I’ll bet you didn’t know who Gerald L.K. Smith was before this recent Rachel Maddow video (well, maybe you did)...apparently, he’s the one behind the whole “Christian nationalist” stuff in this country, and you can draw a line (including the anti-Semitism) right from Smith to Repug PA gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano and Marjorie Taylor Greene...apparently, this clip got Greene’s panties all in a knot – hey, if the wingnut shoe fits, wear it (and to support Josh Shapiro running against Mastriano, click here)...
...and sticking with the Keystone State (which is a commonwealth, actually, to split hairs), John and Wosny Lambre of The Damage Report tell us about wingnut U.S. House Rep Glenn Thompson, who voted against a same sex marriage bill and then attended his gay son’s wedding (double standard much? And Thompson, for the record, is also on this list)...
...and as long as we’re dealing with LGBTQ matters, Sam, Emma and company at The Majority Report tell us about the idiotic right winger getting thrown out of Petsmart for complaining about a pride flag...GREAT point at the end by Sam about going to corporations and telling shareholders you don’t agree with the damn flag instead of picking on store employees likely working for a hell of a lot less (more here)...
...and it also appears that the NY GOP is working extra hard to try and spin this admittedly idiotic incident with Lee Zeldin into some kind of attack made possible by Democrats somehow, with a cat-faced fob somehow turning into brass knuckles with daggers, or some such nonsense (oh, but the Monroe County DA could have charged this guy Jakubonis, but she’s working for Zeldin’s campaign...how con-vee-nient...Jayar and Jessica Burbank tell us more)...
...and Farron Cousins tells us that GOP pollster Frank Luntz says Trump could ruin everything for the ’22 midterms for his party – we can only hope, and let’s all work to make that a reality of course (I think Cousins is right to consider the impact of COVID, as well as the fact that Luntz is definitely NOT an impartial observer here, but we should ALSO consider the impact of the SCOTUS gutting Roe, and yeah, that will have an impact too, which probably has yet to be decided)...
...and closer to home, this local news report tells us that the Central Bucks School District basically instituted a book ban; they can call it whatever they want, but that’s what it is – oh, so now I guess Dr. Abe Lucabaugh, superintendent of the district, is now a critic of English literature also??...
...which makes me recall this clip (from this great film)...
...and speaking of books, I guess we’d better keep the one in this video away from Lucabaugh too :-).
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