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2021: A Fork in the Road for the GOP

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Swalwell: 'Epstein bomb' about to drop, 100 GOP members to 'jail break' from Trump

(KRON) — A Bay Area congressman claims that a bombshell revelation related to the Epstein files is on the verge of being made public and could trigger a collapse in support for President Dona…
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It's his real account but it doesn't make his claim believable. If he'd said "100 gop members privately complain and totally swear they'd like to break from him but won't do it" then sure.
 
I can buy a hundred Republicans jumping ship if the Epstein files get released. The coverup has been blatant and has only increased in its awfulness.

The horrorshow part is that, if it finally becomes revealed that, yeah, Trump really did do these crimes with his best friend while being publicly sleazy about teenaged girls, over 100 Republicans would stay aboard and continue to vocally support these criminals and their crimes.
 
Gary said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1978149301365637316

Can't wait for some of these guys to lose they're jobs, only to make a bunch of cash by hanging out with literal Nazis. More here
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How dare you suggest these patriots be censored. They're only talking about storage of natural gas in chambers and *grapes*, not rape! Sheesh, you liberals make a big deal out of everything.

(we're doomed)
 
Gary said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1978149301365637316

Can't wait for some of these guys to lose they're jobs, only to make a bunch of cash by hanging out with literal Nazis. More here
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Already happening per the article.

- Bobby Walker had been in line to manage Republican Peter Oberacker’s campaign for Congress in upstate New York, but a spokesperson for the campaign said Walker won’t be brought on in light of the comments in the chat.
- POLITICO reached out to Danedri Herbert, a spokesperson for the attorney general who also serves as the Kansas GOP chair, and shared with her excerpts of the chat involving William Hendrix. In response, Herbert said that “we are aware of the issues raised in your article” and that Hendrix is “no longer employed” in Kobach’s office.
- In another, he (Bobby Walker) considered the totality of the thousands of messages he and his peers had written, and what would happen if the public saw them come to light.

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr,” he wrote.
 
The absolute panic that is going on right now has to be amazing.

In a total non-sequitur, gonna check my hard drives to see if I still have those AIM chat archives...*hefts sledgehammer*
 
Time for DOGE to go on another great big loser hiring spree.
 
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Congressman Blames ‘Foul Play or Vandalism’ For ‘Deeply Inappropriate’ Swastika Flag Spotted in Background of Office

Rep. Dave Taylor (R-OH) blamed "foul play or vandalism" on Wednesday after a U.S. flag adorned with a swastika was spotted in the background of his office.
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Turns out some evil dem snuck into the Republican staffer's beautiful office and placed that disgusting thing front and center on a tackboard in front of a Zoom camera because these people are so evil and violent and socialist communist etceterist that they knew exactly where the cam would be. Capitol police, ICE, DOJ, and the FBI (the good ones) are looking into whether the Demoncat also placed similar things in the staffer's Man cave, garage door, the back of his truck, etc.
 
At least they got the strong, believe me they're strong, Uvalde police force on the case
 
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‘George Santos With a Gun’: The Untold Story of Cory Mills, A Mercenary In Congress

The Florida Republican has tried to leverage his legislative role to the benefit of his arms business. With that business now in foreclosure proceedings, Mills has little to show for it.
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some things in the article:
  • PACEM’s and Mills’s ongoing foreign entanglements have gone unreported—including weapons exports—while Mills sits on House Armed Services and House Foreign Affairs and chairs a subcommittee that exercises direct oversight of his own industry.
  • PACEM appears to have been illegally exporting weapons as Mills serves in Congress.
  • Mills has personally guaranteed tens of millions in PACEM debt to a foreign lender, without disclosing it to Congress, as required by law. PACEM’s foreign corporate loans appear tied to $2 million Mills “personally” gave his congressional campaign.
  • PACEM hasn’t repaid its debts—the company owes $66 million, and it recently shut down operations and stopped paying workers amid a foreclosure claim. At the same time, Mills has been spending lavishly on himself and romantic interests.
  • Mills appears to have repeatedly failed to disclose information to Congress required by law—including holding companies, foreign entities, and a nonprofit.
  • Mills’s fully-owned company has been engaged in multiple federal lawsuits while he has held office, incurring an $8 million breach of contract consent judgment this summer for Ukraine weapons shipments.
  • Mills, who is married but now divorcing, hired sex workers during a covert Afghanistan mission and has juggled several girlfriends at once while in Congress, including alleged relationships with other members. Multiple ex-girlfriends and other people who have been close to Mills claim he is an emotionally abusive “psychopath” who has frightened them.
  • Mills has allegedly tried to fistfight other Republican members of Congress, and lied about his party stature to bully other GOP candidates out of primaries that an alleged romantic interest was running in.
  • Mills has lied about his religious history, denying his conversion to Islam in 2014 when he married his current wife.
  • PACEM works with secretive arms brokers, including in offshore mercenary and laundering hubs, and its chief legal officer registered as a foreign agent for a warlord proxy government while Mills served in Congress.
  • PACEM has extensive ties to private military company Blackwater and its founder Erik Prince, partnering on Ukraine exports with Prince and a former Ukrainian lawmaker who once served as a Putin-Trump backchannel.
  • Mills has taken frequent trips to the Middle East in Congress, including at least three visits this year, but he has only filed one gift travel report with ethics officials. The most recent trip was a solo visit to Syria in September, but there is still no disclosure from Mills revealing the itinerary or funding.
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I feel like I've heard this guy's name a few times but not much. It makes you wonder how many others are still under the radar doing stuff like this.
 
An interesting article from Politico related to Montana and the effect of the DOGE cuts, etc. I don't know how much of a short-term impact this'll be re: elections/voting but I don't think they'll forget what happened either if future candidates try to run on their ties to Trump/get called out on their relationships to him whilst simultaneously continuing to screw around with public lands/their livelihoods.


"Trump won Montana by nearly 20 points in the 2024 election. Voters also ousted three-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester, a third-generation farmer from rural eastern Montana and the last legislator in the Senate who maintained a full-time job outside his political career, in favor of novice MAGA Republican Tim Sheehy. That race shattered spending records as Republicans went all in to flip the seat to win the Senate. For the first time in nearly a century, Montana — a famously purple state — went all red.

But here, support for public lands is not a partisan issue. A 2024 poll of Montanans showed 95 percent of respondents had visited public lands in the last year, nearly half of them at least 10 times. The same poll showed 98 percent of Democrats, 84 percent of independents and 71 percent of Republicans said conservation issues are important to their voting decisions.

From January to May, the Blackfoot Challenge saw $4.6 million in already appropriated multi-year funds from federal public land agencies — including USFS, BLM, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service — frozen. Montana’s congressional delegation does seem to be listening to voters somewhat; the Blackfoot Challenge has seen much of its funding unfrozen after calls, letters and congressional visits from landowners and other advocates.

But in other ways, Republicans’ attacks on public lands seem to only be ramping up. In his 2026 budget, Trump proposed cutting a program called WaterSMART, which is administered through the Bureau of Reclamation and has historically provided millions for rural communities in Montana to address water security in a region where it is often scarce. And the U.S. House recently voted to throw out three huge public lands management plans, including one in eastern Montana.

When the cuts came down, they hit him (a forester in Western Montana) hard. “Fifty percent of my income comes from federal dollars,” he said, some administered by groups like the Blackfoot Challenge, and some direct from public lands agencies that work with private contractors. He was out of work for a month in the spring due to the cuts. And it wasn’t just him losing out on income; he couldn’t pay his employees, either.

In March, Trump signed an executive order to increase logging on public lands. But DOGE cut many of the agency employees needed to administer the timber sales for logging, and for thinning and fire mitigation. If there’s no one to administer the sales, then private forestry contractors like the forester I spoke to can’t execute those projects. In addition, the U.S. no longer has the infrastructure to process the increased timber mandated by the executive order, and the government doesn’t appear to be investing in resurrecting it.

Most voters seem to be waiting to see how this administration’s cuts and policies, and the response to them from Montana’s congressional delegation, play out on the ground after court stays; essentially, they’re waiting to see what will stick. Daines is up for re-election in 2026.

In 2018, midway through Trump’s first administration, which slashed national monuments and opened increased amounts of public land to resource extraction, hunters and anglers in Idaho and Wyoming voted down Republican gubernatorial candidates who attacked public lands in the Trump vein. Something similar could easily happen here. Montana is home to more hunters than Idaho or Wyoming..."
 
I think that, like "The Farmers," Montana will continue to vote for Republicans.
 
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