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"Since the last time I was here, Mr. [Herschel] Walker has been talking about issues that are of great importance to the people of Georgia. Like whether it’s better to be a vampire or a werewolf. This is a debate that I must confess I once had myself. When I was seven. Then I grew up. In case you’re wondering, by the way, Mr. Walker decided he wanted to be a werewolf -- which is great! As far as I’m concerned he can be anything he wants to be, except for a United States Senator. This would be funny if he weren’t running for Senate.”
-- Former President Barack Obama, on Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, while campaigning on behalf of Rev. Raphael Warnock for Georgia’s U.S. Senate runoff election.
President Obama might be showing up frequently in Georgia as a surrogate for Reverend Warnock just because he’s having so much fun eviscerating Herschel Walker.
#Barack Obama#President Obama#Politics#Georgia Senate Runoff#Georgia Senate Election#U.S. Senate#Congress#Raphael Warnock#Herschel Walker#Rev. Warnock#Senator Warnock#Georgia#Georgia Politics#Georgia Election#Georgia Runoff
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Still….. nearly half the people in Georgia voted for a man not qualified to be a dog catcher over a somber, learned man of the cloth.
It’s an embarrassment.
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#today was a pretty amazing day in us politics#in addition to sen rev raphael warnock getting re-elected on tues#plus things continue to unravel for defeated twice impeached former us president#all around good news which hasn’t been the norm lately#us politics
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HELL YEAH LET'S GOOOOOO
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It’s not the best letter ever, but 25 senators signed off on a ceasefire letter to Biden on 2/14
It’s not the best, but it is so much more than we have been getting. Calling is WORKING. Protesting is WORKING. DO NOT GIVE UP HOPE!
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Georgia-don't fuck this up and have a complete 🤡 representing you in the US Senate. VoteBlue2022 and vote for Rev. Warnock
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Please read on for a personal message from Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock: Friend – thank you. I’m grateful to have grassroots folks like you standing alongside me in our critical fights for justice. Our midterm elections are taking place this November, and I need your help.
With Democrats’ razor-thin majority in the Senate, Republicans have to flip just one seat to retake control – and experts say that I’m the most vulnerable Democratic senator up for reelection. Mitch McConnell and his GOP allies are flooding Georgia with millions to defeat me, and GOP super PACs are smearing me with attack ads. We need to fight back now – but I don't take a dime from corporate PACs, so I'm fully relying on your grassroots support to power this campaign to victory.
I won't sugarcoat this, friend: We just fell short of our critical mid-month goal – and the timing couldn’t be worse.
FiveThirtyEight says our race could decide Senate control – so Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the entire GOP establishment are coming after me as their TOP target for defeat.
Trump is holding major rallies and megadonor fundraisers with my opponent, Herschel Walker (R), and Republicans have flooded his campaign with more than $20 million to defeat me. Now, polling shows me 2 points down.
I'm in this fight to restore reproductive freedoms, defend voting rights, and more. But with national Republicans pulling out all the stops to flip my seat, the only way we can pull ahead and win is with an immediate surge of grassroots support.
Every dollar has the power to decide this race, friend – so I’m counting on you to give as much as you can spare to help us close this budget gap.
Do not forget, if you have the time and money donate, if you don’t have the time or money spread the word.
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Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker is still facing questions about domestic violence as the election nears.
One of the first stories to come out about Walker's past was that he abused his former wife and at one point held a gun to her head threatening to shoot. Walker also admitted that he would play Russian Roulette. In fact, he told ESPN's Highly Questionable that he'd played it "more than once." He loved the competition of it, he said.
The violence and abuse continue to be a topic from those speaking to Walker, but the Heisman Trophy winner continues to dismiss it as unimportant.
Speaking to Atlanta based "Rolling Out," an entertainment site, Walker explained it wasn't anything more than a sin.
“You know, he without sin cast the first stone," Walker said, quoting Jesus in John 8:7. Walker went on to attack his opponent, Rev. Raphael Warnock for being critical of his "sins" from 15 years ago.
Typically, one's past comes into focus when one runs for political office as a sign of judgment and leadership, and attempted murder is not generally brushed aside in political campaigns as nothing more than an everyday "sin."
Walker has also spent the past week employing the strategy of not being that intelligent, which is being called a racist dog whistle by trying "to galvanize white conservatives by leaning into antiquated and bigoted ideas," Slate explained.
#us politics#news#raw story#2022 midterms#2022 elections#2022#Ron Filipkowski#Georgia#twitter#tweet#domestic violence#tw assault#tw abuse#russian roulette#slate#espn#highly questionable#rolling out#sen. Raphael Warnock#herschel walker
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The Black men’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has announced it will move its 2025 general convention from Orlando in light of “racist” policies.
The fraternity announced the news Wednesday on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, citing “Governor DeSantis’ harmful, racist, and insensitive policies against the Black Community,” as the reason behind the decision.
Willis L. Lonzer III, the fraternity’s general president, told The Hill that last week’s controversy surrounding new education standards in the state became the tipping point in the fraternity’s decision.
“Governor DeSantis has continuously advocated for laws and policies that negatively impact Black people and other marginalized communities,” Lonzer said.
“We start first with the laws rejecting the teaching race and the cultural diversity of our nation. We can even talk about the bill that he supported, banning [diversity, equity and inclusion] initiatives in colleges and universities. But the final straw really was his advancement of this new curriculum standards released last week, suggesting enslaved people developed skills that could later be a personal benefit to them, which is absolutely absurd.”
“This is a stunt,” DeSantis’s office said in a statement to The Hill.
Florida’s new guidelines, approved last week, require lessons on race be taught in an “objective” manner that does not seek to “indoctrinate or persuade students to a particular point of view.”
One of the updated standards that received backlash requires instructors to teach that “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”
Another requires that students must learn about “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.” This includes massacres such as the Tulsa Race Massacre.
The new education standards were immediately met with backlash from Black leaders around the nation, including Vice President Harris, who blasted DeSantis in a speech in Jacksonville for “pushing propaganda” on children.
The latest set of guidelines follows the state’s decision earlier this year that prohibited an Advanced Placement African American studies course from running. At the time, the state said the class lacked educational value.
Alpha Phi Alpha was the fraternity of some of the most prominent Black leaders in America, and remains so today. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Paul Robeson, Whitney Young and Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall were all members of the fraternity.
Today, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore (D), Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.), chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, are all members.
While a new location has not been decided upon just yet, Lonzer said the fraternity expects their decision will cost the greater Orlando area some $4.6 million in revenue.
“We will not spend our money where Black people and other marginalized communities are continuously harmed by policies at the highest level of government,” Lonzer said.
He added that other members of the Divine Nine — a group of nine historically Black fraternities and sororities — are all “aligned” on the significance of ensuring that all people are treated with respect.
But he also urged those in Florida to exercise their right to vote when the time comes.
“We have not forgotten our membership or the citizens of Florida,” Lonzer said. “We are committed to encouraging them to stay vigilant and to ensure that they are in the voting process. We will continue to make our voter education opportunities available as we funnel funds to the state of Florida to ensure that they can hold various forums and can have the appropriate conversations. When the time comes to vote, we will get them out to vote.”
–Updated on July 27 at 10:36 a.m.
#Alpha Phi Alpha moves 2025 convention out of Florida over ‘racist’ policies#florida#Alpha Phi#alpha#Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity#A Phi A#Racism in Florida#florida is dangerous for Black People
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Here's a list of Fake Woke, Fake pro-Black, spineless DNC politicians and shills Black Americans should NEVER TRUST! 🎯🤷🏿♂️🤨
• Jamal “Fire alarm” Bowman
• Mayor Eric “Gandhi” Adams
• Mayor Brandon Johnson
• Jasmin “Warrior Mammie” Crockett
• Sheila “Oxtail” Jackson Lee
• Jim “fish fry” Clyburn
• Nina “flip-flopper” Turner
• Hakeem “HouseNigga” Jeffries
• Van “Crying kneegrow” Jones
• Cornell “Safe kneegrow” West
• Cori “New nigga” Bush
• Snoop
• Roland “the Buckdancing Bo0tlick” Martin
• Joy “JackAzz” Reid
• Michael Eric Dyson
• Ayanna Pressley
• Cornell Brooks
• Derrick “WeEz aLLz iMmIgRaNtS” Johnson
• Rev. William Barber “The Pork Chop Preacher”
• TD Cakes
• Stacey “Hamburger helper” Abrams
• Bakari Sellout
• Marc “LaMoist” Hill
• Corny Jemele Hill
• Al “FBI” Sharpton
• April Ryan
• Jelani Cobb
• Donna Brazile
• Jaime Harrison
• James Sanders
• Basil Smikle
• Tiffany Crosseyes
• Karen Hunter
• Kerry Washington
• Tamika “Cadillac” Mallory
• P-Lies
• QuestLove
• Jonathan “Buck broken” Caphart
• Gary “Black & brown” Chambers
• Symone “Big back” Sanders
• Greg “the PanAfric@nBo0tyscratcher”
Carr
• Killer Mike
• Benjamin “Mumble Mouth” Crump
• Chris Rock
• Spike Lee
• The Wades
• Barbara Lee
• Raphael “Potato head” Warnock
• DL Hughley
• MC Lyte
• Whoopi Goldberg
• Okrah Winfrey
• Agent DuVernay
• Tyler Perry
• The Obamas
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9/20/20 Ben Meiselas, One of the Golden Boys with the MeidasTouch
Ben Meiselas is the co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network (MTN), which he started with his brothers, Brett and Jordan. The MeidasTouch is responsible for thousands of anti-Trump videos on YouTube and other social media sites. They have posted over 6,500,000 videos and have over 1.6 million subscribers according to YouTube.
Ben and his brothers promised to always state the truth on their MeidasTouch vids. In the 11/28/2020 issue of the “Hollywood Reporter,” Brett stated, “We are very careful and put a lot of thought into our messaging and into everything that we create, but we also don’t sit on it for weeks to make sure that everything about it is absolutely perfect. [emphasis added]. We need to be current. We need to be provocative. We need to be truthful and on top of it and continuously get the message out.”
A Google search showed some cracks.
During the December 2020 debate between Rev. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Senator Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), a strand of her long hair appeared lighter than other strands. Her critics claimed that this was proof that she was wearing a wire, and Ben was one of those critics. He shared this theory with his 100,000+ followers. The allegation was soon refuted.
The Meiselas brothers’ transparency took another hit after an interview with Seth Hettena, a freelance writer for the Rolling Stone. He interviewed the brothers in December 2010, and the article ran in the April 2021 issue. The headline read, “The Trouble with MeidasTouch,” and the opening continued, “The brothers behind the breakout anti-Trump PAC are the golden boys of the #Resistance, but when ‘Rolling Stone’ took a look beneath the surface, their response turned Trumpian.” Ouch!
Mr. Hettena continued, “The group spent more than $1 million on an advertising strategy that it calls revolutionary but campaign veterans and independent experts say is nonsensical and a more effective tool for fundraising than for helping Democrats win elections. And despite its promised transparency, MeidasTouch’s financial structure makes a dollar-for-dollar accounting of its spending impossible — and, according to a former Federal Election Commission attorney, raises some of the same legal issues that got the Trump campaign into trouble in 2020.” That had to hurt.
The brothers made the declaration that they had supported Democratic nominees with their money. Mr. Hettena made the distinction that MeidasTouch were using other people’s money, not their own.
The brothers used their platform to protest Mr. Hettena’s article in a 40-minute rant. Among other statements, Ben declared that he doesn’t earn a salary for his work on MeidasTouch and that he has also shut down a significant portion of his law practice since Covid started. He described Mr. Hettena as a hack freelance who wants to write a journalistic hit piece on them because of their SuperPAC status.
Is Seth Hettena really a hack? To find out, I did a background check on the investigative journalist. A Google Scholar search yielded many links. I learned that he wrote two books: Trump/Russia: A Definitive History, which documented the two world leaders’ history together. Jane Mayer, author of “The New York Times’bestseller, Dark Money, wrote "Hettena is a first-rate reporter and wonderful story-teller, and the tale he tells here is mind-boggling.”
Hettena clearly supports the anti-Trump rhetoric created by the Meiselas brothers, but he has a problem with their SuperPac status. For starters, the reporter stated that after the brothers declared a six-figure advertising airtime buy, a search of invoices TV stations filed with the Federal Communications Commission shows the group spent less than $80,000 worth of donor money.
I don’t share Ben Meiselas’s opinion that Seth Hettena is a political hack. He has written two well-received books and was endorsed by a New York Times columnist. In addition to The Rolling Stone, Mr. Hettena has written for other reputable journals like The New Republic, and he is currently working on an expose of the CIA and Navy Seals in Iraq. Mr. Hettena applauds the MeidasTouch Network for the good that they do. His problem is with SuperPacs in general, an opinion he shares with many others. The Brennan Center for Justice outlined those concerns on their website. as documented in their blog “10 Years of Super PACs Show Courts Were Wrong on Corruption Risks.
The MeidasTouch continues to air hundreds of videos per month. The ex-president is less of a focal point in these videos as the brothers have targeted other far right Republicans as well.
As the saying goes, nobody is perfect, which clearly applies to the Meiselas brothers. But I applaud their efforts trying to keep our nation intact.
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Rev Raphael Warnock (Georgia) being sworn in by VP today.
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We were in the front row of the IG show tonight when a tech came out to tell Emily that commentators had begun to call the GA senate race for Rev Warnock. She announced it to the crowd and we stood and cheered. Emily and Amy are from GA. The spirit of MLK was with us tonight.
-V
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On Saturday, PBS News dived deep into the history of how racist laws conceived in the Jim Crow era form the origin of the Georgia runoff system, which has required Democratic Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock to stand for a second round of voting after narrowly edging out Trump-endorsed NFL veteran Herschel Walker in November by plurality.
"Since the 1960s, Georgia’s majority voting law has required a candidate get 50 percent of the vote or more in order to be declared the winner, and was introduced by a staunch segregationist legislator named Denmark Groover," wrote Nicole Ellis and Rachel Liesendahl. "Even now, the law 'makes it more difficult for any group which forms a minority in the population to elect its candidates of choice,' regardless of the candidates’ ethnicity, historian and California Institute of Technology professor Morgan Kousser told the PBS NewsHour’s Nicole Ellis."
"When so-called 'white-only primary' elections were deemed unconstitutional in 1946, Black voter registration surged across the South, including in Georgia. In 1940, an estimated 250,000 Black southerners were registered to vote and that number rose to 775,000 by 1948, according to data from the National Park Service," said the report. "When Groover lost reelection to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1958 despite winning the majority of the white vote, data from segregated polling places in Macon revealed that Black voters contributed to the upset victory by his opponent, Kousser said. In his book, 'Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second Reconstruction,' Kousser writes that Groover’s opponent 'triumphed by garnering black ballots by a five-to-one margin.'"
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