Republicans: continued

[Cunt]

pErv at his best again.

[Cunt]

Republicans...what a joke

https://www.wsaw.com/2021/03/17/wiscons ... hy-counts/

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin judge with seven felony counts of possession of child pornography.

The state Department of Justice announced the charges against Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Brett Blomme on Wednesday.

According to the criminal complaint, the DOJ began investigating Blomme in February after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that Blomme had uploaded child pornography through the Kik messaging application 27 times in October and November.

Online court records list Blomme’s attorney as Chris Van Wagner.

He has not returned a message seeking comment.

Wednesday afternoon, the Wisconsin Supreme Court concluded Blomme is unable to properly perform his official duties due to the pending criminal proceedings against him, and added that the public interest required he be temporarily relieved of his duties.

The Court then issued an order saying Blomme is temporarily prohibited from exercising the powers of a circuit judge in the State of Wisconsin.

In addition, the court ordered Blomme’s judicial salary is temporarily withheld until further order of the court starting Wednesday.

The gateway pundit, (which I think is a republican outlet) decided to go a lot further...
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/0 ... hild-porn/

The alleged pedophile judge was the president and CEO of the Cream City Foundation, which runs the Milwaukee Drag Queen Story Hour for local children. As of early Thursday morning, however, all articles and mentions of him had been scrubbed from their website. The links were still cached by Google’s search engine and his role remained detailed on his LinkedIn page.

So is this another example of a Republican judge found abusing his power over vulnerable people? Or a smear campaign against wholesome folks? I guess time will tell.

[JimC]

Pedophiles can be found in any segment of society, and of any political persuasion.

[Cunt]

Pedophiles can be found in any segment of society, and of any political persuasion.

Yes.

Human trafficking at the southern US border is finding LOTS of kids. It's pushed Biden into the role of 'kids in cages guy'.

Some of them, probably the majority, are genuine family members of the children with them.

[Hermit]

Yes, I concede: there may have been election fraud.

Florida GOPer Charged In Scheme To Run A Fake Dem Candidate


By Josh Kovensky March 18, 2021 6:18 p.m.

A former Florida Republican state senator paid more than $40,000 over the course of a year to a sham candidate meant to siphon votes away from a Democratic politician in a state race last year, police say.

Frank Artiles, a political consultant who resigned from the Florida Senate in 2017 after calling two black Democrats a racist slur and following multiple bar fights, now faces felony campaign finance charges.

Artiles is accused of a scheme to pay a sham candidate with the same last name as the Democratic incumbent to run in a state Senate race. The incumbent, Jose Javier Rodriguez, lost by 32 votes to Republican Ileana Garcia.

The fake candidate — mechanic Alex Rodriguez — received 6,000 votes, despite not campaigning and living miles away from the electoral district in question.

An arrest warrant filed by officials with the Miami Public Corruption Unit Task Force lays out a scheme as bizarre as it is brazen: Artiles paid Rodriguez $44,708.03 from the time he signed on to be a fake candidate until December 2020, when Rodriguez sat for an interview with police, the warrant says.

It alleges that Artiles approached Rodriguez in May 2020, asking for help with a “political matter.”

The two met, and Artiles made Rodriguez an offer: if he agreed to run as an independent in the race, Artiles would pay the mechanic $25,000 during the race and $25,000 after, according to the warrant.

“We have money in an account,” the ex-senator purportedly told Artiles.

Rodriguez told investigators that he agreed. Artiles explained that it was part of an effort to “confuse voters and siphon votes from the incumbent,” the warrant says, and that Rodriguez wouldn’t have to do anything except check his phone regularly for messages from the state elections department.

Over the next year, the warrant says, Rodriguez would go to Artiles for money, asking for help with rent payments as well as payments for his children’s private school. At one point, it says, the pair bought a Range Rover together, and also attempted to start a PPE business during the COVID-19 pandemic.



It remains unclear whether the thousands of dollars that Artiles gave Rodriguez are his own, or whether an unknown third party funded Artiles’s efforts, as local media reports have speculated.

Juan-Carlos Planas, a former Republican member of the Florida House of Representatives who represented the incumbent Democrat in the recount, told TPM that he suspects Artiles did not act alone.

“I’ve known Artiles since law school — it’s not Artiles’s money, he doesn’t have access to $50k,” Planas said.

Planas, a never-Trump Republican, told TPM he left the party after the 2020 election because the GOP had become the party of Trump.

“Money is not moved around without leadership knowing,” Planas added, referring to the state GOP.

Rodriguez’s run as a fake candidate first came to light in November 2020. WPLG, a Miami-area ABC affiliate, found that multiple sham candidates had popped up across the state of Florida, all with the apparent motive of using similar last names to siphon votes away from Democratic opponents.

The Rodriguez election is the only example where the scheme appears to have tipped the vote to the Republicans. But the scandal revealed something odd: a mystery Political Action Committee with a sole contributor registered in Georgia spent $550,000 on political mailings targeted at Democrats to spread the word about the sham candidates.

Politico reported in December that the company which contributed to the PACs behind the mailings had changed its name to match that of an organization with a track record of giving to Democrats.

William Barzee, an attorney for Rodriguez, declined to comment to TPM beyond a statement issued on his client’s behalf.

“Frank Artiles and his co-conspirators knew they couldn’t beat Jose Javier Rodriguez in a fair election so they rigged it,” the statement reads. “Artiles cynically targeted and used a vulnerable ‘friend’ with a great name to run in the race in order to confuse voters and steal the election. Alex Rodriguez deeply regrets allowing himself to be used in this way and hopes that by coming forth with the truth he can help to right these wrongs.”

The Miami Herald first named Artiles as potentially being involved in December, saying that the former senator had bragged about his involvement at a bar on election night.

Artiles reportedly surrendered to police on Thursday. An attorney for the former Senator did not return requests for comment.

[Cunt]

Let me guess, you found fraud to prove your guy won fair and square?

I'll maybe read it later. If I can't sleep.

[Hermit]

Let me guess, you found fraud to prove your guy won fair and square?

I'll maybe read it later. If I can't sleep.

My guy?

Anyway, you would have read at least the article's title already, so like all good Trump supporters you already know that reading the rest is to be avoided. It's what Trump supporters do. It spares you from embarking on the impossible task to argue this particular large-scale election fraud out of existence.

[Joe]

Can you put that in a meme? It's SO MANY words.

[Fletch F. Fletch]

Republicans caught lying and cheating to win again? Quelle surprise. They seem to have abandoned democracy years ago now.

[L'Emmerdeur]

Republicans...what a joke

You are so fucking clever. On what basis have you determined the party affiliation of the judge? Or are you merely assuming that because he was out that he's also a Democrat? I think that you assumed that you'd get some level of piling on, and then you'd claim prejudice against Republicans because nobody bothered to check what his party affiliation was. Such a smart lefty, so fucking clever.

[Cunt]

Anyway, you would have read at least the article's title already, so like all good Trump supporters you already know that reading the rest is to be avoided. It's what Trump supporters do. It spares you from embarking on the impossible task to argue this particular large-scale election fraud out of existence.

I already know your clear and unmovable position. It won't surprise me when you find even more evidence that you were right all along.

[L'Emmerdeur]

This is some funny shit right here, I don't care who you are. From the Heritage Foundation, probably the most prominent Republican think tank.

'The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy and Undermine a Cornerstone of Western Democracy Will Fail'

In order to launch an assault on the British monarchy, the American radical Left has seized upon the claims from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, that the Royal Family created a hostile, racist environment for the couple. Britain’s constitutional monarchy—among the most powerful conservative institutions on the world stage—represents everything the radical Left despises: tradition, authority, hierarchy, patriotism, and the political and religious ideals of Western Civilization.

Leftist cancel culture is coming for the monarchy, which of course is really truly an attack on democracy! Those damn communists will stop at nothing to immanentize the eschaton.

[Cunt]

That POOR girl, being made a princess, and having to go on an Oprah interview.

The patriarchy is real, guys (or was this the systemic racism one?)

[Joe]

This is some funny shit right here, I don't care who you are. From the Heritage Foundation, probably the most prominent Republican think tank.

'The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy and Undermine a Cornerstone of Western Democracy Will Fail'

In order to launch an assault on the British monarchy, the American radical Left has seized upon the claims from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, that the Royal Family created a hostile, racist environment for the couple. Britain’s constitutional monarchy—among the most powerful conservative institutions on the world stage—represents everything the radical Left despises: tradition, authority, hierarchy, patriotism, and the political and religious ideals of Western Civilization.

Leftist cancel culture is coming for the monarchy, which of course is really truly an attack on democracy! Those damn communists will stop at nothing to immanentize the eschaton.

The monarchy is a cornerstone of western democracy. Who knew?

[Cunt]

This is some funny shit right here, I don't care who you are. From the Heritage Foundation, probably the most prominent Republican think tank.

'The Crown Under Fire: Why the Left's Campaign to Cancel the Monarchy and Undermine a Cornerstone of Western Democracy Will Fail'

In order to launch an assault on the British monarchy, the American radical Left has seized upon the claims from Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Duchess of Sussex, that the Royal Family created a hostile, racist environment for the couple. Britain’s constitutional monarchy—among the most powerful conservative institutions on the world stage—represents everything the radical Left despises: tradition, authority, hierarchy, patriotism, and the political and religious ideals of Western Civilization.

Leftist cancel culture is coming for the monarchy, which of course is really truly an attack on democracy! Those damn communists will stop at nothing to immanentize the eschaton.

The monarchy is a cornerstone of western democracy. Who knew?

The overwhelming majority of the freest societies have monarchs.

Near all of them, I think.