Also, “star-studded”?
This was the shot I saw:
Over on the right, there are rows and rows of empty seats.
Okay, not exactly a Republican, but Constitution Party candidate for President Randall Terry ran another of those gross ads that prompted ABC to run a disclaimer before and after.
This was another ad that attacked Dems for being pro-choice, i.e. “murdering babies”, and once again showed pictures of aborted fetuses. During dinnertime. He also says his goal is to destroy the Democratic Party. Make sure no Black or Hispanic votes Democrat again.
Randall Terry is founder of Operation Rescue.
The Constitution Party is an even more overly religious right party.
This article on Military.com says Far-Right, but AFAICT these days there’s no difference between the far-right and the republican party.
Just as former president Donald Trump told Fox News last week that he wanted to use the U.S. military to “handle” what he called the “enemy from within” on Election Day, an obscure military policy was beginning to make the rounds on social media platforms favored by the far right.
The focus? Department of Defense Directive 5240.01.
The 22-page document governs military intelligence activities and is among more than a thousand different policies that outline Defense Department procedures.
The Pentagon updated it at the end of September. Although military policies are routinely updated and reissued, the timing of this one – just six weeks before the election and the same day Hurricane Helene slammed into the Southeast – struck right-wing misinformation merchants as suspicious.
They latched onto a new reference in the updated directive – “lethal force” – and soon were falsely claiming that the change means Kamala Harris had authorized the military to kill civilians if there is unrest after the election.
Besides the obvious bit about the far-right lying as usual, don’t they get the vice-president does not get to give orders to the military?
What the hey? Let’s go for another bit of news from the grifting on the people party. (The link goes to Military.com.)
A former Park Service ranger said Friday that U.S. Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy of Montana has been lying about a bullet wound that the candidate said came from fighting in Afghanistan — going public with an accusation that has nagged the Republican’s campaign for months.
The claim from former ranger Kim Peach that Sheehy in fact shot himself on a family trip in Montana was immediately dismissed by Sheehy and his allies as a smear campaign engineered by Democrats in a race that’s expected to help decide control of the Senate.
Fake news he says? Yeah, right. Same article has this nifty fact:
He’s faced scrutiny over the arm wound since April, when The Washington Post quoted a Glacier National Park ranger anonymously saying Sheehy accidentally shot himself in 2015, when he was travelling with his family and his gun fell out of a vehicle and fired when it hit the ground in a parking lot on Logan Pass. The ranger who was quoted in the story was Peach.
Sheehy was ticketed and paid a $525 fine for illegally discharging a firearm in Glacier, government records show.
And his defense? He’s not lying about being wounded in combat; he’s lying about…well, fuck it; I can’t tell how he’s trying to lie here.
Sheehy said he fell while hiking at Glacier and injured his arm, then concocted the story about the bullet wound to cover up the fact that the 2012 incident may have been friendly fire. He said he didn’t want members of his SEAL unit in Afghanistan to suffer any consequences.
Seriously, gopers. Why can’t you guys lie any better? It’s not like you haven’t had any practice.
The entire campaign ever since Biden dropped out has been built on pretending not to know that the vice president has no authority.
Yeah. They think the current presidency is just like Jeff Dunham, Peanut, and Little Jeff, but with Obama, Harris, and Biden in the respective positions.
Hulk Hogan was there. What more do you need!?
I have written an open letter to Hulk Hogan about last night’s rally and hiw his participation has forever tainted the memory of what he meant to me as a child. I intend to film myself reading it later tonight and post it to Youtube. I’ll share it here once I’ve done so.
Still too crowded. If the US was what I thought the crowd would have been limited to a couple dozen Loud Boys and Oathbreakers.
There may be evidence of a trash crisis; I saw a video of some asshole littering by throwing entire paper towel rolls all over the place there.
Did you mention that you are disappointed to see he can barely rip his t-shirts at his advanced age? That was a mighty struggle.
As promised, here is my reading of my open letter to Hulk Hogan. I’ll post my script if people would rather read that than watch an 18-minute video.
Watched it all and loved it! Well crafted, and Fuck Hulky-fuckwad. Will also nominate cat (name?) as best supporting commentator due the meows given at the right times. Kinda like when a church crowd shouts “Amen!”. 
Lunafreya is the tabby who pops on camera a few times. Noctis, the kitten, was in his carrier so he didn’t decide to get the zoomies and take out my camera, but I’m sure he had some background meows.
Well done Smapti. It’s hard to lose a hero.
That was great, @Smapti ! I’m impressed, and I have a bit of a tear in my eye. I was an adult when I started watching wrestling with my husband and young son. Hulk did indeed stand for all that was good in America. I can’t believe he’s a fucking MAGAt. He’s disgusting.
(I’ve subscribed to your channel, and liked the video.)
Do Republicans not know that Puerto Rico is part of the US? Those people aren’t coming into the US, they already belong here. But hey when you’re writing jokes for mouth-breathers, I guess you gotta dumb it down as much as you can.
Don’t be silly. They can’t possibly belong here. They’re on an ISLAND, FFS. And don’t talk to me about Hawaii*-- in my book, that’s questionable, too.
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* The name of the state, Hawaii, is not written with an 'okina between the two “i”, because our Statehood Act in 1959 used the spelling “Hawaii.” An Act of Congress is required to “correct” the name of the state to Hawai’i. Thus, the name of the state is Hawaii, while the name of the island of the same name is Hawai’i. Source: National Park Service.
TIL what that little mark is called.
Prediction: The GOP will challenge the legality of Hawai’i’s admission to the union, and try to replace it by carving out a red section of California as a new state.
(Gotta say … using the okina makes the possessive case awkward.)