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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
From the developing What the Fuck Just Happened Today feed:
A former GOP congressional candidate in Madison, Wisconsin was arrested for "trying to buy radioactive material with the intent to kill someone." Jeremy Ryan, who ran against House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2014 and ran again in the 2018 primaries, was arrested for allegedly attempting to buy a "lethal dose of a radioactive substance" online between March and October 2018. Ryan's target has not been identified by police, and he is currently facing up to life in prison if convicted. (Daily Beast / WKOW)A former GOP congressional candidate in Madison, Wisconsin was arrested for "trying to buy radioactive material with the intent to kill someone." Jeremy Ryan, who ran against House Speaker Paul Ryan in 2014 and ran again in the 2018 primaries, was arrested for allegedly attempting to buy a "lethal dose of a radioactive substance" online between March and October 2018. Ryan's target has not been identified by police, and he is currently facing up to life in prison if convicted. (Daily Beast / WKOW)
... Jesus, that must've been a confusing race. "Vote for me, Ryan. Not the other Ryan. Godammit!"
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Caitlyn Jenner Washinton Post Op-Ed: I thought Trump would help the LGBTQ community; I was wrong.
Since then, I have learned and continue to learn about the obstacles our community faces, the politics that surround us and the places my voice can help. I have reflected on what my unique position of privilege means and how I can best use it to make a positive difference.
Following Trump’s election as president, I saw fertile ground for change within the Republican Party on LGBTQ issues. Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate to claim to support this valuable, vulnerable community, and I was encouraged by the applause he received when he said at the Republican National Convention in July 2016 that he would stand up for the LGBTQ community. Poll after poll showed that Americans’ views on LGBTQ issues were changing for the better — and that this groundswell extended even to the voter base of the Republican Party. I was optimistic that this was how I could leverage my privilege for change.
I believed I could work within the party and the Trump administration to shift the minds of those who most needed shifting. I made many trips to Washington to lobby and educate members of Congress, other Washington policymakers and powerful influencers. These meetings were generally positive and almost always led to encouraging conversations. Despite the criticism I received from segments of the LGBTQ community for engaging with this administration, I remained hopeful for positive change.
Sadly, I was wrong. The reality is that the trans community is being relentlessly attacked by this president. The leader of our nation has shown no regard for an already marginalized and struggling community. He has ignored our humanity. He has insulted our dignity. He has made trans people into political pawns as he whips up animus against us in an attempt to energize the most right-wing segment of his party, claiming his anti-transgender policies are meant to “protect the country.” This is politics at its worst. It is unacceptable, it is upsetting, and it has deeply, personally hurt me.
Believing that I could work with Trump and his administration to support our community was a mistake. The recently leaked Department of Health and Human Services memo that suggests — preposterously and unscientifically — that the government ought to link gender to one’s genitalia at birth is just one more example in a pattern of political attacks. One doesn’t need to look back far to witness the president assault our nation’s guardians with a ban on trans people serving in the military or assail our nation’s future with a rollback of Obama-era protections for trans schoolchildren.
It’s clear these policies have come directly from Trump, and they have been sanctioned, passively or actively, by the Republicans by whose continued support he governs. My hope in him — in them — was misplaced, and I cannot support anyone who is working against our community. I do not support Trump. I must learn from my mistakes and move forward.
I am more determined than ever to find the best way to bring trans issues to the fore of our social and political conversation, domestically and abroad. I need to listen more to the members of the LGBTQ community and to learn more. I need to better use my voice, my privilege and my foundation to advocate for and support our community.
I must continue to educate political and corporate leaders about the issues of homelessness, job discrimination, violence, access to health care, prejudice in housing, depression, suicide and so many other issues that disproportionately affect our long-ignored community. I will still work with anyone who is committed to help our community.
The world needs to hear us. The world needs to know us. We will not be erased.
My opinion on the subject is that Jenner became the international butt of the transgender community due to siding with a bigot.
For a person with some genuine amazing accomplishments in their life who did make a big change in their life—I imagine that stung.
Whether it's too little, too late, I won't begrudge they did it. I'm not their audience, though, as a straight cis male.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.People, particularly his supporters, missed that Trump did make numerous statements that he didn't care about transgender people using the bathroom of their choice and thought it was a ridiculous waste of time to persecute them.
Because Trump is a liar.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I recall Trump making some vague statement that the LGBT community should vote for him instead of Clinton because 'what has Clinton done for YOU lately?' or something to that effect. I don't even know if that's true or not - Clinton not having done anything for LGBT folk, I mean.
Those sell-by-dates won't stop me because I can't read!![]()
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I can believe Trump doesn't care about those things. But "not caring" isn't the same thing as "willing to defend". It just means he'll go with whatever he thinks makes him look better/the people around him tell him is good.
Equating indifference with protectiveness just sounds like pure wishful-thinking.
He is a liar...though to be fair it wouldn't surprise me much if he was simply indifferent to LGBT people one way or the other.
Leviticus 19:34"Its an educational story that fame, wealth, and privilege will not protect you from the determined bigot.
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I will said is quite the contrary, jennifer was kinda shield by a lot of what other transpeople face by having wealth, fame and privilage on for the right and the left(since she is usually conservative) which one can said it let to her thinking trump would help LGTB people.
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/25/day-644/
Day 644: Boring
1/ Trump dismissed a report that Chinese and Russian spies were eavesdropping on his cellphone conversations, calling the report "boring" and "soooo wrong!" Trump's aides have repeatedly warned him that his calls from his personal iPhone are not secure and that Chinese and Russian spies are listening, but Trump refuses to give up his iPhone. U.S. officials said they have been concerned for months that Trump discusses sensitive information on an unsecured cellphone with informal advisers, including Sean Hannity of Fox News. "I only use Government Phones," Trump tweeted in response to the reports, "and have only one seldom used government cell phone." (New York Times / NBC News)
📌 Chinese and Russian spies are routinely eavesdropping on Trump's cellphone calls, despite aides repeatedly warning him that his personal iPhone is not secure. (Day 643)
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/24/day-643/#7-chinese-and-russian-spies-are-rout
China suggested that Trump exchange his iPhone for a cellphone made by Chinese manufacturer Huawei, "if they are really concerned about security issues." (Talking Points Memo)
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/china-denies-nyt-trump-iphone-spying-report
Trump's tweet claiming that he only uses his government phones was sent from an iPhone. Trump has two iPhones: one for Twitter and other basic web apps, and one for making phone calls. (Yahoo News)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweet-claiming-apos-only-181337023.html
2/ At least 10 pipe bombs have been sent to high-profile Democrats and critics of Trump: George Soros, Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, Eric Holder, John Brennan, Maxine Waters, and Robert De Niro. All of the 10 packages that have been discovered had the return address for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a Democratic congresswoman from Florida. None of the packages exploded. (Reuters / Washington Post / New York Times)
Two suspicious packages addressed to Joe Biden were intercepted at post offices in Delaware. Law enforcement officials are trying to track down the package, which has been deemed suspicious because one of them was misaddressed and shipped to the return address, just like some of the other packages. (CNN / The Hill)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/bombs-suspicious-packages-what-we-know/index.html
Two suspicious packages were intercepted on their way to Maxine Waters. (Reuters)
Another suspicious package was sent to a restaurant owned by Robert De Niro. The device arrived at the Tribeca Grill in Manhattan early Thursday morning. (BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45975447
The explosive device sent to CNN's offices in New York included an ISIS flag meme that has been circulating in right-wing online circles since 2014. The image features a black flag with the Arabic symbols replaced by the silhouettes of three women and an inscription in the middle that reads, "Get 'Er Done," which is comedian Larry the Cable Guy's catchphrase. (NBC News)
3/ Trump blamed the "Mainstream Media" and "Fake News" for the "anger" in the U.S. a day after CNN and Democrats were the targets of explosive devices. "A very big part of the Anger we see today in our society is caused by the purposely false and inaccurate reporting of the Mainstream Media that I refer to as Fake News," Trump tweeted. "It has gotten so bad and hateful that it is beyond description. Mainstream Media must clean up its act, FAST!" (New York Times / Washington Post / CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/trump-blames-media-for-anger-after-attacks/index.html
Lou Dobbs: suspicious packages mailed to Democrats and CNN are "fake news." He called them "fake bombs" in a tweet, which he later deleted. (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/media/lou-dobbs-fake-bombs/index.html
Newt Gingrich: The media has "earned" the label "the enemy of the people." (Axios)
4/ Saudi Arabia's public prosecutor claimed that Jamal Khashoggi's murder was now "premeditated." Saudi officials have shifted the official story of his disappearance, saying that Khashoggi left the consulate alive, that he might have been the target of "rogue" agents, and that he had been killed accidentally in fistfight. (New York Times / Washington Post)
The Saudi intelligence chief blamed for the murder of Khashoggi met with Michael Flynn and members of the transition team shortly before Trump's inauguration. Gen. Ahmed Al-Assiri and the team discussed a strategy for eroding and ending the current Iranian regime. The January meetings have also come under scrutiny by Robert Mueller's office as part of his probe. (Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/saudi-spy-met-with-team-trump-about-taking-down-iran
5/ Text messages show that Roger Stone tried to get a presidential pardon for Julian Assange. In January, Stone texted Randy Credico that he is "working with others to get JA a blanket pardon. It's very real and very possible. Don't fuck it up." Stone claims that Credico was his back channel to Wiki Leaks during the 2016 campaign, a claim Credico denies. (Mother Jones)
Mueller's team is investigating whether Jerome Corsi knew stolen emails would be leaked and passed information about them to Roger Stone. Mueller has obtained communications suggesting that Corsi might have had advance knowledge that the emails of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman had been stolen and handed to Wiki Leaks. (NBC News)
Notables.
Trump is preparing to order at least 800 Army troops to the southern border to help border patrol authorities stop a caravan of migrants from Central America moving through Mexico toward the U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to sign deployment orders as soon as today. (CNN / NBC News / New York Times)
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/25/politics/mattis-troops-southern-border/index.html
Chuck Grassley referred Michael Avenatti and his client Julie Swetnick to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, alleging that they made "materially false" statements to the Senate Judiciary Committee about Brett Kavanaugh. (CNBC / Politico / Axios / Washington Post)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/25/grassley-avenatti-swetnick-criminal-probe-940581
Trump plans to propose changes to how Medicare pays for certain drugs. The move is meant to address the issue of "foreign freeloaders," who he says drive up the cost of healthcare in the U.S. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/25/trump-medicare-drug-prices-plan-888607
A former GOP congressional candidate in Wisconsin was arrested for "trying to buy radioactive material with the intent to kill someone." Jeremy Ryan, who ran against Paul Ryan in 2014, was arrested for allegedly attempting to buy a "lethal dose of a radioactive substance" online between March and October 2018 and is facing up to life in prison if convicted. (Daily Beast / WKOW)
you beat me to that!
Is it bad that I can’t help hearing that in a Valley Girl accent?
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Important note about those troops being sent to the border. That being that they will purely be there for logistical support and will not aid in any actual law enforcement whatsoever. In other words, they're not actually going to be doing anything important. It's all one big stunt.
Edited by kkhohoho on Oct 25th 2018 at 6:52:48 AM

Popular right-wingers think the bombs are a ploy by the left/Antifa/Soros to smear the GOP.
And no one was surprised. It's kind of funny how they think we have any need to smear them when they're doing it just fine by themselves.