Completely Horrible People

Politico reports: A deluge of radio spots and mailers targeting transgender children is hitting swing-state voters as part of a broad ad campaign directed by prominent Trump administration alums. Polling rarely registers transgender-related issues as a top priority for voters, with other topics like the economy and public safety taking the lead in this midterm cycle. But America First Legal, …

Newsweek reports: Donald Trump Jr. has made light of the attack on Paul Pelosi while praising jokes about it on his social media page. The son of former President Donald Trump mocked Paul Pelosi on both Twitter and Instagram. On Twitter on Saturday, a picture was posted showing a hammer lying on top of men’s underwear. It was captioned: “Got …

Bloomberg News reports: Elon Musk on Sunday deleted a tweet he posted earlier in the day espousing a conspiracy theory about an assault on Paul Pelosi, the husband of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Musk had shared a link to an article detailing a right-wing conspiracy about the circumstances of the attack, which drew wide condemnation, from a website known for …

The Independent reports: Elon Musk has shared a lurid, baseless conspiracy theory on Twitter about what transpired the night of the violent hammmer attack on Paul Pelosi – just days after he took over the social media platform on the promise of stripping away content moderation. “There is a tiny possibility there might be more to this story than meets …

“Stacey Abrams, who of course, has no resumé. This is a woman who the only thing she is known for, besides for setting a record at the Golden Corral buffet is that she ran for governor last time, and then when she lost, she said that it was an illegitimate election. “Anyway, she’s running again. And here she is and …

Mediaite reports: Tucker Carlson announced the results of a Twitter poll he held asking respondents to choose a new name for monkeypox, a viral disease that can cause fever, muscle pain, lesions, and other symptoms. There has been an effort to change the name of monkeypox due to stigmas associated with it in certain communities. Carlson said he objected to …

The Tallahassee Democrat reports: Florida congressman Matt Gaetz told a crowd of young people at a conference here Saturday that women protesting abortion access are less likely to get pregnant because they aren’t attractive. “Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions?” Gaetz said. “Nobody wants to …

Raw Story reports: Election denier Jenna Ellis received harsh criticism on Thursday when she referred to Olympic gold medalists Simone Biles and Megan Rapinoe as “losers” after they received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Trump awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor to billionaire GOP donor Miriam Adelson, Rush Limbaugh and Reps. Devin Nunes (R-CA) and Jim Jordan (R-OH), among others. …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) sported a celebratory grin as she was mobbed by protesters and heckled Friday outside the Supreme Court. The freshman congresswoman celebrated after the court overturned Roe v. Wade. Her presence drew a reaction from protestors on both sides of the abortion issue. In one video, someone yelled, “Eat shit, Marjorie!” Another person called …

“Okay, in other words, you fell. You had a fall. Gotcha. That’s a line-of-duty injury as well. A couple of hundred yards from you, Ashli Babbitt was being dragged backwards out of the Capitol as she was bleeding out, shot by one of your fellow officers, even though she was unarmed. Posed no threat to anyone. OK? But you bumped …

The Daily Beast reports: The family of Isaac Hayes has spoken out against former president Donald Trump walking off and dancing to one of the late soul music pioneer’s songs following his controversial speech at the annual NRA convention. The ex-president’s speech at the gun-lobby event, mere days after 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were massacred in Uvalde, Texas, featured …

Media Matters has the transcript: LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): I want to be very, very clear tonight. President Biden appeared on camera tonight for less than eight minutes, not because he believed that his words would comfort the families or the friends of the victims, not because he believed that he would calm what are obviously frayed nerves of a worried …

“If you’re gonna get an abortion, you do have to get banged. So all of the blue-haired pro-choice protesters don’t need to worry much about abortions. I’m sorry, I just had to say that. “It’s easy to give something up when you don’t have it. It’s easy to give up shopping when you’re broke, like we all are under Joe …

From Milo Yiannopoulos’ Telegram channel: I’ve never been the same since Covid. I didn’t get sick when it was just the flu, but I did come down with one of those super-strong, souped-up, vaccine-enhanced incarnations of the virus that were doing the rounds last summer. My blood oxygen went down to 65, briefly. I didn’t care. I wasn’t prepared to …

From the Log Cabin Republicans: Gay, lesbian, and bisexual members of society would effectively become an ‘extinct species’ under this bill. That’s because it would enshrine the gender identity agenda that is counter to gay rights. For decades, we gays preached to the world that we were ‘born this way,’ and that being gay, lesbian, or bisexual ‘is not a …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Illinois U.S. Rep. Marie Newman’s push to pass a law that would ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans has put her at the center of a feud with controversial Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, a pro-Trump freshman congresswoman from Georgia who has espoused baseless conspiracy theories. On Tuesday, Newman took to the House floor urging for the passage …

The New York Daily News reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is declaring war on the Equality Act, calling the effort to defend LGBT rights an attack on people of faith. The far right-wing lawmaker says the act will force Christians to approve abortions and would treat transgender people the same as those born as a boy or a girl. …

Snopes reports: Radio host Rush Limbaugh has died at the age of 70 after a year-long battle with lung cancer. As conservative fans mourned the death of the radio pioneer, many on social media pointed to Limbaugh’s history of making sexist, homophobic, and bigoted remarks. Author Jessica Valenti, for example, posted a message on Twitter stating that Limbaugh once had …

The New York Times reports: Ms. Greene, elected to Congress in November, has for years circulated bogus theories, including around mass shootings. On Tuesday, CNN reported that in 2018 and 2019, Ms. Greene indicated support on her Facebook page for commenters recommending violence against Democratic leaders. In January 2019, CNN reported, Ms. Greene “liked a comment that said ‘a bullet …

Jenna Ellis, Trump lawyer and self-avowed Christian, was recently exposed for lying about her termination from a Colorado county’s district attorney’s office and for having invented most of her resume. Last night she took at potshot at the appearance of Biden press secretary Jen Psaki, implying that Psaki is trying to look like a man. Ellis’s tweet was in response …