Mastriano and Cox both support Trump’s Big Lie and had involvement in the January 6 Insurrection. Republicans elected them to run for Governor. The RGA apparently supports them no matter what because they are Republicans? Really? It says to me that companies who support the RGA certainly have no allegiance to respect for truth or the rule of law.
So what drives these companies? It’s the soulless quest for money and influence with no moral backbone. And this also points to how much the Supreme Court needs to be reformed because they opened the floodgates to corporate influence at the expense of the citizen and the democratic structures through their ruling on Citizens United.
It's absolutely hateful and so very wrong. These MF's actually think they're going to some imagined heaven where they will reign supreme? Oh to be a fly on the wall when the truth is revealed to these soulless monsters.
I sat in church with these soulless beings. As a child I wondered why they thought that they have to get everyone to be like them. I remember sitting there in stunned silence (late 70’s) when a Sunday sermon turned into talking about running for school board and any locally electable office.
Of course the "mainstream" Republicans are getting behind Mastriano. They need him in Harrisburg to deliver PA's electoral votes to whoever they run in 2024 whether Trump or some other extremist. They don't care in the slightest about all of the damage he would do to the state of Pennsylvania during what would surely be a one term reign of error.
What troubles me most is that these mentally deluded nuts are allowed to campaign as if they are perfectly normal citizens. They are not. We’ve been so fearful of offending the religious and offending the right wing even if they bring in deadly rhetoric and threaten specific groups of people. I’m getting more disgusted by the lack of proper response than I am with the crimes! Do we stand against this or NOT!?
I’m sick to death of politicians announcing something must be done. They need to get on the podium and say, we HAVE implemented this law, the president has made an executive order for ______!
These are not issues of free speech. It is terrorism! Treat it for what it is!
What do the nuttiest people on earth have in common? Religion. Abrahamic ones. Time for this country to act boldly to protect it’s citizens and stop feeding money to houses of superstition. The money not collected due to property tax exemptions can help all Americans.
I’m lumping all religion, especially Abrahamic faiths of having a lot of violence and bizarre business in their books. No gods of which have ever been remotely provable. We need to address that no funding or privilege should ever go to it.
You are lumping too many things together which are very off-topic. You are talking about "Organized Religion" and should be clearer about that, imo. It's the "Christian" zealots that are the problem here, as zealots tend to be about anything.
Also the commonality of these delusional MAGAs is their fundamentalist religious views. Clearly there are many good religious people. But we should never be supporting ANY religion from the public.
If Mastriano is elected, Pennsylvania will veer sharply to the right and will become no different than Alabama or any other red state. You will see a complete abortion ban and the same type of pugnacious governing that we see out of Ron DeSantis in Florida.
If the good people in Pennsylvania cannot see through this man’s pack of lies and if they should happen to elect him as governor and he has the power to appoint an attorney general then Pennsylvania will be lost as far as democracy goes.
There has to be a way to make sure that the voters know what kind of an extremist he is.
John Fetterman (D) in PA for Senate is running a good brass knuckles sort of campaign, calling out Oz for his hypocrisy, twisting the knife in. Democrats running for office everywhere need to do this. This is not the time for niceties.
I'm sure he's having tons of affairs and probably paying for abortions. Can you please dig up the dirt that's surely there? I'm just praying that something comes out soon that derails his campaign. I'm terrified of him - he's a psychopath.
This is one of the most disturbing articles I've read recently- I had not heard of Gab, and how in the world do Christians think they're following their "religion" by assuming these kind of beliefs and actions - that God's on board for those kind of beliefs and actions. And I agree with so many of the other comments here - that politics has become ALL about how many vote you can buy - if you are a company, a wealthy individual, a political pac... it's ALL about advancing one's own self, one's own financial succes. Sometimes I feel like our country is crumbling beneath all this crap. It's terribly depressing. Thank you Judd - we need to keep this stuff on our radar, though I don't know what we DO about it. Where has the "hope" side of political reporting gone.
Jan, I hope I didn't just sound like a "hand wringer". I'm pushing back in every way I can, but as an individual it's challenging, and I do feel like a lot of broadcast "journalism" (entertainment focused!) is more trying to draw viewers than share information and assume there ARE answers and we must find them. I can't believe (and yes, I'm a life-long Democrat) how tough the press has been on President Biden when he took over a world that Trump had just made into a shit pile. The WHOLE world is suffering right now, from war, from hunger, from Covid, from economic downfalls... but it's international, and I believe Biden is doing everything he can to help those he can help. I would like to escort Manchin out of the senate through the closest exit door. FINALLY it looks like something or someone has gotten to him and he's maybe fearful of losing popularity or ?? But this latest working out of some sproblem-solving (hopefully) steps is encouraging. Thanks for listening.
Now they're saying the quiet part out loud. RGA is a collection of soulless, evil, power hungry individuals who do not care about governing or what the majority of the country wants. So what if he's a racist and a bigot? He's a Republican, so we're going to do EVERYTHING possible to elect him. Oh, he murdered and raped babies?!?! So what, still a Republican, let's vote him in!
And here I sit, disgusted that the likes of Google and Visa use their profits to enable dangerous monsters like Mastriano, typing on my Android phone, having used both Google Pay and my Visa card at least once today, and Google search several times. Maybe I should go and live in a cave.
Mastriano is getting a LOT of press lately - all free from MSM, speaking to his ultra-MAGA christo-nationalism schtick. And worse, the Dems are paying for ads debunking his lies and distortions. I'm not sure which is worse, the free ride he gets from the media or Dems pouring money into ads so that he is front and center in voters' minds. No wonder he's only a few points behind Shapiro, who's the best bet for Pennsylvania's next governor. If Shapiro loses, it will be on the Dems for keeping this MAGAt front and center, instead of letting his candidacy implode on itself!
Mastriano and Cox both support Trump’s Big Lie and had involvement in the January 6 Insurrection. Republicans elected them to run for Governor. The RGA apparently supports them no matter what because they are Republicans? Really? It says to me that companies who support the RGA certainly have no allegiance to respect for truth or the rule of law.
So what drives these companies? It’s the soulless quest for money and influence with no moral backbone. And this also points to how much the Supreme Court needs to be reformed because they opened the floodgates to corporate influence at the expense of the citizen and the democratic structures through their ruling on Citizens United.
It's absolutely hateful and so very wrong. These MF's actually think they're going to some imagined heaven where they will reign supreme? Oh to be a fly on the wall when the truth is revealed to these soulless monsters.
I sat in church with these soulless beings. As a child I wondered why they thought that they have to get everyone to be like them. I remember sitting there in stunned silence (late 70’s) when a Sunday sermon turned into talking about running for school board and any locally electable office.
Oh yeah! I have had similar experiences in my life. I've been exposed to most of the major religions here in the US and I say FIE!
Separation of church and state.
All of this Republican holier than thou
political rhetoric and the money that's
invested in many of their candidates,
especially with this November and 2024
in their gun sight, to say nothing about
their all seeing knowledge of the mind
of God, is reprehensible. Consider that
so many of them have been revealed
as thieves, frauds and sexual predators.
Definitely white supremists.
Super PACs, PACs, corporate backing
should be taken off the board entirely.
Campaign finance must be reformed.
But the bottom line is our votes. Who
we vote for, even in gerrymandered
districts. VOTE THEM OUT.
Of course the "mainstream" Republicans are getting behind Mastriano. They need him in Harrisburg to deliver PA's electoral votes to whoever they run in 2024 whether Trump or some other extremist. They don't care in the slightest about all of the damage he would do to the state of Pennsylvania during what would surely be a one term reign of error.
Look at what Bruce Rauner did to the state of Illinois with his "turn around agenda." We're still in recovery mode from the antics of that a-hole!
What troubles me most is that these mentally deluded nuts are allowed to campaign as if they are perfectly normal citizens. They are not. We’ve been so fearful of offending the religious and offending the right wing even if they bring in deadly rhetoric and threaten specific groups of people. I’m getting more disgusted by the lack of proper response than I am with the crimes! Do we stand against this or NOT!?
I’m sick to death of politicians announcing something must be done. They need to get on the podium and say, we HAVE implemented this law, the president has made an executive order for ______!
These are not issues of free speech. It is terrorism! Treat it for what it is!
What do the nuttiest people on earth have in common? Religion. Abrahamic ones. Time for this country to act boldly to protect it’s citizens and stop feeding money to houses of superstition. The money not collected due to property tax exemptions can help all Americans.
Sooooo...you are lumping Jews together with these psychopaths?
I’m lumping all religion, especially Abrahamic faiths of having a lot of violence and bizarre business in their books. No gods of which have ever been remotely provable. We need to address that no funding or privilege should ever go to it.
You are lumping too many things together which are very off-topic. You are talking about "Organized Religion" and should be clearer about that, imo. It's the "Christian" zealots that are the problem here, as zealots tend to be about anything.
Also the commonality of these delusional MAGAs is their fundamentalist religious views. Clearly there are many good religious people. But we should never be supporting ANY religion from the public.
If Mastriano is elected, Pennsylvania will veer sharply to the right and will become no different than Alabama or any other red state. You will see a complete abortion ban and the same type of pugnacious governing that we see out of Ron DeSantis in Florida.
If the good people in Pennsylvania cannot see through this man’s pack of lies and if they should happen to elect him as governor and he has the power to appoint an attorney general then Pennsylvania will be lost as far as democracy goes.
There has to be a way to make sure that the voters know what kind of an extremist he is.
John Fetterman (D) in PA for Senate is running a good brass knuckles sort of campaign, calling out Oz for his hypocrisy, twisting the knife in. Democrats running for office everywhere need to do this. This is not the time for niceties.
I'm sure he's having tons of affairs and probably paying for abortions. Can you please dig up the dirt that's surely there? I'm just praying that something comes out soon that derails his campaign. I'm terrified of him - he's a psychopath.
Republican #1: You want *this* guy to be our candidate? He's a literal axe murderer!
Republican #2: He's a Republican, though.
Republican #1: Well, you have a point.
True and really not so funny when you think upon it for a while.
This is one of the most disturbing articles I've read recently- I had not heard of Gab, and how in the world do Christians think they're following their "religion" by assuming these kind of beliefs and actions - that God's on board for those kind of beliefs and actions. And I agree with so many of the other comments here - that politics has become ALL about how many vote you can buy - if you are a company, a wealthy individual, a political pac... it's ALL about advancing one's own self, one's own financial succes. Sometimes I feel like our country is crumbling beneath all this crap. It's terribly depressing. Thank you Judd - we need to keep this stuff on our radar, though I don't know what we DO about it. Where has the "hope" side of political reporting gone.
You fight back. Like the Ukrainians. Wringing your hands does nothing. Take some lessons from Ukraine or, closer to home, Fetterman
Jan, I hope I didn't just sound like a "hand wringer". I'm pushing back in every way I can, but as an individual it's challenging, and I do feel like a lot of broadcast "journalism" (entertainment focused!) is more trying to draw viewers than share information and assume there ARE answers and we must find them. I can't believe (and yes, I'm a life-long Democrat) how tough the press has been on President Biden when he took over a world that Trump had just made into a shit pile. The WHOLE world is suffering right now, from war, from hunger, from Covid, from economic downfalls... but it's international, and I believe Biden is doing everything he can to help those he can help. I would like to escort Manchin out of the senate through the closest exit door. FINALLY it looks like something or someone has gotten to him and he's maybe fearful of losing popularity or ?? But this latest working out of some sproblem-solving (hopefully) steps is encouraging. Thanks for listening.
Now they're saying the quiet part out loud. RGA is a collection of soulless, evil, power hungry individuals who do not care about governing or what the majority of the country wants. So what if he's a racist and a bigot? He's a Republican, so we're going to do EVERYTHING possible to elect him. Oh, he murdered and raped babies?!?! So what, still a Republican, let's vote him in!
And here I sit, disgusted that the likes of Google and Visa use their profits to enable dangerous monsters like Mastriano, typing on my Android phone, having used both Google Pay and my Visa card at least once today, and Google search several times. Maybe I should go and live in a cave.
Mastriano is getting a LOT of press lately - all free from MSM, speaking to his ultra-MAGA christo-nationalism schtick. And worse, the Dems are paying for ads debunking his lies and distortions. I'm not sure which is worse, the free ride he gets from the media or Dems pouring money into ads so that he is front and center in voters' minds. No wonder he's only a few points behind Shapiro, who's the best bet for Pennsylvania's next governor. If Shapiro loses, it will be on the Dems for keeping this MAGAt front and center, instead of letting his candidacy implode on itself!
If Shapiro loses it will be on the Dems, the moderate Independents, and the moderate Republicans for not getting out and voting for him.