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WATCH: Ex-Trump Staffer Thrown Out of Trump Party After Posting Pic With Alina Habba — And He Was At Capitol Riot
Ex-Trump staffer Dylan Quattrucci was caught on camera being thrown out of Trump's victory party after he posted a picture with Trump attorney Alina Habba.
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Thoughts and prayers
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'Embarrassing for me': Jan. 6 rioter complains flying is a 'huge problem' since conviction
A man who breached the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, told a judge he thinks he is on "terrorist watch list" because flying has become a "huge problem" for him and his girlfriend.
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‘Extremely inconvenient and embarrassing for me’: Jan. 6 rioter who once boasted of taking pepper spray to face now complains flying is a ‘huge problem’
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Of course it's racial diversity that the far-right turn on him for. Not the paedophilia and child sex trafficking.
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It was back in 2015 that Republican legislators pushed a campaign finance bill that Democrats opposed and then-Governor Scott Walker signed. Among the provisions was one ending the $10,000 limit for individual donations to a political party. While there were still limits on how much you could donate to candidates, donors now could simply give any amount — the sky’s the limit — to a political party and the party could give it to candidates.
“It’s unlimited! This is madness!” said then-state Sen. Janet Bewley (D-Ashland), objecting to the provision.
Besides opening the floodgates to unlimited donations, complained good government advocates like Jay Heckof Common Cause in Wisconsin, it will turn legislators into sheep who must follow the party leaders in order to get campaign donations. “The legislative leaders will be able to discourage independent stands or even thoughts by individual legislators,” Heck warned.
But Republicans were convinced the change would give them a big advantage in campaigns, and for a while it did. By 2018, three years after the law was passed the state Republican Party raised $17 million, compared to $8 million by the Wisconsin Democratic Party as the Badger Project reported, based on data from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC). But by 2020 the numbers were nearly reversed, with the Democratic Party raising $27 million compared to $16 million for Republicans and in 2022, Democrats won again by about $22 million to $16 million.
But that was only a warmup for 2023: Last year the Democratic Party buried the Republican Party, as a recent report by the WDC found. Campaign finance reports for the last half of 2023 showed the Democratic Party raised $16.14 million for the entire year, compared to just $3.95 million raised by the state Republican Party. That’s a more than 4-to-1 edge for the Democrats, including contributions to the state parties from individuals, political action committees, candidate committees and corporations.
The total money raised by the two parties, just over $20 million, was about 10 times more than the two parties combined raised in 2014, about $2 million. This was one year before the $10,000 limit for a donation was ended. But the best example of how wide the floodgates had been opened to wealthy donors is the top contribution to the state Democratic Party last year: California billionaire Reid Hoffman, Microsoft board member and co-founder of LinkedIn, gave the party $3,580,000, or 3,580 times more money that he could have under the state’s old limit of $10,000.
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“It’s unlimited! This is madness!” said then-state Sen. Janet Bewley (D-Ashland), objecting to the provision.
Besides opening the floodgates to unlimited donations, complained good government advocates like Jay Heckof Common Cause in Wisconsin, it will turn legislators into sheep who must follow the party leaders in order to get campaign donations. “The legislative leaders will be able to discourage independent stands or even thoughts by individual legislators,” Heck warned.
But Republicans were convinced the change would give them a big advantage in campaigns, and for a while it did. By 2018, three years after the law was passed the state Republican Party raised $17 million, compared to $8 million by the Wisconsin Democratic Party as the Badger Project reported, based on data from the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign (WDC). But by 2020 the numbers were nearly reversed, with the Democratic Party raising $27 million compared to $16 million for Republicans and in 2022, Democrats won again by about $22 million to $16 million.
But that was only a warmup for 2023: Last year the Democratic Party buried the Republican Party, as a recent report by the WDC found. Campaign finance reports for the last half of 2023 showed the Democratic Party raised $16.14 million for the entire year, compared to just $3.95 million raised by the state Republican Party. That’s a more than 4-to-1 edge for the Democrats, including contributions to the state parties from individuals, political action committees, candidate committees and corporations.
The total money raised by the two parties, just over $20 million, was about 10 times more than the two parties combined raised in 2014, about $2 million. This was one year before the $10,000 limit for a donation was ended. But the best example of how wide the floodgates had been opened to wealthy donors is the top contribution to the state Democratic Party last year: California billionaire Reid Hoffman, Microsoft board member and co-founder of LinkedIn, gave the party $3,580,000, or 3,580 times more money that he could have under the state’s old limit of $10,000.
Murphy’s Law: Democrats Crushing GOP in Fundraising
A 4-1 edge for state Democratic party last year, the biggest ever. And they have Scott Walker and Republicans to thank.
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Ok we have something here never been done in this thread.
That being a wombat prediction.
A future wombat…
A wombat to be if you will.
They really aren’t sending their best and brightest to the legislature are they?
Some smartarse is going to apply this to Christianity and they are going to sook massively and wail and gnash teeth.
That being a wombat prediction.
A future wombat…
A wombat to be if you will.
They really aren’t sending their best and brightest to the legislature are they?
Some smartarse is going to apply this to Christianity and they are going to sook massively and wail and gnash teeth.
Should include the background - this is a Senate proposal from the U.S state of Iowa
SF2210 | Iowa 2023-2024 | A bill for an act relating to Satanic displays or Satanic worship on property of the state and its political subdivisions. | TrackBill
Iowa SF2210 2023-2024 A bill for an act relating to Satanic displays or Satanic worship on property of the state and its political subdivisions.
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sponsored by a Republican named Sandy Salmon. Nothing fishy about that...
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So a kid rocking up to school in a Slayer t shirt will be banned from entering. Sounds legit.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
This is the whole reason why the Satanic Temple exists, to expose the hypocritical double standards of the American Taliban aka the GOP
This is the whole reason why the Satanic Temple exists, to expose the hypocritical double standards of the American Taliban aka the GOP
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A right-wing family moved to Russia to escape 'LGBTQ, trans,' but now they're 'ready' to 'get out'
The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had had just about enough of gay people in his country. “We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” father Arend Feenstra told Russian media. “There's a lot of left-wing...
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This is pretty good at explaining conservative media/influencer/grifter world. The woman especially makes some excellent observations.
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Turns out that wombats eat turtles
hope the indignation and sadness at their lack of appreciation is eating him up inside, the PoS
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Clermont locals pushed for this Queensland mine. Now Adani is fighting for the right not to employ them
The state rescinded its decision over Carmichael mine fly-in, fly-out jobs but it’s unlikely to be the end of the dispute
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The only rightful abortion is mine…..
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Tell me more?
