On Deck: 2022

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Doug Mastriano proposes ‘pole dancing’ ban in schools

He’s leading in the polls — but not the poles. Election result-denying GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano said if elected, he’s going to be dealing with critical race theory and pole dancing, which he feels are issues when it comes to education in Pennsylvania. “On day one, the...

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He’s leading in the polls — but not the poles.

Election result-denying GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano said if elected, he’s going to be dealing with critical race theory and pole dancing, which he feels are issues when it comes to education in Pennsylvania.

“On day one, the sexualization of our kids, pole dancing, and all this other crap that’s going on will be forbidden in our schools,” the 58-year-old New Jersey native said at a taped campaign event posted by Business Insider.

He also railed against “graphic, pornographic books” that he claimed are shelved in elementary schools. According to Business Insider, Mastriano offered no examples of pole dancing curriculum in his speech.

Mastriano also vowed that if elected, “woke is broke” and parents, not educators, will have power over what’s taught.

Rather than teaching “critical race theory” — a framework the Pennsylvania School Boards Association says is generally taught at the post-graduate level — Mastriano said “a little bit of civics, constitution and Pennsylvania history” are topics he would like to see further emphasized in public schools.

He also said “pronoun games” will be prohibited in elementary schools if he’s elected to office.

 

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[Patooka]

Well I'm convinced.

 

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Somebody needs to quit the campaign and spend more time with their family.

 

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Following the Trump precedent though, Walker can still win despite the abortion news and,

Walker already struggles with fallout from a range of controversial statements, campaign blunders and flat-out falsehoods in the closely watched race.

Among them: Walker has falsely claimed that he worked in law enforcement, asserted that he graduated from college when he did not, exaggerated his business record and made bizarre statements promoting a phony coronavirus cure and questioning the science that underpins the theory of evolution.

Herschel Walker’s campaign in turmoil as adult son accuses him of violence, lying

Herschel Walker’s campaign was in turmoil Monday after his adult son accused him of threatening to kill him and his mother and also lying about past behavior to cast himself as a “family man.” The astonishing Twitter tirade from Christian Walker came just two hours after a news outlet reported...

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[lpetrich]

Yes indeed, ‘Pro-Life’ Herschel Walker Paid for Girlfriend’s Abortion Georgia Senate - "The woman has receipts—and a “get well” card she says the football star, now a Senate candidate, sent her."

Thus being like 'Pro-Life' Congressman Who Urged Abortions for Ex-Wife and Mistress Is Running Again - Rep. Scott DesJarlais R-TN

 

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[Jarhyn]

Brace for a wave of blue wave posts that make it seem like "it's in the bag". Never mind the Hillary situation in 2016...

Meanwhile, the Republicans are sending red voters to the polls by telling them the "blue wave" is going to crest in a Pogrom if they personally don't vote 16 times or whatever.

I want to see a blue wave, but talking about it like it's a done deal is going to result in the Reverse Tinkerbell Effect allowing defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory yet again.

The thing is, though, Republicans are accusing a mirror in their talk of pogroms. We are one or two elections away from seeing Rwanda repeat, but here in the US.

 

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Because Republicans can say anything and their voters won't care,

Minnesota GOP nominee for governor claimed kids are using litter boxes in schools -- it's an internet hoax | CNN Politics

The Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota repeated last week a bizarre hoax claim which has been debunked that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and are being allowed to use litter boxes to urinate in schools.

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[Swammerdami]

Brace for a wave of blue wave posts that make it seem like "it's in the bag". Never mind the Hillary situation in 2016...

Meanwhile, the Republicans are sending red voters to the polls by telling them the "blue wave" is going to crest in a Pogrom if they personally don't vote 16 times or whatever.

I want to see a blue wave, but talking about it like it's a done deal is going to result in the Reverse Tinkerbell Effect allowing defeat to be snatched from the jaws of victory yet again.

The thing is, though, Republicans are accusing a mirror in their talk of pogroms. We are one or two elections away from seeing Rwanda repeat, but here in the US.

The Democrats are perennially guilty of misplaced optimism. In the latest numbers from the BetFair Prediction Market, D's are only 20% to retain the House of Reps in November, and only 42% to retain the White House two years later.

The peculiarly despicable and stupid Herschel Walker is 40% to become Senator from Georgia in next month's election.

Three men are almost neck-and-neck to win the next Presidential General Election, but of the three the frontrunner is Donald J. Trump

Righteous Americans must maximize their efforts if American democracy is to be saved. (It may be too late already.)

 

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Because Republicans can say anything and their voters won't care,

Minnesota GOP nominee for governor claimed kids are using litter boxes in schools -- it's an internet hoax | CNN Politics

The Republican candidate for governor of Minnesota repeated last week a bizarre hoax claim which has been debunked that children are being told they can identify as anthropomorphic cats and are being allowed to use litter boxes to urinate in schools.

www.cnn.com

And another one, Heidi Ganahl, Colorado GOP candidate for governor,

 

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In the Future, Herschel Walker Might Want to Avoid Sending Get-Well-Soon Cards to Women Whose Abortions He Reportedly Paid For

The staunchly antiabortion candidate is said to have sent the check reimbursing the woman in the card, which is really the icing on the cake.

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Herschel Walker was married to Christian’s mother, Cindy Grossman, from 1983 to 2002. She has said the former football player held a gun to her head and that he was “gonna blow my brains out,” among other abuses that he has not denied. Over the course of the campaign, it has emerged that Walker has multiple secret children whose existence he denied, including to his own staff. Members of said staff have described him as a “pathological liar” who tells lies “like he’s breathing.” (If you’re looking for other reasons not to vote for the former running back, consider the fact that he thinks the jury is still out on evolution because apes still exist and that he is, by his own estimation, “not that smart.”)

Anyway, while Walker may have been sweating over the abortion story when it came out Monday night, by Tuesday, it appeared that his campaign was taking it in stride.

 

[Derec]

The Democrats are perennially guilty of misplaced optimism.

And some, like Jarhyn, are guilty of misplaced pessimism. Rwanda? Seriously?

In the latest numbers from the BetFair Prediction Market, D's are only 20% to retain the House of Reps in November, and only 42% to retain the White House two years later.

It has always been highly probable that Dems would lose the House in 2022. Senate has been seen as retainable, and it seems to be bearing out. As far as White House 2024, that is too far out to really be predictable.

The peculiarly despicable and stupid Herschel Walker is 40% to become Senator from Georgia in next month's election.

In a reddish state, mind you. And with a Dem candidate who is well to the left of the state's electorate, according to this.

Three men are almost neck-and-neck to win the next Presidential General Election, but of the three the frontrunner is Donald J. Trump

Again, the presidential election is too far out to really be predictable. One thing I am pretty sure of: Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee, much less win the presidency in 2024. He will be much older than he was in 2016, and he is not exactly fit. He also has a myriad legal problems. He will run against DeSantis in the same lane, and they will split the MAGA vote. DeSantis might win the nomination despite the splitting, but I doubt very much DJT will be able to. Another possibility is that the vote splitting enables some third candidate to emerge victorious.

Righteous Americans must maximize their efforts if American democracy is to be saved. (It may be too late already.)

Again with that perennial optimism. Oh wait. It's perennial pessimism.

 

[Jarhyn]

And some, like Jarhyn, are guilty of misplaced pessimism. Rwanda? Seriously?

Recognizing the patterns of past violent escalation in current times is not misplaced.

It's a well established pattern that as fever pitch escalates among extremist groups, the ones who initiate such claims tend to be accusing the mirror.

Yes. Rwanda.

We have whole churches being preached to that the day is soon coming, when they get to shoot gays and liberals in the streets, because they are really just gearing up to shoot republicans in the streets.

The fever pitch is definitely playing. We can all see it as MTG repeats it in front of their crowds.

Thats not pessimism, so much as optimism that maybe enough people have their eyes open wide enough to realize it's happening and stand up with those who would be murdered at the tail end of such rhetoric.

Note that the liberals would as soon see people liberated from their ignorance, not their lives, through compulsory education rather than compulsory lead.