad you try to understand where a person is coming from.
I don't think political correctness is a lark, I think that the anti-political correctness police are the overly sensitive ones because they still want to be racist, sexist and homophobic and throw it back in our face that "you're being too political correct.". Then they exaggerate and say "you can't even say Merry Christmas anymore". They exaggerate that people are overly sensitive.
It's usually the majority that's saying this and I don't think it shuts down communication. Being able to take a joke is one thing, but enduring a sexist joke or a cat call is another.
Again it's not up to me to decide what people find offensive and for the shoot back at that them to justify myself. I can learn and grow and engage in a dialog rather than shut it down. Or at best just shut up. It's you (universal you) that's shutting down with the conversation with "it's just a joke, everyone is so politically correct these days, look at the context".
We've had some good conversations over things like blackface, workplace sexual harassment, respecting other people by acknowledging December has other holidays , rather than Christmas, fat shaming, calling someone a (male on male oral sex), gender neutral terms like congressperson, etc.
There's a time and a place. I do think sometimes saying "you're transphobic!" instead of "did you know that is considered by some, including myself, to be transphobic" makes it hard to communicate.
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Glad to see the press following "the money" documented on campaign finance Federal Election Commission (FEC) reports. One can filter and review reports here
From Forbes 2/5/2021
Trump Shifted Campaign-Donor Money Into His Private Business After Losing The Election
Re-election campaign has 275 payment FEC entries for legal consulting in multiple states with many firms getting $300,000 - $1 million.