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EnergizedLib

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May 16, 2024

This is his legacy

From Oklahoma, the website of the paper I used to work at:

https://www.mcalesternews.com/news/pittsburg-county-sheriff-charged-with-felony-embezzlement-claims-politics-behind-it/article_4ea260b6-1240-11ef-9fe6-074ddc21109d.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social


‘ Pittsburg County Sheriff Chris Morris claims a criminal charge filed against him Tuesday was “election interference” because the vote for that office is more than a month away.

‘Court records show Morris, 50, was charged with a felony count of embezzlement of state property in connection with the alleged sale of a UTV to the Pittsburg County Sheriff’s Department that benefited him.’

If you want to act like a child behind closed doors and in your private life, whatever, it’s your life. Thanks for showing us all you shouldn’t be taken seriously.

May 10, 2024

Evil

https://x.com/heartlandsignal/status/1788655419893694579?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘In support of weakening child labor laws, Missouri Rep. Cheri Toalson Reisch (R) says kids just "play video games" and "join gangs":

"Free healthcare, free food, free this, free that, free, free, free ... I started work at age 9 ... These kids of today are lazy ... Get a job!"’

Really? I have never known a kid who was in a gang, certainly not as young as nine, not in this country.

Kids are lazy, they play video games? Yes, I was a kid at one point and that was me. It’s almost as if kids can be kids and the work comes later. It’s almost as if when they grow up and become more of age then that’s when it’s time to worry about their work ethic, not when they’re elementary school age.

Also, work ethic can’t be forced upon anyone. It has to come from within. It did for me, and I believe people can often make their biggest growth and progress when something comes from within and not when pushed or forced upon by others.

I do find it funny how they use the excuses of parental empowerment when it comes to what their kids should eat, what they should read. Let them be kids? That just means let’s allow parents to raise kids to be bigots.

If they want to let them be kids in the sense of doing kids stuff and not let them be prone to the workforce to make more money for the rich at an early age, then it’s a problem.

That’s a lot of contempt for a group of people you wanted to force to be born, to force to work, to force them to conform to how you want them to.

Oh, and this is the same ‘person’ who pushed the litter boxes in school theory.
May 7, 2024

Let's dissect this

https://x.com/acyn/status/1787653459262743006?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ


‘Gingrich: A appointed corrupt judge who I believe is about to put Trump in prison… By what right does a judge put a former president in prison? Just ask yourself, what would it be like to be Trump in prison in New York?’

1. ‘A appointed corrupt judge who I believe is about to put Trump in prison…’

What’s wrong with judges who are appointed? Or is it only when it’s someone you don’t like? If there’s corruption, what proof do you have to substantiate this claim?

2. ‘By what right does a judge put a former president in prison?’

I don’t know, a court of law? Nobody being above the law?

3. ‘Just ask yourself, what would it be like to be Trump in prison in New York?’

I don’t care.

And by the way, Newt, just because TFG/MAGA is one of the worst things ever to happen to this country doesn’t mean I nor others have forgotten what a slime ball you’ve been for decades.
May 1, 2024

The Nazification of Charlie Kirk

https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/1785706190011330890?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Top Trump ally Charlie Kirk: “Jews are experiencing the hate that we white people have been experiencing the last decade”’

Of all the things this scum has said, done, lied and gaslit about, this is one of, if not the most abhorrent of them all. It’s bad enough to say something ignorant, to say something racist, but this is literally a Nazi talking point because Hitler saw Jews as a race, and wanting just the master race with their eradication.

I’m completely sick over this. That is evil, that is the antisemitism people accuse others for having simply for being Pro Palestine.

And he has influence and has millions of followers.

This is what we’re up against. And there is no both sides. There is flawed and imperfect, but well-meaning and adjusted (us) vs. pure evil on the flesh (them).
April 28, 2024

It's good to know they can draw a line

I hated Kristi Noem before, hate her more now.

Having that said that, I see MAGAts coming out, Laura Loomer of all people trashing Noem for her abhorrent decision to kill her dog. So, there is a bottom with them.

It’s good to know they draw a line at killing a dog, and she’s earned this and more. But it isn’t white supremacy, not misogyny, not theocracy, not homophobia, not wanting to usher in a dictatorship, cozying up with dictators, trying to overthrow the government, taking people’s rights away, literally possibly shooting someone on Fifth Avenue, etc.

Dogs are great, they’re adorable, but shooting one, as evil as it is to do so, shouldn’t be the only thing that gets Americans to wash their hands of these scum.

April 4, 2024

So, he went there

https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1775562293243183121?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘Trump: Would you rather have the Black president or the white president? I think they want the white guy.’

Just wow. And this is supposed to be uniting and inclusive? They accuse us of dividing?
March 29, 2024

Huh. You learn something new every day.

https://x.com/highbrow_nobrow/status/1773519350030356612?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

‘“I went to get birth control…The price was very, very high... And I said, 'It’s cheaper to have a kid.' I left it there, and now I have my third son.” @CalltoActivism

- Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO)’

Huh. Who knew that something that costs money at a drug store was more than something that takes tens and hundreds of thousands dollars to do and to support that child.

I never knew that. Thanks, Bimbo. I mean, Bobo.
March 21, 2024

Dark Brandon does it again

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1770821615321829393?s=46&t=TEkGdOYblbsNDtM5BiaFTQ

From Kyle Griffin:

‘President Biden, speaking at a Texas fundraiser: "Just the other day, this defeated looking man came up to me and said: 'Mr. President I need your help. I'm in crushing debt. I'm completely wiped out.' I had to say, 'Donald, I can't help you'."’

Once Dark Brandon is activated, it’s all over.
March 11, 2024

Which Best Picture winners have you seen?

Oppenheimer is the first Best Picture winner I’ve seen in theaters. Here is a list of the ones I’ve seen:

Best Picture Winners I’ve seen: Gone With the Wind, Rebecca, How Green Was My Valley, Casablanca, Hamlet, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia, One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky (Partial), Gandhi, Rain Man, The Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump, The English Patient (Partial), Titanic, A Beautiful Mind, The Departed, Oppenheimer

What about you? Which ones have you seen?

March 1, 2024

'Honorary' KKK member could be Gov. nominee

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/missouri-gop-candidate-for-governor-is-only-honorary-kkk-member-42007057

———Snip

‘ A man with a history of "honorary" membership in the Klu Klux Klan not only managed to make it on the unofficial ballot to be the Republican nominee for Missouri governor, but may even appear atop the official ballot when GOP voters vote in the primary this August.

Those revelations came to light last night when former Missouri Representative Shamed Dogan (R-Ballwin) tweeted out a screenshot showing the unofficial candidate filing list for governor posted to the Secretary of State's website. On it, Darrell Leon McClanahan III's name sits atop more well-known GOP contenders like Mike Kehoe and Jay Ashcroft.’

———Snip

But that’s not all.

———Snip

‘ A 2022 article on the Anti-Defamation League's website shows McClanahan next to a man in white robes as both men give what appear to be Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross some time around 2019.

The ADL article claims that the organization's Center on Extremism has been tracking McClanahan for years, as he has affiliated with various white supremacist and Christian identity groups.’

———Snip

What. Is. Going. On. In. This. Country.

Who remembers when something like this would be a non-starter? That nobody like this would be a serious candidate for dog catcher, let alone something like governor?

And people say the Democratic Party is the party of the KKK? The Democratic Party of the 19th Century isn’t the party of today, and it’s Republicans doing stuff like this.

I thought Republicans went bonkers during President Obama’s first term. Those people seem saner in hindsight now.

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