#New York Young Republicans Club

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Saturday that the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol “would’ve been armed” if she and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon had planned it.

Speaking at a gala for the New York Young Republicans Club, the far-right lawmaker appeared to hit back at claims that she was somehow involved in plotting the Capitol riot.

“Then Jan. 6 happened. And next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon here. And I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed,” Taylor Greene told the audience.

“See that’s the whole joke, isn’t it. They say that whole thing was planned and I’m like, are you kidding me? A bunch of conservatives, second amendment supporters, went in the Capitol without guns, and they think that we organized that?” Taylor Greene added, per footage shared online.

Greene, an outspoken ally of former President Trump, has long espoused his false claims of fraud during the 2020 presidential election. She was questioned earlier this year by the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 over her role in efforts to stop the certification of President Biden’s win.

Many supporters of Trump who came to Washington on Jan. 6 did bring weapons, and leaders of the Oath Keepers militia group were found guilty last month for seditious conspiracy. Members of the group allegedly stockpiled suitcases full of weapons at a Virginia hotel as part of its planning around that day.

On the morning of Jan. 6, Trump reportedly complained that some of his armed supporters were unable to join the crowd at his speech at the Ellipse, and then called on those same supporters to march to the Capitol, according to former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson.

Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club, told the audience at Saturday’s gala that Republicans “want war” against the left.

“We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets,” Wax said, as reported by the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

“This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power,” Wax added.

[know-news-is-good-news]

Well ! ! It's Wednesday ! For MAGAots, that's the day after Tuesday !

There were NO mobs anywhere ! ! None of Donny Boy's 74 million followers were following ! ! Well, OK ! ! There were a few New York Young Redumblicans in Manhattan that were cringing under the extreme pressure of Anti-Trump protesters at the same location !

The New York Young Redumblicans Club were expected to recover ! !

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“Three months after Rep. Lauren Boebert apologized for disruptive conduct at a Denver theater, the Colorado Republican attended a glitzy Republican gala headlined by former President Donald Trump in Manhattan, where her behavior once again raised eyebrows.

At the December soiree, which was the New York Young Republican Club’s annual gala, multiple witnesses saw a server tell Boebert they would not bring her any more alcohol, with one witness telling CNN the server told the congresswoman they believed she had been overserved. Throughout the night, Boebert also kept attempting to snap selfies with Trump, who was sitting at the same table as her. Eventually, Trump’s security detail stepped in and asked Boebert to stop, according to the witnesses, who attended the event and saw the interaction take place.”

BoBo the Clown was polling very poorly in her Republican primary but is now leading the pack due to Trump’s endorsement and a sizable war chest courtesy of oligarch benefactors. BoBo now has more money than all her Republican rivals combined.

[mojave-pete]

The woke America last crowd is scared to death about Trump getting into the White House!

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"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) seems to think the Jan. 6 insurrection was not adequately planned."

An excerpt of what she told attendees at the New York Young Republicans Club on Dec. 10, 2022:

“I want to tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I had organized that [Jan. 6 insurrection], we would have won. Not to mention, we would’ve been armed.”

In attendance were several conservative A-listers, including Donald Trump, Jr., Rudy Giuliani, and Roger Stone.

Source

[foreverlogical]

Some recent media coverage has drawn attention to the disappearance of public pools across the United States, and the deadly consequences of that disappearance. Right-wing media dude Erick Erickson sees an opening for outrage, because if you’re in the right-wing media, manufacturing outrage is your bread and butter.

“Starting to see more and more progressives demand public swimming pools,” Erickson tweeted. “Get ready for the next entitlement program.”

Erickson is clearly responding at least in part to a boomlet of media coverage of the decline of investment in public pools in the United States. CNN recently weighed in with some key facts: In 2015, there was one public pool per 34,000 people. That’s down to one per 38,000 people now. But that’s a very short time frame. Consider this: Around 20 years ago, Louisville, Kentucky, had 10 public pools for 550,000 people. Now it’s five for 640,000 people.

Much of the recent shift has been about disinvestment in public goods, things that benefit everyone, as Republicans push privatization of just about every possible government service. But if you go back a little further to the middle of the 20th century and desegregation, you get to some really ugly stuff. In some cities, there were full-on race riots as public pools were desegregated and Black people showed up to swim. In 1949 in St. Louis, for instance, a mob of thousands of white people showed up at the Fairground Park Pool as the first Black swimmers were allowed in. The pool was resegregated in response to the violence—Black people banned from swimming because of white people’s violence—and when it was integrated again the next year, white attendance plummeted. The pool closed six years later. Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., also had race riots over pool integration in the 1940s.

In some places, white people threw acid, bleach, or nails into pools to keep Black people out of them. Cities closed pools, filling them with concrete rather than countenancing integration. Swimming became a privatized activity, with the number of private swimming pools—at country clubs or at homes—soaring. Racism then fed into and combined with a pattern we see again and again: When rich people have access to something privately, public investment in it plummets.

When Erickson sneers about ”the next entitlement program,” he’s talking about something that has been in decline for decades as a direct result of two factors: racism and Republican economic policy.

The loss of public pools has deadly effects. In another of the pieces that likely spurred Erickson to try to manufacture outrage over the possibility of public pools, The New York Times’ Mara Gay recently wrote:

Drowning is the leading cause of death among 1- to 4-year-olds, the second-leading cause of accidental deaths by injury among children 5 to 14, and the third-leading cause of accidental death by injury for Americans 24 years and younger. Younger Black adolescents are more than three times as likely to drown as their white peers; Native American and Alaskan Native young adults are twice as likely to drown as white Americans. Eight in 10 drowning victims in the United States are male. Children with autism are 160 times as likely to drown or experience near-fatal drowning, a serious medical event that can cause severe and often permanent physical harm. The C.D.C. estimates that drowning costs the U.S. economy $53 billion each year.

That’s a lot of dead kids, and many of them are dead because there was nowhere safe for them to learn to swim. When it’s hot out—and thanks to climate change, it’s hotter and hotter—people tend to go in the water even if they don't know how to swim, and even if there are no safe options with qualified lifeguards. According to a 2017 study by the USA Swimming Foundation, 87% of people with no or low swimming ability nonetheless planned to go swimming that summer.Campaign Action

The same study found that 40% of white kids had little or no swimming ability, but that was true of 64% of Black kids. Low-income kids were also dramatically more likely to have little or no swimming ability—something you can directly tie to the privatization of swimming. If it costs money to learn to swim, and requires traveling outside your neighborhood to get to the pool, swimming becomes a luxury and a class-based skill.

People calling out these ugly facts is what spurred Erickson to be all incensed about “progressives” agitating for “the next entitlement program.” According to him, something that the United States invested in during the 1930s, building hundreds of public pools during the New Deal, and which gave shape to a defining feature of life for decades is now some kind of loony new idea.

Do you live near a public pool? If you look at where the public pools in your area are located, do you see racial inequalities? In your experience, are public pools more or less available now or when you were a kid?

[pennsyltuckyheathen]

Trump sycophant and female Trump wanna be, Margarine Tater Greens from the Looney-bin Caucus can’t help but constantly draw attention to herself with her dumb-ass words and actions.  Now she’s crossed the line by not only endorsing (and some claim assisting) the January 6th coup, she makes it into a call for violence.  Demented and dangerous.  Perpetually seeking attention so she can cash in before her constituents discover she’s the biggest fake they ever sent to Washington, DC.  

[absolute-immunities]

I'm really enjoying Elkins and McKitrick's The Age of Federalism (1993)

even its long excursuses are useful—as on the enduring cultural effects of the relocations from New York to Albany (1797), Philadelphia to Lancaster (1799), and from New York to Philadelphia (1790) and on to the District of Columbia (1800), which helped deny the United States enduring national culture, or works of genius to match those of the European capitals

(Massachusetts, which didn't remove the state capital from Boston, and cultivated the most enduring authors of the American nineteenth century, is, for Elkins and McKitrick, the exception that proves the rule)

they can be charming, too!

The cultural impact of France upon the United States has always been erratic and essentially limited. There has been nothing like a sustained intellectual intake; any inclination young Americans may have had to study for advanced degrees at the French universities in the post-Civil War decades -- at a time of vastly expanding professionalization in American life -- was discouraged by the French educational system itself. They drifted to the German universities instead. French importations, both literally and figuratively, tended to fall in the luxury class: cuisine, fashions, perfumery; even the literature was taken in somewhat furtively. Probably the most knowing and sympathetic American critic of French literature in the nineteenth century was Henry James, yet James had the profoundest reservations about the state of morals he saw reflected in it. Reading Musset, he recoiled at "ladies tumbling about on disordered couches, and pairs of lovers who take refuge from an exhausted vocabulary in biting each other." French tastes in American literature, on the other hand (when they noticed it at all), have generally left Americans somewhat bemused. The French took up Poe and Whitman for dubious motives (as an aspect of the case for Symbolism), and their infatuation for Hemingway, Steinbeck, Caldwell, and Dos Passos in the late 1940s struck American critics as being, by then, rather on the nutty side.

The young Henry Adams spent a number of months in Paris in 1860. It was the first of many visits he would make there throughout his life. He went even though, as he explains in the Education, he "disliked the Empire and the Emperor most particularly, but . . . he disliked most the French mind." But, he continues, "the curious result followed that, being in no way responsible for the French and sincerely disapproving them he felt at liberty to enjoy to the full everything he disapproved. Stated thus crudely, the idea sounds derisive; but as a matter of fact, several thousand Americans passed much of their time there on this understanding." The qualification: "France was not serious, and he was not serious in going there."

France was not serious. Neither Adams, nor his great-grandfather, nor even his great-grandfather's friend Jefferson -- to say nothing of the thousands of Americans who came after them -- would ever quite be rid of that suspicion.

this leads in to a survey of the responses of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Gouverneur Morris, and Thomas Paine to the French Revolution, ending with Paine's opposition to the execution of Louis Capet:

The culminating scene in Paine's short career as a legislator, the one that shows him at his most attractive and at the same time most American, was his supreme effort to save the King's life. The speech Paine made before the Convention at Louis's trial in January 1793, translated and read by another deputy, laid out an altogether logical case. He declared that he had opposed monarchy on principle all his public life, that he had helped to form a republican club in Paris well before such sentiments were popular, and that he had believed the Constituent Assembly should have grasped the chance to get rid of monarchy at the time of the King's flight to Varennes in June 1791 instead of welcoming him back. He had voted, moreover, to bring Louis to trial in order to demonstrate the corrupting force, on any man, of monarchy. But this had now been proven. Why, then, take vengeance upon Louis Capet, the man? The Convention ought to consider the disadvantages of his upbringing, and how he might have turned out if he had been raised in more virtuous circumstances. Why not, Paine urged, rehabilitate Louis by banishing him to the United States? "There, hereafter, far removed from the miseries and crimes of royalty, he may learn, from the constant aspect of public prosperity, that the true system of government consists not in kings, but in fair, equal, and honorable representation."

After the verdict of death was voted by the narrowest of margins, Paine made a final plea for reprieve. He pointed out that in America Louis's execution would cause "universal sorrow," and urged the Convention "not thus to wound the feelings of your ally." But whatever likelihood there may have been of Paine's tipping the balance was in effect shattered by the murderous Marat, who threw all into disorder by screaming that Thomas Paine, being a Quaker and against all capital punishment on principle, was not qualified to vote on the case.

And yet the vote, being as narrow as it was, gives no true measure of Paine's actual isolation -- either from the feelings that led up to the sentence or from the needs that gave a kind of inevitability to its being carried out. Thomas Paine was probably more totally alienated from monarchy, and from the very idea of monarchy, than any man in the National Convention. But that was just the trouble. For him, the entire question had been settled eighteen years before; for them, as yet nothing was settled. It is quite likely that in order for the Revolution to continue, having reached the point where it now was, the execution of Louis XVI was the only course possible. For generations of Frenchmen it was not simply government that had been embodied in the sovereign, but France herself, and although the authority of Louis XVI had fearfully eroded by 1793, the mystical essence of kingship lingered in the very air. If monarchy were to be truly done away with, the point of no return having now passed, a total gesture was imperative. It had to be shown that Louis had committed treason against France -- he had plotted with the émigrés and foreign princes to overturn the Revolution -and after that, there was no way to justify not punishing him. The most logical way now to nullify the divinity of kings was by judicial execution.

The emotions in the Convention on both sides of the question -- the fear, the ferocity, the inhibitions, the horror -- all betrayed one or another aspect of this knowledge. Paine's was the only vote given in true detachment; the magic of kingship had never touched him. Back in 1776 Thomas Paine had taken part, as one writer has suggested, in the symbolic "killing" of George III. Perhaps true, but no more than symbolic. For him, and for most other Americans, no other kind of killing was needed or desired. Nor was it now. (Paine was quite right about the effect Louis's execution would have in America.) Still, this was a profoundly un-French view of the case. Thomas Paine as a legislator may have had more of a technical right than John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, or Gouverneur Morris to advise the French on how to manage their revolution. Whether he was any better qualified to do so is another question. He saw himself as a "citizen of the world," but all that this came to in practice was universalizing the Spirit of 1776.

With the triumph of the Jacobins, most of Paine's Girondin friends would go to the guillotine before the year 1793 was out, and Paine himself would be thrown into prison. While there, he completed The Age of Reason, an attack on all organized religion and orthodox scriptural doctrine. Paine certainly believed in a Creator, though the ambiguous spiritual life of his childhood -- his father a Quaker, his mother an Anglican -- could not otherwise have left him with strongly settled convictions. Nor was the work at all inconsistent with his political writings. He had always been against establishments; the Creator himself, moreover, had been invested with too many kingly pomps and fictions, and reason demanded that these be pulled away. A further occasion for writing it was the rising tide of atheism in France, which he deplored. But now, whether he understood it or not, Paine was at last cutting his ties with America. He was making a direct assault on the forms in which most Americans worshiped, and with this he had gone too far. They drew away, and Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry were among the patriots of the Revolution who now denounced him. The subsequent legend in America of Tom Paine the "radical" -- insofar as radicalism meant something extreme and dangerous -- was based not on his political and social doctrines, but on his alleged "infidelity."

After the execution of the King and with the onset of the Terror, Thomas Paine became more and more disillusioned and cynical, and would continue so even after his own release. Not about revolutions in general, which he still thought of in universal -- that is, American -- terms, but about this revolution in particular. This one was French, and France, alas, was not serious.

which leads right in to an account of Citizen Genêt's 1793 mission to America—delightful!

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A collection of radical right figures including white nationalists and ultranationalist European leaders gathered in Manhattan for the New York Young Republicans Club’s (NYYRC) annual gala Saturday night, where that group’s president declared “total war” on perceived enemies.

“We want to cross the Rubicon. We want total war. We must be prepared to do battle in every arena. In the media. In the courtroom. At the ballot box. And in the streets,” NYYRC President Gavin Wax declared to a room full of supporters at 583 Park Ave., an event venue on New York’s Upper East side.

“This is the only language the left understands. The language of pure and unadulterated power,” Wax added.

At the five-hour event, which Hatewatch reporters attended, white nationalists Peter and Lydia Brimelow of VDARE hobnobbed with Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser and White House official. Donald Trump Jr. was also in attendance.

Republicans publicly lauded members of an Austrian political party founded by World War II-era German Nazi party members. Racist political operative Jack Posobiec shared jokes across a table with Josh Hammer, the opinion editor of Newsweek. Multiple recently elected GOP congresspeople applauded Marjorie Taylor Greene, who told the NYYRC crowd in the event’s closing remarks that the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol would have succeeded if she had planned it and that the insurrectionists would have been armed.

“Then Jan. 6 happened. And next thing you know, I organized the whole thing, along with Steve Bannon,” Greene said, referring to allegations that she had led reconnaissance tours of the Capitol for soon-to-be insurrectionists in the days prior to the violence.

“I will tell you something, if Steve Bannon and I organized that, we would have won,” she said, as attendees erupted in cheers and applause. “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed.”

WHITE NATIONALISTS AND NEOFASCISTS IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

Republican speakers repeatedly voiced an anti-democracy, authoritarian ideology, and extremists in the audience cheered wildly. White nationalists such as the Brimelows of VDARE and leaders from extreme far right European parties like Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD), whom German officials placed under surveillance for their ties to extremism, and Austrian Freedom Party (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ), ate and drank in the same room as newly elected Republican congresspeople, such as Long Island and Queens-based George Santos, Georgia-based Mike Collins and Florida-based Cory Mills.

Hatewatch reached out to Santos and Mills by email before the event about their willingness to appear in a global collection of radical right, anti-democracy activists. They did not reply. Hatewatch reached out to Collins on Sunday morning but had not received a response at press time.

A STEVE BANNON SELFIE FOR VDARE

Bannon, the former Trump adviser, physically embraced the white nationalist Brimelows at NYYRC, spoke to the couple for several minutes and took a selfie with them. VDARE traffics in the great replacement conspiracy theory and has published defenses of writings that a terrorist who gunned down 24 people in an El Paso Wal-Mart in 2019 allegedly authored. Peter Brimelow attended the white supremacist American Renaissance conference in November, whose host has portrayed Black people as being subhuman. The Brimelows publish writing authored by Jason Kessler, who helped organize the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

When Hatewatch attempted to speak to Lydia Brimelow after her conversation with Bannon to inquire about it, she walked away. Hatewatch did not get close enough to Bannon to ask him about the encounter with Peter and Lydia Brimelow.

‘PIZZAGATE’ JACK DESCENDS ON NEW YORK CITY

Posobiec, a radical right political operative, resides with his wife Tanya Posobiec in Hanover, Maryland. The couple took Amtrak Northeast Regional train 88 into New York’s Penn Station Moynihan Hall on Saturday afternoon to get to the NYYRC gala. Train 88 pulled in at around 3:45 PM ET, and a Hatewatch reporter observed Posobiec and his wife deboard and enter New York City.

“Antifa, don’t even think about it tonight,” Posobiec posted to Twitter three hours later, at 6:39 PM ET, with the location of the tweet marked Manhattan, NY.

NYYRC gave Posobiec a speaking slot and an Allen W. Dulles award, named after the former head of the CIA. NYYRC said in its December bulletin that the award is given to “an individual who embodies the virulent anti-Marxist spirit of [Dulles].”

Like the Brimelows, Posobiec has a well-documented history of radical right activism. He has boasted of his ties to the antigovernment Oath Keepers, fraternized with the Proud Boys, and at least twice, filmed propaganda videos with a pair of neo-Nazi brothers. He is primarily known for pushing the #Pizzagate disinformation campaign, which falsely suggested that Democrats ran a pedophile dungeon in the basement of a Washington, D.C., pizzeria.

Hatewatch spoke with Posobiec around midnight at the NYYRC event and asked him about his involvement in pushing the #StoptheSteal hashtag onto Twitter during the runup to the 2020 election. Although “Stop the Steal” became synonymous with the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building, Posobiec started tweeting the hashtag from his over-1-million-follower account as early as Sept. 7, 2020, two full months before anyone tallied any votes.

While responding to Hatewatch at NYYRC, Posobiec first attempted to associate the hashtag with Roger Stone and then with Ali Alexander, two of his collaborators. Then he called it “a meme.” He never explained why he abruptly started posting the hashtag in September 2020.

While answering questions, Posobiec grew testy with a Hatewatch reporter and described SPLC as a “domestic terror organization.” Posobiec called that reporter a “scumbag” and a “troll.” After Posobiec’s speaking tone became palpably agitated, a crowd formed and NYYRC executive secretary Viswanag “Vish” Burra escorted both Hatewatch reporters to the exit, physically shoving one of them.

NEWSWEEK FLAUNTS ITS RADICAL-RIGHT CREDENTIALS

Starting in May 2020, after editor Nancy Cooper and chief content officer Dayan Candappa brought political activist Josh Hammer to run Newsweek’s opinion section, the 90-year-old publication has emerged as a hub for opinion pieces authored by radical right activists. Newsweek has published the extremist Posobiec as well as 2020 election-lie pusher Raheem Kassam in recent years, and Hammer has also hosted both of them on his Newsweek-branded podcast. The three men sat together talking and laughing at table #6 during the NYYRC event, near the stage.

When QAnon influencer-turned-congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene took the stage, Hammer stood up and applauded. When she endorsed former President Trump as her 2024 presidential candidate of choice, Posobiec turned to Hammer and grinned. In January, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis invited Hammer on a tour of his office, and the Florida-based Newsweek editor has since hyped DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate.

“You gonna go up there, Josh?” Posobiec chided Hammer about Greene’s endorsement of Trump, eliciting laughter from the table.

A Hatewatch reporter approached Hammer after Greene’s speech, made an introduction and asked if he knew Peter Brimelow of VDARE.

“He’s right here, right now?” Hammer asked with excitement.

“I didn’t even know he was here!” Hammer said of the infamous white nationalist publisher. “I’m going to say Hi.”

The Hatewatch reporter asked Hammer how he got his job at Newsweek, and the opinion editor abruptly stopped talking. He asked the reporter to identify himself again. When the reporter did, Hammer’s expression slackened. He quickly claimed he did not know Peter Brimelow and left.

‘WHAT’S RACIST ABOUT PROJECT VERITAS?’

Multiple figures associated with Project Veritas, the hard-right propaganda group that engages in sting operations, attended the NYYRC gala. The group’s founder James O’Keefe and Project Veritas board member Matthew Tyrmand hobnobbed with NYYRC guests Saturday.

Legal trouble has entangled Project Veritas in recent months. Former associates sued Project Veritas in August, citing the creation of a “highly sexualized” work environment, which they claim included substance abuse and unpaid labor. (The group has denied these allegations.) In September, a jury in a civil case found that Project Veritas had “violated wiretapping laws and fraudulently misrepresented itself” during a sting operation targeting a group called Democracy Partners. The FBI raided O’Keefe’s home in November 2021 as part of an investigation into the alleged theft of a diary belonging to President Joe Biden’s daughter Ashley. (The group has claimed that they acted lawfully in obtaining the diary.)

Outside of the building on 583 Park Ave., O’Keefe argued with antifascist protesters, according to footage reviewed by Hatewatch. A different, self-described “independent video journalist” posted a series of clips to Twitter at 8:15 p.m., showing O’Keefe asking antifascist protesters on the corner of Park Avenue and 62nd Street, “What’s racist about Project Veritas?”

The same social media user posted a video to Twitter at 9:12 p.m. In it, O’Keefe could be seen standing on the street outside the venue alongside several other men, including Newsweek’s Hammer.

“Would you like to make a tax-deductible donation to Project Veritas?” O’Keefe asked the protesters.

Hatewatch observed Project Veritas’ Tyrmand sitting at table #4, the one closest to the center of the stage, alongside Trump-world power players Steve Bannon and former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani. A recent New York Times report named Tyrmand and Bannon as key U.S. figures in an effort to depict Brazil’s November presidential elections as being fraudulent, after voters in that country pushed hard-right favorite Jair Bolsonaro out of office. Tyrmand, who is known for his ties to the global radical right, took the stage and lauded the ultranationalist European leaders in attendance.

“This is an all-star room, and I urge all of you to meet everybody here and continue to spend time together, getting to know each other, so we can fight the battle, arm in arm,” Tyrmand said of the European extremists, including the contingents from Austria and Germany.

ALMOST MIDNIGHT

Speakers including Trump Jr. and Greene sought to downplay the Republicans’ failure to secure a so-called “red wave” victory in the 2022 midterms by attacking such familiar right-wing targets as Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and LGBTQ+ people.

“The party is in a pretty good spot, but America may not be getting it. We have a party right now that is actually delivering for the American people. But what we don’t have [is] our same people in Washington, who can make those things happen,” Donald Trump Jr. told the crowd after he came on stage.

Greene suggested eliminating Democrat members of House committees in her closing speech, as a way of shifting the tide of power in Washington. She also told the audience Americans it was “almost midnight,” meaning they risked losing their country to perceived enemies.

Greene praised a Project Veritas video focused on LGBTQ+ education published by the group, saying it shows that teachers “pass around dildos, buttplugs and lube.” (The school issued a statement claiming “[Project] Veritas deceptively edited the video with malicious intent.”)

Greene expressed her gratitude to Project Veritas for their work.

“Thank you very much. We appreciate that,” she said to scattered applause.

[leaves-lilies-and-esther]

Reasons we still need feminism (in the US!)

Because out of every 1,000 sexual assaults, only 25 perpetrators will be incarcerated (RAINN)

Because our politicians feel comfortable saying that "if it's inevitable, just enjoy it" (Clayton Williams) and "when you're a star, they let you do it" (Donald Trump)

Because female survivors are routinely accused of lying, even though only 6% of rape accusations are false (meaning that 9/10 are true) (Lisak et al 2010).

Because the US is one of the only countries in the world without maternity leave

Because Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, South Carolina, and Texas all have abortion restrictions modeled on the scientifically inaccurate heartbeat bill (Scientific American)

Because women are already being prosecuted for miscarriages as a result of these rules- even when experts can't prove that their actions caused the stillbirth (google Marshae Jones, Brittney Poolaw)

Because in Arizona, Arkansas, Missouri, Florida, and Texas, you cannot get divorced while pregnant. Meanwhile, the leading cause of death for pregnant women is homicide because of domestic violence (Healthline).

Because women are frequently blocked from getting their tubes tied because they're young/haven't had enough children/ are unmarried. Men never share similar stories

Because people are already advocating against contraception. Idaho's No Public Funds for Abortion Act includes Plan B. Missouri Republicans tried to ban public funding for IUDs and contraception (along with many other examples from Slate)

Because women's pain is not taken as seriously by doctors- 25% less likely to be prescribed opioids for acute abdominal pain, and 2x more likely to be diagnosed as 'mentally ill' for complaining of heart disease (Washington Post)

Because the "husband stitch" is a thing

Because women are routinely under-represented in clinical trials for medication, and get less effective healthcare as a result (The Guardian).

Because pads/tampons are taxed like luxuries

Because roughly 58% of Americans have viewed porn (Institute for Family Studies). We know this fuels sex trafficking. Moreover, exposure to violent pornography makes boys 2-3 times likelier to commit sexual assault (Rostad et al 19).

Because attending strip clubs and similar establishments is still relatively normalized, even though 90% of sex workers want to leave immediately but are unable to (National Organization for Men Against Sexism). Because sex workers are more likely to be homeless, are frequently assaulted, etc.

Because women aren't educated about their bodies to the extent that only half were told about birth control (Forbes). Because my health classes never discussed pelvic exams or breast self-exams. I bet yours didn't either.

Because magazine images are photoshopped until the models don't even look like the models.

Because women are sold a false image of their bodies to the extent that they feel uncomfortable leaving the house without makeup, and 46% of girls worry regularly about their appearance as compared to 25% of boys (Mental Health Foundation).

Because we're told that over-sexualizing yourself at a young age is 'empowering', even though it has outcomes such as depression, disordered eating, and reduced productivity (New York University).

Because we're more likely to encourage our daughters to break gender norms than we are to encourage boys. We still view the feminine as inferior.

Because in 78% of films, the main character was male. And even when the movie is about women, the majority of the dialogue goes to men (Vox).

Because women are 28.7% of the house of representatives in 2023 (Wikipedia) despite being like 51.1% of the population. Because the US has never had a female president.

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[pynkhues]

The point is after the dreams of DC start, they don’t fucking stop.

Grow in detail, regularity, texture until it’s not chandeliers and attention but Joyce bitching about voters in Arizona, Darren kicking the printer as it jams for the fourth time in a row, stealing Holly’s sweet potato fries at the National Democratic Club while she pressed her thigh into Nate’s beneath the table. It’s cheap drugs and cold beer and warm fingers unbuttoning her blouse, it’s late night calls and notes for debate and stats that’ll etch themselves into the wall of her skull until they're out of date. It’s the fucking work. The rush of a new angle, a new lead, the thrill of showing up, showing off, grinning every time a pencil pusher made a snide comment about her last name, telling every skinny-tied Politico fuck that my father and I respect each other’s opinions, we enjoy the debate, we might not cross party lines, but trust me, we know how to party.

The way she’d get them every time – a smile, a laugh, a conspiratorial look, like hey, who among us doesn’t fight family at Thanksgiving?

Like she could hold court out here in a city that felt like it might belong to her in all the ways New York didn’t, and that mattered, that felt good. Felt real, felt like it made her real in return, and maybe that had mattered too, that he’d seen it once. Not their father, but Kendall. How he’d been sent out for a meeting with some Republican lawmaker, playing errand boy for Dad, as usual, and he’d texted her after and they’d met up at some bar that served caramel popcorn and pumpkin ale, and she still remembers the moment in every stupid, ugly detail.

The way it had been awkward at first, weird to see each other in her territory instead of his, the way he’d seemed young and narrow shouldered in his grey suit, his tie loose and his hair unkempt like he’d run his hands through it too many times. Remembers the way they’d had a drink and swapped small talk about Rava and the kids, barely out of diapers then, and her own boyfriend at the time, and she’d been almost ready to make excuses, to leave when she’d had a call from Joyce. Some fuck-up with the speech notes for an event Darren was supposed to be managing, and she remembers the way she steered her temper, guided her through, remembers Kendall watching across the booth, eyes easy as he thumbed the label on his beer, the way she’d felt almost nervous with him as her audience, which hadn’t made any fucking sense.

The way she’d felt it sharp as anything. The desire to impress him, which fine, she wanted him to go home and tell Dad she was killing it, but - - maybe not too. Maybe it was him too. Maybe she wanted it in a place she couldn’t name, when she hung up and he said:

“You’re good at that.”

His voice was deep in that way it got when he was feeling earnest, and she’d hated it. The way something in her had sparked bright, the way she’d had to hide her smile, grabbing her beer to press to her lips until she could school her look into something smug instead of real.

“Obviously.”

“Obviously,” he’d replied, cloying, faltering with a bad impression, and Shiv had thrown a piece of caramel popcorn at his face that he’d thrown back, a smile tugging at his lips, easy in that way he never was, and yeah, okay. It had just - - felt like something.

They’d ordered another round.

[nodynasty4us]

From the March 20, 2023 article:

Law authorities are gearing up for an unprecedented arrest that would see an ex-leader of the free world fingerprinted and possibly even handcuffed.

...

The New York Young Republican Club announced a "peaceful protest" of Bragg's "heinous attack" on Trump for 6:00 pm (2000 GMT) in lower Manhattan Monday but it was unclear how many would turn out.

(ground.news claims that this story has not been reported in left-leaning media.)

[therealtruthalways]

If Trump is arrested there will be a civil war for the evidence against the corrupt Biden family is overwhelming and nothing has been done even after proof of Millions funnel to the Bidens family from China.

New York Young Republican Club Planning Protest if Trump is Arrested

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/new-york-young-republican-club-planning-protest-if-trump-is-arrested/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-york-young-republican-club-planning-protest-if-trump-is-arrest

[meandmybigmouth]

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