The Absurd GOP

[Jackalope]

It's never always the ones you expect.

[Thumpalumpacus]

It's never always the ones you expect.

Whenever I hear a Congresscritter yelping about child molesters, I scratch my chin a little. Same with the homophobe legislators.

In WWII, some navies would have as doctrine that in a night action, one would illuminate an enemy ship by searchlight. It too a little while for these Einsteins to figure out that your searchlight revealed you as well.

It appears that politicians learn slower than admirals, which is not saying one hell of a lot.

[Angrboda]

Just hours before Donald Trump announced he was firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Vice President JD Vance was celebrating some cherry-picked numbers from the latest jobs report.

In a post on X Friday, Vance shared a graph based on the most recent BLS data from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, claiming that in the last four months, native-born workers had gained a whopping 1.8 million jobs while foreign-born workers had lost 1.5 million jobs. The number of foreign-born workers included both documented and undocumented workers.

“I was told 6 months ago that Americans losing jobs and the foreign-born gaining jobs was an irreversible demographic fact,” Vance wrote. “Turns out you just needed a new president and a new immigration policy.”

As per usual, Vance was a little behind the curve.

Within hours, Trump had directed his administration to fire BLS Commissioner Dr. Erika McEntarfer, a Biden-appointee. “Important numbers like this must be fair and accurate, they can’t be manipulated for political purposes,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social, torching the very numbers Vance had been toasting him over.

https://newrepublic.com/post/198737/jd-v...statistics

[The Valkyrie]

Wow, they are deplorable.

MAGA Champion Who Said Trump Would Fight Child Predators Is Arrested on Charges of Being a Child Predator

A fervent Trump supporter who said that he was casting his 2024 vote to fight child trafficking is now being charged with 10 counts of possessing child pornography.

Scott Soucek of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was arrested on July 24 and accused of accessing hundreds of child pornography images through a file-sharing system.

Soucek isn’t just a Trump booster himself: he’s also the husband of a leading Republican Party operative in the state.

His wife, Stephanie Soucek, is the chairwoman of the Door County Republican Party. Last year, she represented Wisconsin as a delegate at the Republican National Convention.

In a Facebook post last October, Scott Soucek listed two dozen reasons why he planned to vote for Trump.

“I’m voting to fight against human/child trafficking,” Soucek wrote as one of the reasons.

He added later in the post that he was not just voting for himself but also “for my children and my grandchildren.”

In Oct. 2024, Stephanie Soucek appeared on Steve Bannon’s War Room and was interviewed by future FBI director Kash Patel about her efforts to turn out Republican voters in Wisconsin.

Patel told Soucek in that interview that “the crowds from Team Trump’s bus tour in Wisconsin have been phenomenal, and I think that’s due to the work of you and your team out there.”

Stephanie Soucek paid her husband’s bond, which was $10,000, on July 25. Scott Soucek will next appear in court on Aug. 29.

Before his Facebook account was deleted, he had posted pro-Trump memes as well as one meme accusing Joe Biden of groping children.

Stephanie Soucek posted a meme to her X account (also deleted) in July 2024, suggesting that Democrats thought they were “above the law” and were keeping secrets for Ghislaine Maxwell’s clients.

A lawyer for Scott Soucek, Brett Reetz, told the Daily Beast that, “She’s an honest, hardworking Christian.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-champ...-predator/

Yeah, already trolled Steph over this one...

[Angrboda]

Beccs, is this true?

[Angrboda]