On Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 12:29:11 PM UTC-7, Technobarbarian wrote:
> "Republicans Are Clueless About Living in a Glass House"
>
> "Republicans’ race to take back the House and Senate has taken the
> strangest twist. The party has decided to make the midterms all about
> wild accusations surrounding pedophilia.
>
> That would be an unusual strategy under any circumstances, but truly
> bizarre considering the folks in politics most-associated with
> pedophilia are all Republicans.
>
> MAGAs to Conservatives: ‘You’re With Us or You’re a Groomer’
>
> Do they not remember Dennis Hastert—who was House Speaker for eight
> years—went to prison for abusing four boys and attempting to defraud a
> bank out of $3.5 million to keep one of them silent?
>
> Have they forgotten former Rep. Mark Foley, who tried to seduce teenage
> boys whom he met when they were congressional pages? What about Judge
> Roy Moore, who pursued girls as young as 13 when he was in his thirties
> so flagrantly that, according to numerous sources, he was banned from a
> local mall? (Even after the allegations against Moore were made public,
> then-President Donald Trump still backed him in his losing race for U.S.
> Senate from Alabama.)
>
> Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee “forgave” Josh Duggar, family values
> activist and star of 19 Kids and Counting after he admitted to molesting
> five young girls, two of them his own sisters. There’s no record of
> Huckabee’s forgiveness, or not, when six years later Duggar was arrested
> on child pronography charges for content the arresting agent called
> among the “worst of the worst" he’d ever seen, featuring as it did a
> baby just 18 months old.
>
> Sitting Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, a MAGA favorite, was once an assistant
> wrestling coach at Ohio State University in the 1990s. Members of those
> teams charged Jordan with refusing their appeals to stop Dr. Richard
> Strauss from sexually abusing them (Jordan denies these charges). Team
> captain Adam DiSabato testified before the Ohio legislature that Jordan
> called him “crying, groveling, begging me to go against my brother,
> begging me, crying for a half-hour. That’s the kind of cover-up that’s
> going on there." According to the AP, there were 2,200 instances of
> fondling and 127 instances of rape attributed to Strauss, who died in
> 2005. When a lawsuit against Ohio State, brought by nearly 300
> plaintiffs, goes to trial, the congressman may be called to account
> under oath for his actions, or lack of them.
>
> Republicans don’t shrink from hypocrisy. In 1997, House Speaker Newt
> Gingrich tried to drive Bill Clinton from the Oval Office for having an
> affair with an intern—all while Gingrich himself was having an affair
> with a committee staffer.
>
> Almost as crazy as accusing Democrats of what they’ve been doing
> themselves, is putting up candidates accused of different, but just as
> disturbing offenses.
>
> Republicans Say ‘Groomer’ to Put a Nice Face on Homophobia
>
> How could Republicans (including Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch
> McConnell) endorse the bid of former NFL star and reputed serial
> domestic abuser Herschel Walker’s to unseat Sen. Rafael Warnock in
> Georgia, unless they're blinded by needing to prove they’re not racist
> by backing a Black celebrity? Walker’s been credibly accused by his wife
> and girlfriend of threatening their lives—with his wife saying the
> Senate hopeful even put a gun to her head.
>
> Maybe Republicans know something we don’t, have something up their
> sleeve we can’t see, or have nothing else to say. It was clear that the
> party had dispensed with any coherent ideology on which to run when they
> declined to even put forward a platform in 2016.
>
> Meanwhile Rep. Marjoie Taylor Greene—notorious before she even took
> office for her QAnon sympathies—is screaming that anyone who votes for
> the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is “pro-pedophile,”
> including three Republicans."
> [snip]
>
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/republicans-clueless-living-glass-house-021351431.html
>
> ""Murkowski, Collins, and Romney are pro-pedophile. They just voted for
> #KBJ," tweeted Greene, a prominent member of the GOP's far right House
> faction whose political career has soared from stirring online controversy."
>
> TB

They are clueless even when they live in the White House bunker