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We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

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Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

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Shut up, hissy kitty!

People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

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So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

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Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

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Ali Alexander is widely suspected of selling out his fellow domestic terrorists to the Jan6 committee, so he’s an obvious early target for the 2024 GOP Death Cult circular firing squad. There’s only so many high-dollar grifters a national campaign can successfully support, after all :

… Ali Alexander has become one of the most ubiquitous figures in the MAGA movement. Trump himself reportedly requested that Alexander speak at his rally before the riot, with his appearance only quashed by a last-minute intervention from Trump’s aides. But this week, Alexander stands at the center of a scandal that raises questions about how powerful men in the far-right treat their younger acolytes…

The budding online scandal has also roiled the pro-Trump and white supremacist “America First” movement, just months after it reached new levels of notoriety after its leader, Nick Fuentes, dined with Donald Trump and rapper Kanye West at Mar-a-Lago. Now Fuentes is facing backlash from his own supporters over whether he ignored warnings that Alexander, his friend and ally, was allegedly soliciting nude pictures from young men within Fuentes’s movement.

On Friday night, Alexander—who was questioned by the House Jan. 6 Committee about his role organizing a canceled rally dubbed the “Wild Protest” outside the Capitol, which drew crowds to the building right before the riot began—issued a statement Friday offering a general apology…

Yiannopoulos started releasing video interviews and other evidence meant to prove that Alexander sexually propositioned both adult men in their 20s and at least two teenagers. Yiannopoulos, whose own career as a far-right pundit imploded in 2017 after remarks he had made downplaying the seriousness of pedophilia surfaced, claims he has more damaging videos to release about Alexander and Fuentes.

Yiannopoulos claims he’s releasing the video against Alexander because Alexander dropped Yiannopoulos’ name to entice young men. One screenshot purports to show Alexander dangling the prospect of a meeting with Yiannopoulos to a teenage boy…

Originally from Dallas, Alexander pleaded guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008. But despite his criminal background, Alexander—who was then using his legal name, Ali Akbar—managed to rise in the GOP during the online conservative backlash to the Obama administration. Leveraging his position writing for blogs with names like “Hip Hop Republican,” Alexander received funding from billionaire conservative mega-donor Robert Mercer, organized a national club for bloggers that later faced questions about how Alexander spent the money he raised, and hosted an annual party at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

By 2017, Alexander had become an ardent Trump supporter with a passion for social-media trash talk. He became a protege of MAGA figures like Roger Stone and InfoWars chief Alex Jones, and ran with a group of other young MAGA internet provocateurs, including anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer and blundering smear artist Jacob Wohl…

It’s a tight little circle, after all. (Nasty details at the link, if you want ’em.)

Bad omen for AA — Ratf*cker Roger has been running this con since before most of these jagoffs were born…

Feels like ‘Rooting for Injuries‘ may need to be added to the Categories list here…

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    Yes, this is a root for injuries scenario, assuming the “root for them to be beamed off Earth and all evidence of them ever existing  be immediately purged” option is not in the cards at the moment.

  3. 3.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    Interesting post; thank you AL since there is no way I keep up with (or even keep track of) this disgusting group of people. I am indeed rooting for injuries since everyone involved is a POS. Ick.

  7. 7.

    AlaskaReader

    The bill bans the state’s largely liberal-run cities from setting any policy more stringent than those passed by its conservative-dominated legislature across a wide range of domains.

    If a Republican is talking about rights,

    …they are only referring to their right to take yours away.

  8. 8.

    Tony Jay

    Just awful, awful people. Humanoid sewer sludge with social media accounts.

    And Sammy Davis Junior’s estate should totally sue that gonk for bringing his look into disrepute.

  9. 9.

    lowtechcyclist

    I thought Milo had declared himself ‘ex-gay’ because of course that ups his standing in the RW world. Sounds like he’s moved on to being ex-ex-gay? Not like anyone stays ‘ex-gay’ for all that long, of course.

  11. 11.

    Shalimar

    @lowtechcyclist: Milo claims he has demoted his “husband” to being just a houseguest.  That he is now straight.  No one thinks they are legally married, as far as I can tell, and no one really believes he isn’t still gay.  But it’s Milo.  He’s a flamboyant narcissist who lies about everything. So, whatever.

  12. 12.

    Low Key Swagger

    I absolutely love how the internet names things.  Two recent that made me spit out my coffee:  Ali Alexander:  Scammy Davis Jr.  Moms for Liberty:  Klanned Karenhood.
    Genius.

  13. 13.

    p.a.

    Yow.  Need a theater-style program for the depth of CV of these trashpeeps, and their relationships.  And gloves & precaution gown to touch it.

  23. 23.

    Tony Jay

    @cain:

    It can’t be an accident. The chin, the glasses, the hair, it’s the whole look. Maybe he’s going for a ‘black guy who’ll take shit from his ‘friends’ to stay part of the in-group’ vibe.

    It’s also disturbing how much a smiling MTG looks like a happy and finally at peace with himself and who he really is Mike Pence.

  27. 27.

    eversor

    Why can’t these fuckers stop touching kids?  Why is it always, always, always, kiddy fucking with these people.

    I’m a fairly horny guy and I don’t exchange nudes even with people my age cause, what?  Why would you ask a kid for nudes?

    Did streak in high school though, and once in the Navy, so I’m not blameless here but in my defense I was shit faced drunk and streaking is an honored tradition!

    Is it unfair to just assume all these assholes are child fuckers?  How is it that all the people so worried about child fucking are the ones fucking the children?

    At this point I’m fairly sure somewhere there is a video of one of these idiots cornholling a chicken.

  28. 28.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    The young GOP fascists of the future are not coming from these people. They will come from rural communities, will truly be puritanical, and will not be kind to these clowns. If they weren’t such awful people, I would almost feel sorry for them. I look forward to Ali going to jail for soliciting minors along with what I’m sure are a number of quieter fellow travellors.

  31. 31.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    I haven’t run the numbers, but it appears to me that, statistically, one’s children are safer in the care of a trans person or a drag queen than a Christian church authority or a Republican lawmaker.

    By several orders of magnitude.

  32. 32.

    SFAW

    “Rooting for injuries”? Screw that. I’m rooting for a (very large) round-robin steel-cage death match, with all the participants having unlimited ammo (including grenades and similar).

    And by “very large,” I mean large enough to contain all these groomers, all elected Rethuglicans, their media apologists, the Murdochs, Mercers, et al.

    I also thought the photo of Pedobiec giving the “White Power” hand-sign, while hanging with the not-very-white Scammy Davis Jr. (thanks! Love that!) was a nice touch.

  33. 33.

    Ella in New Mexico

    They’re all self imploding and all we have to do is sit back an watch, maybe get a journalist to ask a few pointed questions to keep things rolling.

    As for me, I’m most eagerly waiting for the drop on MTG’s “crime”. And to see if Alexander gets a nice little visit from the FBI for solicitation of child pornography…

  34. 34.

    CliosFanBoy

    @eversor:

     Why can’t these fuckers stop touching kids? Why is it always, always, always, kiddy fucking with these people.

    I think it’s a power/dominance thing.

  35. 35.

    SFAW

    @eversor: ​
     

    Why can’t these fuckers stop touching kids?

    They’ll say they’re “just doing (scientific) research” into all the terrible things they (falsely) claim the Demon-rats are doing.

  36. 36.

    GibberJack

    “Battling SSA” … What the fuck is wrong with these people. They’re gay AF and they pretend it’s a disease, like battling cancer or alcoholism.

    And it’s always projection with these disgusting fucked up people. I am convinced it’s not self-loathing. It’s cynical deception of their followers for money power and status. It’s WWF without the costumes, in that it’s all kayfabe.

    And ironically and perhaps not coincidentally, there is a large overlap of trumpies and World Wrestling fans. WWE, the whole thing with bare chested men in hotpants glam costumes and exaggerated larger than life personas, is pretty damn drag queen. WWE is drag show for trumpie WWC.

  38. 38.

    No One You Know

    @CliosFanBoy: The ongoing anxiety of needing to talk about it, make it normal.  Which ain’t happening. The Party of Short Eyes is filled with people trying to control other people’s sex lives because they won’t control their own.

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