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October 3, 2024

Election denier Tina Peters sentenced to nine years.

Judge called her a charlatan and a liar and said she would do it all over again without hesitation.

Fuck yeah!

https://twitter.com/KyleClark/status/1841906680520704400

Tina Peters is an American convicted felon who is the former County Clerk of Mesa County, Colorado. Described in 2022 as "one of at least twenty-two election deniers vying to take charge of elections in eighteen states", she was the first election official in the U.S. convicted of criminal charges related to stolen election conspiracy theories surrounding the 2020 United States presidential election. In August 2024, she was convicted on charges relating to unauthorized access to election machines.


9 years for the Orange Messiah. Way to go, honey!

October 1, 2024

Rob Schneider - anti vax dickhead.

Right-wing not-so-funnyman Rob Schneider suggested that NBA great Dikembe Mutombo, who died of brain cancer at age 58 on Monday, was a victim of the COVID-19 vaccine.

The former “Deuce Bigalow” and “Saturday Night Live” star shared a video of the Basketball Hall of Famer urging people to get inoculated during the pandemic.

“Rest in Peace ...” Schneider wrote on X, formerly Twitter. “I’m sure this just (another) coincidence. But I took a pass on the Jab and I’m gonna not let anyone I know (and who will Listen) get it either!”

Schneider’s hot take was deemed “monstrous” by Rex Chapman, a social media commentator and NBA contemporary of Mutombo. “Dikembe fought hard for the past year. He died from brain cancer. He lived beyond an honorable life,” Chapman wrote.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rob-schneiders-reaction-dikembe-mutombos-130727007.html

September 19, 2024

Guess who had an Ashley Madison account?

An email address belonging to North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was registered on Ashley Madison, a website designed for married people seeking affairs.

An adviser to Robinson, granted anonymity to speak freely, confirmed to POLITICO that the email address in question belongs to Robinson.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/19/north-carolina-lt-governor-mark-robinson-ashley-madison-00180107

I can just imagine the responses from women to a guy who advertises himself as a Black Nazi.

September 19, 2024

The Dude is Making a New Widelux Panoramic Film Camera

Jeff Bridges, who has multiple times espoused his love of the panoramic Widelux film camera, is planning to make it easier for more people to find a love of photography the same way he did by remaking the classic camera next year and calling it the WideluxX.

“Most of the photographs I take are done with a Widelux camera. It’s a panning, still camera. I use the 35mm version. It’s got a 28mm lens that pans nearly 180 degrees. Instead of a traditional shutter, it has a slit that, as the lens pans, exposes the film,” Bridges has said.







https://petapixel.com/2024/09/19/jeff-bridges-is-making-a-new-widelux-panoramic-film-camera/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1UjGqAmTZNkHb896doFvoqH9Pk6BXMS2Y7-0d-6JJbdtndEkpb-BX-CnE_aem_a7Nz5TnXdbeNXoNzWU2J9A

Interesting article.

September 12, 2024

Capitol Rioter Brothers Charged With Assaulting Journalist On Jan. 6

The Justice Department on Thursday arrested and charged two brothers who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, accusing them of assaulting a photographer and stealing the journalist’s camera.

The brothers, 52-year-old Phillip Walker of Pennsylvania and 49-year-old David Walker of New Jersey, have been charged with forcibly taking an item from a person and assaulting a person with the intent to commit another felony. Those are on top of the misdemeanor charges faced by other Jan. 6 rioters.

…NBC News identified her as Erin Schaff, one of three New York Times journalists at the Capitol the day of the riot. She has written about what happened to her that day, describing her fears of being killed.

“Grabbing my press pass, they saw that my ID said The New York Times and became really angry,” she wrote for the Times a day after the insurrection. “They threw me to the floor, trying to take my cameras. I started screaming for help as loudly as I could. No one came. People just watched. At this point, I thought I could be killed and no one would stop them. They ripped one of my cameras away from me, broke a lens on the other and ran away.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jan-6-rioters-assault-journalist_n_66e332cee4b0056e82918190

MAGA thugs. I hope they get the max.

September 12, 2024

The New Yorker cover July 30 2018

After the debate, it seemed like an appropriate image to reproduce.

September 11, 2024

Even Drudge is calling it.



Former President Donald Trump went on a bizarre rant during the ABC News debate Tuesday night when he claimed that undocumented migrants are eating cats and dogs in Ohio – leading to a fact-check from moderator David Muir.

Over the last few days, the Trump campaign has promoted a false rumor that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are abducting and eating pets. The former president even promoted the claim via social media by reposting AI images of him defending cats and ducks.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/theyre-eating-the-pets-trump-shouts-about-fake-pet-eating-story-at-debate-and-gets-brutally-fact-checked/
September 3, 2024

New GOP talking point: it's not election interference, it's Alexa interference

The trumpers are getting nuttier by the hour.

“𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩?”

Amazon Alexa: “𝐈 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞.”

“𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐚, 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐈 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬.”

Amazon Alexa: “𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐯𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐚 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭. 𝐀𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬.”

https://twitter.com/RedWave_Press/status/1830978701959266453

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