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Dulcinea

(6,660 posts) Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:14 PM Apr 10

Shuttered GOP outreach center now home to shop selling sex toys

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) When national Republicans opened a new Asian American outreach center in the Gwinnett County suburbs in 2021, an enormous crowd of local dignitaries and state officials packed the Berkeley Lake shop to celebrate.

Then Senate candidate Herschel Walker commemorated its first anniversary a year later, and multiple national news outlets focused on the center for stories on GOP efforts to expand the party’s base into new minority populations.

Now the strip mall spot where the Republican National Committee once held pastor roundtables and Lunar New Year celebrations is home to something different and decidedly more spicy: An adult sex toys and novelties retailer catering to an upscale crowd.

The space is part of a wave of RNC outreach centers that have closed in recent years, including at least two others in the Atlanta suburbs that Republicans had opened to great fanfare for minority outreach.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/pg-am-shuttered-gop-outreach-center-now-home-to-shop-selling-sex-toys/BYQSCWW5ZVFIJAOREHNQGJPXDM/

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Shuttered GOP outreach center now home to shop selling sex toys (Original Post) Dulcinea Apr 10 OP

ohm myyy. badda boom badda bing. love it. AllaN01Bear Apr 10 #1

Are you sure the republiQans moved out? Are you sure those aren't campaign giveaways? Scrivener7 Apr 10 #2

Whether you vote for the GOP or buy a sex toy, you'll be getting screwed. FSogol Apr 10 #3

Trumpy butt plugs? getagrip_already Apr 10 #4

They should put up a permanent sign calling the retail space "The Screw Yourself Store". Midnight Writer Apr 10 #5

We should find any old media materials advertising the outreach center at that location... Think. Again. Apr 10 #6

AllaN01Bear

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1. ohm myyy. badda boom badda bing. love it.

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Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:16 PM

Apr 10

Scrivener7

(50,993 posts)

2. Are you sure the republiQans moved out? Are you sure those aren't campaign giveaways?

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:19 PM

Apr 10

Do you see any signs that say, "For men only"?

FSogol

(45,524 posts)

3. Whether you vote for the GOP or buy a sex toy, you'll be getting screwed.

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:28 PM

Apr 10

getagrip_already

(14,825 posts)

4. Trumpy butt plugs?

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:37 PM

Apr 10

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Midnight Writer

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5. They should put up a permanent sign calling the retail space "The Screw Yourself Store".

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 03:46 PM

Apr 10

Seems the RNC and the sex toy store offer the same thing to its patrons: an opportunity to screw themselves.

Think. Again.

(8,361 posts)

6. We should find any old media materials advertising the outreach center at that location...

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Wed Apr 10, 2024, 04:11 PM

Apr 10

....and do an ad campaign using those same materials and targetting the same audience.

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