Falling Off The Edge
Okay, so here’s the deal. The only thing keeping Georgia on the map is because Florida blows. Otherwise, Georgia would just float off into the ocean somewhere and be its own little banana republic.
There’s a Republican primary coming up in Georgia that’s become a freak show. The current governor, Republican Brian Kemp, just allowed constitutional carry. That means if you can pick up a gun, you can carry it around with you. No license needed. No background check. No matter how much you’ve threatened your ex-wife. And, in this primary, Kemp is the moderate.
Keep your eye out for Dr. Kandiss Taylor, who is Sarah Palin with a drawl. I do not know where she got her doctorate but I deeply suspect it required money and postage.
Her campaign slogan —
She’s got a website and is driving all over Georgia preaching her gospel of how awful the government is, calling for a forensic audit of the 2020 election, and has even said that if we had secure elections that gas prices wouldn’t be so high.
She stresses that she is “working class” and “just like you.” She’s a school teacher.
“I want to ensure that Georgia stays red, conservative and we protect our morality and put that over money … and that’s the most important thing we’re doing.”
Now when I said that she was driving all over Georgia preaching “Morality Over Money!”, you probably had a vision of a pick up truck or something, right?
Nope.
She’s got a damn fancy ass bus. I guess she sold her morality to rent that sucker and buy gas for it.
Jesus, Guns, and Babies. Why not children? Why just babies? Hummmm …
“Don’t talk to me about separation of church and state,” she said. “Church and state was written because the state has no business in our church. But we are the church. We are the church, and we run the state.”
She said that Georgia is “sovereign” and “we’re running the state with Jesus Christ first” before adding that other religions don’t get to “silence” Christians.
Honey, she’s Sarah Palin with a drawl.
A quote from her website:
“Life begins at conception which is why I intend to not only criminalize abortion when there’s a heartbeat, but when there is any proof of pregnancy at all.”
How will that work? Mandatory pregnancy tests for all women of child bearing age every Sunday when they attend mandatory church services? Having a missing period in a sentence you post online (only applies to women posters).
At least she is honest about one thing:
https://twitter.com/KandissTaylor/status/1514098614427082755?s=20&t=1w5Bl0vfCXNAvgV1utlnAg
1Twitter had a field day with her a few weeks ago, because on her bus she leaves out the “and.”
JESUS GUNS BABIES
2What caliber does he use?
3There are so many repugnantican politicians vying to be thee craziest human alive. And that appeals to the R voters which says a lot about the state of the union. Expect Georgia to ban contraceptives, too, regardless of which repugnantican wins.
4She sounds like Sarah Palin with a drool and a drawl.
The NSGOP is too crazy for Sarah Palin any more. This woman fits right in. She’s not Sarah Palin.
5“we’re running the state with Jesus Christ first” Says the woman who ignores what jesus says and does not follow his teachings.
6OMFG! Endless possibilities–
Scarah Palin [R-AK47] in Congress, Kandiss Taylor {R-GovGA], MTG [R-GA], Jody Hice [R-GA], etal,
Georgia is almost as FUBARed as Texas.
Taylor’s endorsers so far [out]:
PILLOWMAN! “It is an honor to have Mr. Mike Lindell’s endorsement.”
Lin Effing Wood
Stew Peters
United Patriots Uprising
Thaats all folks, so far.. waiting for the Rufous Ratbastard to endorse her, alongside that corrupt whackjob football player running for US Senator..
7When I was a lad in Georgia (1953-63), you could go armed any ol’ way you liked. I remember in the 8th grade trying to mow enough yards to get a 37 mm antitank gun.
8C’mon Georgia. You don’t have to do this. You were sane enough to elect Raphael Warnock and John Ossoff in the last election. You can elect Stacey Abrams for governor in the next one. Please, get off the crazy train and ignore the RWNJs among you. You don’t have to pander to the stupid.
9I think I read if Stacey Abrams is elected, desantis is going to somehow make a border between his wonderful (shit) state and Georgia. Warring crazy states.
10Would someone please give these science denying Luddites a basic course in the reproductive process? Unless I’m mistaken, conception, per se, is no indicator of “life”. If that fertilized egg doesn’t implant in the uterine wall, there ain’t no baby and there ain’t gonna be no baby.
11If I remember correctly, the last statistic I saw was that somewhere in the neighborhood of 1/2 to 2/3 of fertilized eggs fail to implant for whatever reason. So. Are they going to prosecute 1/2 to 2/3 of Georgia women of childbearing age for… uh, what exactly?
She’s a lot worse than Sarah Palin
12“She also received a Ph.D. from Regent University in 2014” (Ballotpedia). Regent is Pat Robertson’s BS university.
13joel haines: aw c’mon. How could she be worse than Sarah Palin?
Palin is currently running for the one and only congress seat for Alaska. Just last week, April 7, the Anchorage Daily News published “As some question her commitment, Palin says she’s never left Alaska”
https://www.adn.com/politics/2022/04/07/as-some-question-her-commitment-palin-says-shes-never-left-alaska/
Total bullshit.
No mention at all that as soon as Palin had the money she moved to Arizona. 8000 square foot house, 6 bedrooms, 6.5 baths, pool, spa, outdoor basketball court, putting green. She bought it in 2011 for $1,695,000. She sold it in 2019 for $2,275,000.
https://people.com/home/sarah-palin-sells-arizona-home/
And now she claims she has never left Alaska.
When was the last time you spent a million plus for a house then forgot all about it?
14Not to mention that Sarah came back to Alaska fresh off the McCain defeat, wasn’t in the mood to be governor anymore, and quit halfway through her term. I guarantee the other 50 (snicker) candidates for this congressional spot will not let her or any of the rest of Alaska forget that.
15Don’t look now but Tennessee is rapidly closing the idiocy gap….
16Yikes! These lunatics are far crazier than any semi-rational person can possibly imagine.
Here’s RWNJ talk show host Stew Peters [mentioned above endorsing Kandiss Taylor for R-GovGA; and he’s sponsored by PILLOWMAN too!] and a depraved guest with just one of the latest MAGAot/QAnon batshit conspiracy theories:
“Conspiracy theorists Stew Peters & Bryan Ardis allege that COVID-19 is actually a synthesized form of snake venom that is being spread via drinking water and vaccines as part of a plot by the Catholic Church to turn everyone into “a hybrid of Satan.” ”
https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1513906752038883330
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/4/13/2091810/-MAGA-doctor-claims-COVID-vaccines-are-part-of-Catholic-plot-to-turn-you-into-a-hybrid-of-Satan
Oooookk-
17If just 20% of this lunacy is picked up by the MAGAots/Teabaggers we’re in deep doo doo..
How TF can millions of ‘Murikans lap this shit up and beg for more?
Any nation with this many raving lunatics running around loose cannot last very effing much longer.
Sandridge- “How TF can millions of ‘Murikans lap this shit up and beg for more?” They’re mindless members of a giant cult. That’s how.
18I’m not certain what Georgia is going for: Competition seems pretty stiff among the Southeast states. This year, there appears to be many aspiring to become a variation on 19th Century politician James Louis Petigru’s infamous assessment that South Carolina was “too small to be a republic and too big to be an insane asylum.”
19John in Denver, that is a perfect description of Alabama!!!!
20And ideeho, too.
21Steve from Beaverton @18, Still, there are so damned many of them who have been cranium-washed [as you imply, their brains are inoperative or wholly missing].
If only our damned Democratic leadership could be persuasive wizards at a fraction of the Rethugs effectiveness, we’d wrap this shit up forever.
22Hell, it’s almost time for Hercule Poirot and Death in Paradise on PBS… anybody like that Brit mystery show DiP?
23Just started down here and it’s a-ok. Not Sherlock or Endeavour class, but very good, and subtly funny [even made the theme my ringtone on a phone].
When it comes to guns the rePUKEians are both ST00PID! & smart.
24ST00PID…To control violence, more people should carry guns for protection…
smart…No guns allowed where rePUKEian politicians gather!!!
You guys have it wrong,
The republican’t’s Kentucky keeps the rest of the ‘Deep South’ attached to the U.S. Kentucky really sucks.
25“Becoming” stoopid? Wait! Maybe I over looked something in the past 20 years! And now I was not doing a Rip Van Winkle!
26Sandridge @18 – I enjoyed the English mysteries on PBS so much my husband bought me Britbox for Christmas. Have watched all Death in Paradise episodes – there are several seasons. Enjoyed the setting and the characters are great. EVERYTHING is very different so that added to my enjoyment.
Just imagine if someone wrote an English type mystery with Trump-loving, MAGAT Gov. AButt, crazy Dan Patrick wanting all 70+ people to die with Covid and the top LEO who is an indicted criminal. No one would believe it – just too crazy.
27Almost as crazy as a woman who evidently hates politics so much she left the governship after serving only half a term and moved to Arizona, but using Republican-type “facts” never left Alaska.
Georgia Gamble @27, I’ve been a “Mystery” and “Masterpiece” addict since they began [1980, 1971]. I see Britbox advertised, guess it’s a sat/cable thing [strictly OTAtv here].
DiP just began airing here from the first episode recently, although the series began in 2011; it’s certainly different than the usual Brit mystery [it’s a French English production]. I flipped over the Caribbean island setting [been to some]. I’ve already researched a bunch of stuff [data, sat&vis images, etc.] on the actual filming locations, with which I’m going to update the Wiki. One of the principal ones is the district/commune of Deshaies, Basse-Terre Island, Guadalupe. The police office is actually the rectory of a church, l’Église Saint Pierre et Saint Paul sur Rue de l’Église, off the main drag, Rue de la Liberté.
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Église_Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul_de_Deshaies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_Paradise_(TV_series)
Deshaies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshaies
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28Yeah, writing anything to do with Rethugs is far far beyond any known fictional genres; it’s actually the worst macabre horror terror tale you can’t even imagine.
Another curious Brit-Merican difference is in TV programs: Brit series do not equal American seasons.
29A Brit series can be produced with more than one series per year or skip years.
While American seasons are almost always one season per year [usually overwinter, so overlapping two years].
Îles Guadeloupe, not Guadalupe.
30Damned autospeller…got it’s Spanish and French mixed up.
Thanks Sandridge for all the info. Spoiler alert – for anyone interested in Death in Paradise: in case you love the setting but can’t stand the British detective sent to the island, there will be more likeable guys sent there… Just hang in there and enjoy.
31So when is someone going to write something about the woman who was arrested and jailed for 2 days for a self induced abortion before being released because there is no such criminal offence in Texas, yet. And will young Bubba please sue the pants off everyone involved in that travesty of justice?
32To follow slipstream’s comment, you might like to read a few other Alaska opinions on the Grifter that keeps on Grifting.
https://www.ktoo.org/2022/04/10/as-some-question-her-commitment-palin-says-shes-never-left-alaska/
33Georgia Gamble @31, Awwww,
“can’t stand the British detective sent to the island”…
I think that DI Poole is cool [the first of several main DIs in series]. His character is a total sendup of almost every British detective character ever, well done satire. Even Camille falls for him.
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Katherine @32, [y’all aren’t going to like reading this]
This woman’s abortion arrest case is a –prime example– of what all you non-South Texans [and Houstonians are not in STx], and countrywide –Liberals–, just keep getting WRONG, over and over again :
That the Hispanic Texans are solidly Democratic!
WRONG! Abbutt & Co has snookered y’all to the max.
This nearly universal Democratic assumption is very dangerous bullshit [that I have been ranting about for years, jfc].
This incident that has so many of you worked up [sites like DKos went apeshit] took place in effing Rio Grande City, Starr County, TX
[I, a fmr Valleyite, am probably the –only one here– who’s spent time there, both working and fishing].
Starr [pop~70K] and RGC [pop ~14K] are the –most Hispanic– [~98%] and third poorest [per cap inc ~$9K] places in the USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_City,_Texas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starr_County,_Texas
***Yet the Republicans have now flipped these formerly rock-solid Democratic places into what you just got a glimpse of!!!
And Starr is just one of many Texas counties sliding into this Rethuglikan abyss.
WHY? Wake TF up Dems.
The damned Democratic ‘leadership’ had better figure this out real fast!
“Starr County had the highest percentage of Hispanic residents of any county in the United States,[10] and the lowest percentage of non-Hispanic white residents.[11]…About 47.40% of families and 50.90% of the population were below the poverty line…
Starr has the longest streak of voting for Democrats in the entire country….This was a major shift from Hillary Clinton’s 60-point margin of victory four years earlier, and represented the strongest pro-Trump swing of any county in the nation.[18][19]…”
In a place with 98%+ Hispanics….
34slipstream @3, “What caliber does he use?”
35When I saw that I wanted to jump in with ‘.17cal’, the smallest practical caliber available. After all, who would waste a .45 or .44mag on a tot? [this is muy dark humor folks].