Andy Ogles, Republican Congressman and Nashville’s shame, is in the news again.
He posted the following online yesterday: “Muslims don’t belong in American society. Pluralism is a lie.”
He followed it up today with: “Muslims are unable to assimilate; they all have to go back.”
I’m seeing some online articles that Ted Cruz posted some joke online and is being criticized over it. But I can’t find the joke he posted. (The joke was about marines serving in Iran.)
Any help?
You know who can’t assimilate? Rednecks.
They don’t bend an inch and demand some mythical idea of what the country they live in is like.
Here’s the “joke”:
From what I see, Susan Collins posted on X about the seriousness of war and Congress’s role in approval.
Graham Platner is a Democrat running against Collins for her Maine Senate seat. He’s a veteran. He posted a remark that her prayers wouldn’t be enough to stop the deaths of Amercans like his friends in the last war she approved.
Cruz’s response was to say, “Did your friends have NAZI tattoos like you do?”
I’m not sure how that constitutes a joke. An insult, sure. But a joke implies something funny in some way.
NAZI tattoos? Where did he pull that from?
Dead American marines killed in the line of duty are great punchline material to insult your coworker’s opponent.
Because there is no way Collins is Cruz’s friend.
So Yay Ted Cruz for once again demonstrating your strong American values and support for our troops. You are truly a role model.
Platner is running for the Democratic nomination. The primary will not be until June.
Platner had a Totenkopf (Death’s Head) tattoo until he got it either removed or covered over by another tattoo. He got it while he was serving in the Marines, on leave in Croatia. The Totenkopf was a symbol used by the Nazi SS during WWII, and while he claims he did not know its history and symbolism, there’s been at least one report based on an anonymous source that claims he knew full well what he had on his chest.
That feeling when the worst person you know has a good point.
I actually turned all the way around on Marjorie Taylor Greene the last couple months of her congressional tenure, and it would have made for one hell of a redemption story if not for the fact that she was rightly terrified of all the MAGA death threats.
And I’m the OP of the thread “Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO!”, which I posted almost the moment she was sworn in.
For those who want more info and context, there’s a lengthy thread in P&E hashing out the whole Platner in Maine situation. It’s messy and the whole thing sucks.
Wait, this is that guy?
Maybe, but maybe not attack American service members who died in the line of duty?
I’d say this is a good example of what happens when ideology is prioritized over reality:
From the article:
“You don’t regret that people might have lost important income … to support their lives?” an attorney asked Cavanaugh about the grant cancellations.
“No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero,” Cavanaugh said.
“Did you reduce the federal deficit?” the attorney asked.
“No, we didn’t,” Cavanaugh said.
FCC to the rescue of truth and honesty in reporting 
, Wait! What about Fox News?
An unidentified PAC has been offering $1500 to people to talk shit about Democratic Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh.
The PAC’s source is unidentified, but is widely speculated to be supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel PAC in the United States.
ETA: The article doesn’t mention the $1500. I got that info from this video on his YouTube channel.
Newest enrichment shenanigan…
Before: Social media post by Sen. Butler in May 2022 identifies “Kyle Lewter” as his campaign chairman and financial records show he was paid for administrative work. Records show that Butler’s office paid Lewter over $10,500 in both 2022 and 2023.
It gets worse. It’s not just past fraud; It’s ongoing. They will continue to collect fees from applicants who will never even have their applications looked at.
“The government took their money, and now it won’t even adjudicate their applications—in many cases, it refuses even to issue denials,” Cato immigration expert David J. Bier writes in the analysis. “The State Department is actually telling consular officers not to notify future applicants that the government has banned them.”