Extreme Commanders

ixcuincle wrote: Wed Mar 19, 2025 9:14 pm

Civil political discourse?

Nah, Newsome read the room completely wrong. I think he may have dashed his hopes as president, I definitely don't want him anymore. This may blow over in four years, but it looks like this is going to be his "thing".

Sorry, anyone expecting civil political discourse, but doesn't object everything Trump does and says that's incivil is promoting a double standard.

Jay Kuo: This is a violation of the First Amendment.

China wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 6:11 pm

Jay Kuo: This is a violation of the First Amendment.

Haha! We're not the ones booing and chanting "tax the rich", its your "people".

After APR exposed David Cole’s fraud, Tuberville’s residency next in the crosshairs

he head of the Alabama Republican Party made it clear Tuesday: if U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville makes a run for governor, the “specifics” of his residency won’t be ignored. Years of Senate reimbursement filings, legal documents and public records will be dragged into the spotlight — and they’ll likely show exactly where “Coach” calls home when he’s not in Washington.

Appearing on The Jeff Poor Show, ALGOP Chairman John Wahl said he didn’t believe there was a “basis right now for a challenge on residency,” citing Tuberville’s nearly six years in the Senate and his yearlong campaign across the state prior to taking office. But despite Wahl’s claim, Tuberville didn’t take office until January 2021 — which means he’s been a senator for just over four years, not six.

But Alabama law doesn’t care about campaign stops or press tours. It requires a candidate for governor to have lived in the state for seven consecutive years prior to qualifying. And that’s where things could get interesting for Tuberville, who has been dogged by residency questions since he first floated the idea of running for governor.

APR reported Tuesday that Tuberville doesn’t personally own property in Alabama. He’s said — including in a 2023 interview following reporting from The Washington Post — that he lives in Auburn. The home in question is on Cherry Street, a 1,500-square-foot house valued just under $400,000, owned by his wife, Suzanne, and son, Tucker.

But should anyone file a challenge, Tuberville would have to do more than point to an address on paper. He’d have to prove — first to ALGOP officials and possibly to a court — that his primary residence is the modest Auburn home and not the $6 million, 4,000-square-foot beachfront mansion in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

And that’s a steep climb. In Alabama, residency for the purpose of qualifying for office isn’t about a name on a deed. Courts have been crystal clear: your primary residence is where you sleep, eat and keep most of your possessions.

In Tuberville’s case, that black letter of the law could become unavoidable. Legal documents filed by the Tubervilles in recent years list their residence as Old Beach Road in Santa Rosa, Fla. Years of Senate reimbursement filings and public records likely show exactly where he spends most of his time when not in Washington.

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While I'd love to see him not be able to get what he wants, I'd rather have him as Alabama governor than as a Senator.

Floridians with disabilities could lose important protections. Here’s why

In April 1977, hundreds of persons with disabilities descended on federal offices in eleven U.S. cities to protest the federal government’s failure to sign the enabling legislation of Section 504 of the 1973 Vocational Rehabilitation Act.

Section 504 was a landmark piece of legislation, giving equal protection under the law for persons with disabilities. Yet, without the regulations being signed into law, it could not be implemented. Tired of waiting for presidential action, people with disabilities took measures into their own hands and occupied federal offices in cities around the country. Most lasted a few days, but the San Francisco occupation lasted weeks, the longest take-over of federal office space in American history.

In Washington D.C. demonstrators picketed the suburban Maryland home of U.S. Health, Education, and Welfare secretary Joseph Califano, demanding “Sign or Resign.” Finally, on April 28, yielding to the demonstrators and public pressure, Califano signed the legislation.

504 was the most significant piece of legislation regarding persons with disabilities signed up to that date and it set the stage for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. Just as important, the coordinated activism of the demonstrators showed that individuals with a wide range of disabling conditions, from physical disabilities to blindness, from hearing impairments to mental illness, could work together for the common cause of improving their lives. Their slogan, “Nothing about Us, Without Us,” helped to reshape American society in both large and small ways.

Curb cuts, entrance ramps, handicapped parking spaces, inclusive classroom settings — all have become routinized parts of American life, benefitting not only those with disabilities, but all Americans. People with disabilities have become part of American society, no longer unseen in public spaces or relegated to back wards of institutions, now able to participate as full-fledged citizens. This is because of the advocacy and direct action of persons with disabilities and their allies. They have had to remain constantly vigilant, however, as groups have attacked 504 and the ADA for imposing ostensible onerous regulations and oversight on businesses and corporations. Now, another threat has emerged amid the culture wars of the current political scene. Last September, the state of Texas, under the direction of Attorney General Ken Paxton, filed a lawsuit in federal district court to have portions of 504 declared invalid and unconstitutional.

The suit was entitled Texas v Becarra (Xavier Becarra was the secretary of Health and Human Services under President Joe Biden). A joint status report update to the suit was filed on Feb. 19, 2025 and is now titled Texas v Kennedy (Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the current health secretary under President Donald Trump).

Sixteen other states joined Texas in both the suit and follow-up status report. Florida, under the auspices of state Attorney General James Uthmeier, has joined in the suit. The suit was filed to prevent 504 from providing protection and accommodations for persons with gender dysphoria (psychological distress that results from an incongruence between sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity). These were provisions added under the Biden administration.

Proponents of the lawsuit maintain that it is simply an effort to not expand 504 to include individuals with gender dysphoria, a group not covered by the original regulations. However, in the Demand for Relief, the suit asks to “Declare Section 504, 29 U.S.C. 794, unconstitutional” and “Issue permanent injunctive relief against Defendants enjoining them from enforcing Section 504.”

That means the suit is asking that all of 504, not just the part concerning gender dysphoria, be declared unconstitutional. If the court finds in favor of Paxton and Texas, the constitutional rights of persons with disabilities on the federal level will be gutted and 50 years of struggle will have to be continued.

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Jessica: When I hear Republicans out there talking about their plan for education in America, I don't hear them talking about making sure disabled kids have access to a public education.


Greg: Because we're against it.

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That's how we do out here . My wife and her friends were there.

Lawmakers & Catholic leaders flip out over Satanic "Black Mass" at Kansas Capitol

A Satanic group’s “Black Mass,” scheduled to take place in the Kansas Capitol later this month, has led to all kinds of chaos due to lawmakers and Catholic leaders who want to prevent the group from exercising their First Amendment rights.

The chaos now involves changing the rules for who can hold events in the Capitol, a lawsuit against the Satanists, and a formal resolution denouncing the Mass as “despicable, blasphemous and offensive.”

In this case, the Black Mass is being conducted by the Satanic Grotto, an independent group that’s not affiliated with The Satanic Temple or the Church of Satan. The plan was that, on March 28, members would go to the 1st floor rotunda, which they had reserved, and “dedicate the grounds and our legislature to the glory of Satan.”

We will be performing rites to the Black Mass and indulging in sacrilegious blaspheme. God will fall and Kansas will be embraced by the black flame of Lucifer.



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Arrogant (often fearful, often malicious and even hateful) ignorance reigns supreme in maga world.

Troglodytes with pervasively delusional perceptions thanks to their own issues, cultivated and amplified by decades of faux news, rw radio, and the numerous moron collectives they find on the interwebs.

(Not to paint all of them with an overly broad brush )