GOP insanity containment thread 3: more human than strom thurman

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And let’s not ignore the bigger picture: This is happening at a time when this and other York County school boards are pushing policies that would restrict what books students read, what sports teams they compete on and even which pronouns they use.

All of this is part of an attempt to erase LGBTQ+ people.

Cutting a window into these bathrooms is an intimidation tactic designed to make sure students who use the so-called “gender-identity” facilities — and, let’s be honest, any student who doesn’t fit neatly into the worldview of the school board’s far-right majority — know they’re being watched, controlled and judged.

I mean that’s the intent but they kind of lost their own bigoted plot when every kid is going to feel harassed.

Odds that they’ll designate a full time bathroom watcher to stand and stare through the window to make sure no gaayyyy kids get into the bathroom?

hey look. these are my peoples. love it when my highschool makes news for cool stuff like this…

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I don’t encourage my kids to disrupt school, but I would certainly be ok with them putting something over the window. Even draw a dick on it.

Congrats!

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https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1841907275289788919

Oh look, damn migrants importing fentanyl!

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I’m reversing the story to make it an easier read. Pretty tragic story overall.

Towers Parry was a University of Washington School of Medicine graduate and a licensed family practitioner in Seattle… Dr. Tammy was a devoted follower of the conspiracy theory and political movement QAnon.
Dr. Tammy livestreamed and recorded the riot, decked out in red, white, blue and QAnon symbols. She later posted a video of her claiming to have “stormed the Congress”
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In 2022, the Washington State Medical Commission revoked her medical license after she failed to comply with an order to undergo a mental health evaluation.
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Shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, two people arrived at a home on the corner of Southwest Hudson Street and Lewis Place Southwest to serve a 57-year-old woman paperwork. Documents show the property was in foreclosure and was sold in an auction on Sept. 30.

The homeowner exited her home and presented a shotgun, according to police. Then, a 40-year-old man fired his handgun, shooting the woman in the torso. The man was one of the two people serving her paperwork.

The woman later died at the scene. Police say the two people involved are cooperating in the investigation, and all firearms have been recovered. No arrests have been made.

Boo hoo. Anyway, what’s for lunch?

https://x.com/emilykmay/status/1841993919900287402

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Leopards are really hungry…we’re all trying to find the guy that did this etc etc

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https://x.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1841597968602038305

https://x.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1841652410009493533

https://x.com/Heidi_Cuda/status/1841653329744867668

And here is where we get to the description of the prototype of JD Vance, Peter Thiel’s replicant:

Thompson writes:

The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.

He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity.

Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him.

There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.

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https://x.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1841859224814432762

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You really have to give it to them for their grifting ability. I wish I had 1/100th of their grifting talent. It really knows no bounds.

Obviously it’s just all dumb fuckery.

Previously, one would need to apply for Critical Needs Assistance and it would be disbursed on a case-by-case basis. Here is the 1-pager on CNA from 2020, which was $500 and includes the eligibility at the bottom:

Applicants may be eligible for CNA if they:

  • Complete a FEMA registration;
  • Pass FEMA’s identity verification process;
  • At registration, assert that they have critical needs and request financial assistance for those needs and expenses.
  • Have a pre-disaster primary residence located in an area designated for CNA.

So, people were getting some relief in the form of Critical Needs Assistance but it was too cumbersome.

Then comes 2024 and Biden did a few updates, including this one:

  • Establishing Serious Needs Assistance: FEMA is standardizing immediate financial support for survivors by replacing the Critical Needs Assistance program with a cash relief program called Serious Needs Assistance. Previously only provided based on a disaster-by-disaster evaluation, Serious Needs Assistance will now be available in all disasters receiving Individual Assistance. The payment of $750 for households with serious needs will help cover immediate expenses related to sheltering, evacuation and meeting basic household needs. This payment would be in addition to other eligible assistance that may be provided to survivors based on their unique circumstances.

Serious Needs Assistance increased the amount to $750 and made it much easier to access. The idea is it is a temporary amount of cash that can sustain a household for a short-term. $750 probably doesn’t realistically move the needle for temporary housing when a disaster has displaced so many, but it is better than $500, which is also better than $0.

The other way FEMA disburses money to individuals, from my understanding, takes a much longer time and is tied to bunch of factors which are laid out here:

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Walters is a frequent guest on conservative podcasts, radio shows and TV stations. His agency has a $60,000 per year contract with D.C.-based Vought Strategies to book him for national interviews weekly.

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The person in who became a Nazi and who didn’t was a woman: Hannah Arendt.

A very narrow description for a very limited selection of Nazis. That describes Goebbels sure, but not enough people to fill the party.