It’s time to start updating a list of political sex scandals for Congressional Republicans to investigate, now that several congresslechers have called for Benghazi-ing Hollywood:
Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) joined Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM Thursday morning to discuss the Republicans’ newly released tax plan and Hollywood’s still-developing sexual misconduct scandal with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief and show host Alex Marlow.
During the interview, Marlow asked DeSantis whether the misconduct scandal surrounding Hollywood — first sparked by an October New York Times report about decades of sexual harassment and assault allegations against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein — might become the subject of an official Congressional inquiry.
“Look, Hollywood is a cesspool. The idea that Weinstein is alone, or even that conspicuous, I don’t think is true,” DeSantis told Marlow. “I think this is pervasive behavior in Hollywood, and I think it does implicate the media. I think they’ve been complicit in it, I think businesses have been complicit in it.”
“I think the issue for [Congress] is, is there a jurisdictional hook for government activity, that government has been involved with regulating or not, and I don’t know the answer to that,” he added. “It definitely needs to be thoroughly investigated, so I think we just have to figure out whether Congress is the appropriate venue. But I think whatever we’ve seen come out of the woodwork, I think it’ll be exponentially greater if we, or some entity, actually brought in witnesses to testify about all the filth that happened there.”
The latest Weinstein Moment among powerful legislative Republicans is the ⅗ Majority Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
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The *resident’s tax plan is a fiendishly clever way to make every state a Mississippi. It will punish states with higher taxes and better-educated workforces by capping or eliminating deductions, effectively raising marginal tax rates for residents and igniting new tax revolt movements at the state level. Pressure to reduce support for good education and enlightened cultural resources will grow. In places where education is viewed with suspicion, culture is watching game shows on TV, and property values are stagnant because the kids leave, no one will notice the loss of the student loan interest deduction or the cap on mortgage interest. They will just discover that the lowest tax bracket has not gone down, but up.
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The world of privilege has so many hidden layers, like being able to drive up a nation’s electric bills to get free money:
Bitcoin's incredible price run to break over $7,000 this year has sent its overall electricity consumption soaring, as people worldwide bring more energy-hungry computers online to mine the digital currency.
An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.
This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes.
An index from cryptocurrency analyst Alex de Vries, aka Digiconomist, estimates that with prices the way they are now, it would be profitable for Bitcoin miners to burn through over 24 terawatt-hours of electricity annually as they compete to solve increasingly difficult cryptographic puzzles to "mine" more Bitcoins. That's about as much as Nigeria, a country of 186 million people, uses in a year.
This averages out to a shocking 215 kilowatt-hours (KWh) of juice used by miners for each Bitcoin transaction (there are currently about 300,000 transactions per day). Since the average American household consumes 901 KWh per month, each Bitcoin transfer represents enough energy to run a comfortable house, and everything in it, for nearly a week. On a larger scale, De Vries' index shows that bitcoin miners worldwide could be using enough electricity to at any given time to power about 2.26 million American homes.
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Brian Brown, head of the zombie anti-LGBT group National Organization for Marriage (he raises funds to raise more funds) has announced its 2018 March for Marriage date.
The event, legendary for drawing crowds even smaller than the *resident’s inauguration (turnout for the last several has been in the tens), will June 23.
Brown is still raising money- on gofundme.com- for buses to bring throngs of several to his 2015 event. He raised $43,000 for an event attended by a small crowd (10,000, he claimed) who didn’t come on buses. Well, not on charters. Maybe local Metro.
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Pizza, the Food of American Culture Warriors:
Pizza, the Food of American Culture Warriors:
First, it was Memories Pizza, the Walkerton, IN joint decorated like the drug store in Hooterville on “Petticoat Junction”. The owner said no way was she was catering pizza to a same-sex wedding.
Like anyone was really gonna drive up to Walkerton, (pop. 2144, “A Touch of the Past...In Touch With the Future”), a wide spot of empty storefronts along the road between Fort Wayne and Chicago.
Or that any LGBT couple with any style at all would serve pizza at an event they’d waited up to forty years to be part of.
But bigotry is as American as pizza, and Memories P. hoovered up $842,000 in tax-free online welfare cash for making their meaningless stand.
“This is great,” wrote columnist Adrian Sol at The Daily Stormer, which has served as a platform for racists to gripe about the NFL’s racial makeup and their distaste for what the website has called the “Negro Felon League.”
(The salutes went up after Papa John himself whinged about the NFL hurting his sales by not clamping down on the uppity kneeling players, costing him eyeballs for his game-time ads.
PJ’s tied itself to the NFL to recoup losses incurred after the boss bitched that Obamacare would add fourteen cents to the cost of a pizza and force Papa John's franchisees to put employees on part-time to avoid giving them health coverage).
As a rule, the alt-right white supremacist movement tends to disdain professional sports, mainly because the big leagues are filled with people of color and are closer to a meritocracy of talent than almost anything else in society. The NFL, for instance, has welcomed numerous athletes from Samoa ― where coincidentally The Daily Stormer recently transferred its domain. So when majority-minority sports leagues such as the NBA or the NFL suffer hardship, racists rejoice.
“This might be the first time ever in modern history that a major institution is going to be completely destroyed explicitly because of public outrage over their anti-White agenda,” Sol wrote after noting the news that Papa John’s was punishing the NFL for not cracking down on black dissent.
“Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?” Sol wondered.
This isn’t the first time the alt-right Nazis at The Daily Stormer have tried to claim a brand as their own to piggyback their hate on a mainstream product and to stoke outrage. Last November, they threatened to take New Balance sneakers away from hipsters after the company’s vice president of public affairs, in response to a question about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, expressed optimism about what might happen with the deal under a Trump presidency. (New Balance is the only major company that still makes athletic shoes in the United States.) In January, Andrew Anglin, the proprietor of The Daily Stormer, declared Wendy’s the “official burger of the Neo-Nazi Alt-Right movement” after a flack at the fast food company posted an image of Pepe the frog in red pigtails on its official Twitter feed.
As a rule, the alt-right white supremacist movement tends to disdain professional sports, mainly because the big leagues are filled with people of color and are closer to a meritocracy of talent than almost anything else in society. The NFL, for instance, has welcomed numerous athletes from Samoa ― where coincidentally The Daily Stormer recently transferred its domain. So when majority-minority sports leagues such as the NBA or the NFL suffer hardship, racists rejoice.
“This might be the first time ever in modern history that a major institution is going to be completely destroyed explicitly because of public outrage over their anti-White agenda,” Sol wrote after noting the news that Papa John’s was punishing the NFL for not cracking down on black dissent.
“Papa John: Official pizza of the alt-right?” Sol wondered.
This isn’t the first time the alt-right Nazis at The Daily Stormer have tried to claim a brand as their own to piggyback their hate on a mainstream product and to stoke outrage. Last November, they threatened to take New Balance sneakers away from hipsters after the company’s vice president of public affairs, in response to a question about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, expressed optimism about what might happen with the deal under a Trump presidency. (New Balance is the only major company that still makes athletic shoes in the United States.) In January, Andrew Anglin, the proprietor of The Daily Stormer, declared Wendy’s the “official burger of the Neo-Nazi Alt-Right movement” after a flack at the fast food company posted an image of Pepe the frog in red pigtails on its official Twitter feed.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie has had his “clinging to their Bibles and guns” moment, telling donors he considers northern Virginia “enemy territory” for the race-baiting negative campaign he has run.
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It’s in Two Corinthians, blogger Joe.My.God says:
And lo did Jesus say, “I did try to fuck her. She was married. I moved on her like a bitch.”
A tarted-up televangelical- “not a 10” in MOTUS-speak- is taking up for the Vulgarian-in-Chief:
Colbert said that Christians who oppose Trump because of his use of “rough language” must also “have a problem with Jesus because he spoke to the Pharisees and Sadducees and said, ‘You vipers, you snakes.’ He referred to Herod as a fox and then there is the account of the woman he called a dog. So if you want to find offense, you’ll find offense in anything.”
Colbert said that Trump “is a man of his word, he says what he means and he means what he says. Well, what character does that imitate? Who is that? God. God says what He means and He means what He says, so I believe that God saw in the character of Donald Trump a fighter.”
“The church has had its butt kicked for the last 100 years,” Colbert said, adding that God chose a brawler like Trump because He knew that America could not survive with a “mamsy-wamsy, love and peace kind of a president.”
Colbert said that Trump “is a man of his word, he says what he means and he means what he says. Well, what character does that imitate? Who is that? God. God says what He means and He means what He says, so I believe that God saw in the character of Donald Trump a fighter.”
“The church has had its butt kicked for the last 100 years,” Colbert said, adding that God chose a brawler like Trump because He knew that America could not survive with a “mamsy-wamsy, love and peace kind of a president.”
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Notes from The Authoritarian Apprentice: What Links Two Opposing Contradictory Thoughts? Elimination of Courts, Just Like North Carolina Is Doing
Trump, who said he would consider sending Saipov to the Guantanamo Bay military prison, told reporters the US must "come up with punishment that's far quicker and far greater than the punishment these animals are getting right now."
"They'll go through court for years," he said. "And at the end, they'll be — who knows what happens. We need quick justice, and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. Because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock. And no wonder so much of this stuff takes place."
"They'll go through court for years," he said. "And at the end, they'll be — who knows what happens. We need quick justice, and we need strong justice, much quicker and much stronger than we have right now. Because what we have right now is a joke, and it's a laughingstock. And no wonder so much of this stuff takes place."
November 3:
The decision on Sergeant Bergdahl is a complete and total disgrace to our Country and to our Military.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 3, 2017
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