How many indictments such as these will it take before the general population admits Trump, and despots like this, tried to nullify 87 million votes and overthrow a duly and honestly elected president? Are they so filled with hate for some of their fellow Americans that they'll attempt to overthrow our government and destroy the democracy so many members of the military gave their lives to protect?

Stop and consider for a moment the character of the average Trump supporter you meet on the street. Is this the caliber of person you want to determine the future of our country?

The tide is turning against this cadre of malcontents and criminals, hundreds and hundreds of indictments all across our nation are raining down upon them, and no matter their station, presidential advisor, former cabinet member, lawyer, or local official, they will all be tried, convicted, and sent to prison along with the tyrant, Trump.

See this --Italics mine.

© Thomson Reuters

By Nathan Layne

(Reuters) - A Michigan township clerk was charged with multiple felonies on Wednesday, the latest turn in a state inquiry into efforts by Donald Trump supporters to tamper with voting machines to prove his false claim that he lost the 2020 election due to fraud.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said in a statement that former Adams Township Clerk Stephanie Scott, 52, has been charged with five felonies related to unauthorized use of a computer, concealing a voting machine, and misconduct in office, and one misdemeanor for disobeying the secretary of state. The most serious count carries a potential seven-year prison term.

Nessel also added three felonies to the charges faced by Scott's attorney Stefanie Lambert, who was already facing multiple charges over allegations she accessed and tampered with voting machines in other incidents across the state.

Neither Scott nor Lambert immediately responded to a request for comment. Lambert has previously denied wrongdoing.

Scott, a Republican, had overseen voting in rural Adams Township until the state revoked her authority over elections in 2021 for resisting state orders to allow testing and maintenance on the voting tabulator in her care, claiming it would erase evidence of potential fraud. Scott withheld a critical component of the tabulator until it was seized by state police, law enforcement records show.

In addition to disregarding orders from the state authorities regarding the tabulator, Nessel accused Scott and Lambert of providing a computer examiner unauthorized access to non-public voter information in violation of state law.

"When elected officials and their proxies use their positions to promote baseless conspiracies, show blatant disregard for voter privacy, and break the law in the process, it undermines the very essence of the democratic process," Nessel said in the statement.

Reuters reported on the potential violation in late 2022, detailing Scott's sharing of a file containing confidential voter data with Benjamin Cotton, an information-technology expert who had worked with voter-fraud conspiracists seeking unauthorized access to election systems in other states.

Scott's actions were part of a national effort by public officials and others seeking evidence of Trump's false stolen-election claims. The allegations against Scott have parallels to the high-profile case of Tina Peters, the clerk in Mesa County, Colorado, who is set to go to trial this year over an alleged scheme to breach secure equipment in her own elections office in 2021 to try to uncover evidence of election fraud.

Hey guys I’m gonna be immigrating to America in about a month as a teenager. My family is unreliable financially and where I’m living right now I am financially managing myself through my small business. I want to get a job there as soon as possible obviously part time since I’m only 16. Just to get a peace of mind how high do you guys think the stake is for me to be able to land an odd part time job in Massachusetts? Please do leave some advice

In a continuing effort to distort and destroy our entire electoral process, Kari Lake is encouraging the radicals of MAGA to arm themselves in the event they lose yet another election. Trump, himself, said he might not accept the will of the American people, South Carolina senator, Tim Scott, echoed those threats, and there have been many, many other threats of civil war -- calls for open war against our legitimate government by fanatics in the GOP if they again do not prevail at the polls.

The Constitution guarantees all Americans a broad array of rights, but not the right to enforce your political will at the point of a gun.

The MAGA goal is a simple one. Thy know the threat of gunplay at the polls will affect turnout, turnout of decent, hardworking Americans, not the turnout of those already predisposed to violence.

If a Glock or AR-15 is your favored method of persuasion, then your intent is nothing but evil and shows you don't give a damn about America.

See below -- Italics mine.

© Francis Chung/POLITICO

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) aired concerns over Arizona Senate hopeful Kari Lake’s call to voters last month to “strap on a Glock” saying Lake’s remarks could get someone injured — or worse.

“It's dangerous,” Kelly told NBC’s Kristen Welker during an interview on “Meet the Press.” “What Kari Lake said could result in people getting hurt or killed.”

The run-up to the election “is going to be intense,” Lake told supporters during a rally in Arizona’s Mohave County. “And we need to strap on our — let’s see. What do we want to strap on? We’re going to strap on … our seat belt. We’re going to put on our helmet or your Kari Lake ball cap. We are going to put on the armor of God. And maybe strap on a Glock on the side of us just in case,” she said.

Lake, a staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump, gained prominence on the right for her obsession with conspiracy theories surrounding the results of the 2020 presidential election during her gubernatorial bid in 2022. She’s since moderated her image and has reached out to some of the members of her own party whom she alienated during her run for governor.

Arizona became the focal point in Trump’s alleged campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election, an effort that’s since landed his allies in legal jeopardy. An Arizona grand jury late last month indicted 18 Trump allies for their efforts to subvert the 2020 election — including former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and attorneys Rudy Giuliani and Boris Epshteyn.

Kelly said Sunday he’s “very concerned” Arizona could see similar efforts this time around.

“We have Kari Lake on the ballot in the Senate race, who is also talking about how the 2020 election was stolen here from Donald Trump. Clearly wasn't," Kelly said. "Same thing in 2022 when she ran for governor. She's on the ballot again*. These folks have been indicted*. I trust our judicial system, that they're going to go through a process. And however this turns out, we all have to accept what that process is."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/sen-mark-kelly-kari-lake-comments-could-result-in-people-getting-hurt-or-killed/ar-BB1lR941?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=cf012445329541fa875dab8a7d5fdb90&ei=128

On the surface this story may seem to be such a big deal to the average American, but to MAGA and all their Congressional co-conspirators it is staggering. Attorney (soon to be former attorney) John Eastman was one of the primary movers in multiple schemes to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States and install Trump as dictator.

In his astounding arrogance, with Scott Perry, he formulated the plan to fire acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen and replace him with Trump lackey, Jeffrey Clarke. Once in office Clarke could falsely claim the Justice Department was conducting an investigation into the whole 2020 election and that would give Trump cover to impound the voting machines and implement the Insurrection Act.

The Insurrection Act gives the president unlimited, and unchecked powers up to, and including declaring martial law and putting troops on the streets to quell any citizen protests. Under the Insurrection Act neither the Supreme Court or the Congress has any power to act. The insidious scheme was brought to a halt when the entire upper tier (as well as some of trump's own attorneys) threatened to resign en masse.

But did that stop the traitors. No, from there Eastman devised a scheme where seditionists could claim their panel of phony electoral college electors were the true states representatives and award all the votes to Trump. This scheme, too, failed when mike Pence refused to recognize them and ethically upheld his judicial responsibilities.

All the schemes failed and now the chickens are coming home to roost. Eastman and his whole cadre of traitors have been indicted for their treason in Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona and Michigan (with more to follow). They will face the wrath of the Courts and the millions of citizens whose vote they tried to circumvent.

And it won't stop there! it won't stop there!

Other schemers will soon face the music. Traitorous scum like Ron Johnson, Paul Gosar, Josh Hawley, Mike Waltz, Jim Jordan, Mike Lee and their co-conspirators too numerous to mention here, whose cell phone records already reside in the files of the FBI, will soon be hauled in by the scruff of their filthy necks.

First Trump, then Eastman, Giuliani, Meadows and the rest, and then the Congressional betrayers of their country.

Some have already flipped and agreed to testify, thus assuring conviction of the rest. The fun part is going to be watching them all squirm, and in their terror. squeal on each other like the pigs they are.

See this -- Italics mine.

© Ja Getz-Pool/Getty Images

In a decisive move by the D.C. Court of Appeals, John Eastman's law license has been temporarily suspended, echoing a similar suspension in California due to his controversial involvement in post-2020 election legal strategies aimed at maintaining Donald Trump’s presidency.

This latest legal blow comes after California State Bar Court Judge Yvette Roland recommended Eastman's disbarment, highlighting his ongoing threat to public integrity. The suspension order, penned by Chief Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, stipulates that Eastman's practice rights in D.C. remain in abeyance pending the final outcome of the proceedings in California. Moreover, the D.C. challenge to his license remains paused, awaiting the resolution of his California case, where a final verdict from the California Supreme Court is pending, subject to further appeals by Eastman.

The nonpartisan States United Democracy Center, instrumental in filing complaints against Eastman in both jurisdictions, has praised the D.C. court's decision. Senior Counsel Gillian Feiner emphasized that those who violate their oaths and misuse their legal authority to undermine democratic processes should face stringent penalties.

Eastman's legal woes extend beyond these disbarment proceedings. He is also implicated in multiple other legal disputes across various states, including Arizona and Georgia, where he faces allegations of conspiring to overturn the legitimate election results.

Notably, Eastman spoke at a rally preceding the tragic January 6 Capitol riot, an event that has significantly tainted his professional and public reputation. While he is not currently charged in the related federal election interference case, Eastman remains a person of interest, dubbed an unnamed co-conspirator.

His legal team consistently defends his innocence across all charges. This broad set of implications seriously underscores the level of scrutiny and potential consequences under which attorneys find themselves for activities perceived to be a threat to the very fabric of democracy in the United States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/john-eastman-s-law-license-temporarily-suspended-by-d-c-court/ar-BB1lQ7OP?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=c1a865e5f34646819de80777d9d8c91a&ei=95

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They don't do this in China. They don't do this is Russia. They don't do this in Iran -- but the GOP (now known as MAGA) will take religious crackpottery to a new level and if given the opportunity will monitor the pregnancy of all American women. Forget about your right to privacy, the Christo-fascists will decree you must submit to multiple vaginal examinations in order to maintain complete control over women and their bodies.

First, their aim is to outlaw contraception, but if their efforts should fail their back-up plan is even more odious. Again, if Republicans are voted into office they will track the menstrual cycles of our wives, sisters, and daughters to determine if a woman had an perfectly legal, medically needed abortion, and then bring charges against her.

This is madness, this is MAGA, and this is what will happen if you vote for any Republican, anywhere in America!

Read this report -- italics mine.

In a new, wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, former president Donald Trump said he would be fine with states tracking people’s pregnancies in order to prosecute those who have abortions past a given state’s gestational limit. “I think they might do that,” Trump said in response to the question of whether states “should monitor women’s pregnancies so they can know if they’ve gotten an abortion after the ban.” “Again, you’ll have to speak to the individual states,” he said.

When the reporter asked whether Trump would be comfortable with states prosecuting women for having abortions — a throwback to the notorious 2016 campaign moment when he received backlash for saying women should face “some sort of punishment” for illegal abortions — he said, “It’s irrelevant whether I’m comfortable or not. It’s totally irrelevant because the states are going to make those decisions.”

The answer went viral on X, where several journalists, politicians, and influential Democrats compared the notion of pregnancy tracking to the plot of The Handmaid’s Tale. But this is not some far-fetched scenario. It’s already happened in recent years, both under the first Trump administration and in Missouri.

News of the Trump administration’s pregnancy tracking first surfaced in late 2017 when four teenage migrants sued the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) for keeping a weekly spreadsheet of information about the pregnancies of minors in its custody, including the gestational age of the fetus, whether the pregnancy arose from consensual sex, and whether each girl had requested an abortion. While a federal judge forbade the agency from trying to interfere with pregnant minors getting abortions in March 2018, Vice reported the following year that the agency continued to maintain the database despite the court order.

Later in 2019, the director of Missouri’s state health department admitted during a legal battle over the license for the state’s last remaining Planned Parenthood clinic that he had directed an investigator to compile a spreadsheet monitoring patients’ period. The purpose of the database, according to the Kansas City Star, was to try to identify patients who’d had “failed abortions” as the state attempted to shut down abortion clinics. The subject line of the email circulated among health-department staffers, which was found through legal discovery, read, “Duplicate ITOPs [Induced Termination of Pregnancy] with last normal menses date.”

Both the Missouri and ORR revelations occurred years before the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. But the threat of similar surveillance looms large post-Dobbs. Democratic state legislators in Virginia, a purple state that allows abortions up to 26 weeks and where the issue often swings elections, tried to preemptively block a pregnancy-tracking situation in 2023 by passing a bill that would ban search warrants from obtaining people’s menstrual data. Democrats were responding to a new threat flagged by privacy experts that law enforcement could seize data from period-tracking apps to prosecute women for having abortions. But Governor Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, reportedly thwarted that measure from becoming law. The same year, the Florida High School Athletic Administration’s board of directors voted to remove questions about high-school girls’ menstrual histories from a questionnaire students had to fill out in order to participate in sports after weeks of controversy about how the information could be used under Governor Ron DeSantis’s anti-abortion and anti-trans agenda...

https://www.thecut.com/article/trump-time-interview-pregnancy-tracking.html

How aggressive can a puppy be? Mischievous, yes, but aggressive? Face it, unless the puppy has been abused, generally its own thought is to be loving, playful, and consumed with romping about and having fun. Put a child together with a puppy and you will never witness a performance of sheer joy like it. Puppies are sentient beings, and with their big eyes, and floppy tails captivate any compassionate soul, but one must possess a soul to appreciate them.

There can be no excuse for shooting it! Taking it out back, shooting it, and leaving the mangled body as fodder for the crows to pick out its eyes, the vultures to tear at the body, and vermin to feed on the bones. What could be a more despicable act?

But the former GOP, now the MAGA party, has a reputation for abject cruelty to humans, so it comes as no surprise it has come to relish savagery and callousness because it fulfills their sick need to display power over those who can't fight back.

They want to abolish Obamacare no matter the millions it hurts, they want to sunset Social Security no matter the generations they will leave impoverished, and they want to do away with Medicare and Medicaid and return to the dark days when insurance companies determined who would receive healthcare, and who wouldn't. They have no use for child labor laws, a woman's dominion over her own body, unemployment insurance for the needy, and any, and all, social reform that didn't increase the wealth of the already obscenely wealthy.

Folks, this is what MAGA is. Be prepared for even greater cruelty if they win any more elections.

So, shoot a puppy rather than take it to a pound where it might bring comfort to a child? Why not? ask Kristi Noem; she seems to have enjoyed doing it.

See below -- Italics mine.

Kristi Noem’s dog-killing embodies the cruel phoniness of today’s Republicans

Ryan Busse

The South Dakota governor’s proud dog murder tells a lot about how posturing Trumpists like she and Greg Gianforte think

After South Dakota’s Republican governor, Kristi Noem, proudly admitted in a forthcoming memoir to marching her young puppy Cricket to a gravel pit to kill her with a shotgun, she rationalized the despicable act by arguing that Cricket had been aggressive.

She also said that she used the same gravel pit to shoot a “disgusting, musky, rancid” unnamed goat – but botched the job, leaving the goat to suffer unnecessarily while she rushed to her truck to get a second shell. (It’s unclear why Noem, supposedly a shrewd outdoorswoman, didn’t think to carry more shells on her.)

Noem has defended her story by proclaiming that Americans want “leaders who are authentic”. It’s a bad excuse. It’s also untrue, because Noem, like so many other political firebrands who are infiltrating and redefining the Republican party, is anything but authentic.

Her political brand is simply a veneer – a fake, stylized brand of dangerous Trump Republicanism whose moral roots are about as deep as a bad facelift. This brand not only fails what used to be the Republican party; it is also destroying and dividing the US, and it’s more evident than ever here in the American west...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/may/01/trump-republican-kristi-noem-shoot-dog

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In the past Trump has sunk to limitless depths to at least demean black voters when he wasn't trying to disenfranchise them altogether. He has aligned himself with every racist, white supremacist and pro-Nazi group while enjoying the support of the GOP and MAGA cabal in a never ending battle to keep blacks from the polls.

Now, in a move beyond shameless, he is pandering to the same voters he so viciously slandered. Trump will lie about any subject at any time, and then when it seems convenient will contradict himself without a blush or stammer, and now is actually seeking support from the very same people he frequently disparages.

You can't make this stuff up.

Look at this -- Italics mine.

Trump supporters target Black voters with bigoted radio ads.

An organization allied with Donald Trump is relying on ads chock-full of right-wing lies and propaganda to deter Black voters from casting ballots for President Biden.

April 29, 2024, 4:03 PM EDT

By Ja'han Jones

Donald Trump and his allies are trying to appeal to Black voters with overpriced sneakers, fried chicken, past-their-prime rappers and, now, some plain old bigotry to boot. In recent months, Trump-allied groups have begun running radio ads targeting voters in largely Black areas that push a raft of offensive claims as they seek to undermine support for President Joe Biden. The ads were highlighted by sports journalist Jemele Hill over the weekend during her coverage of the NFL draft in Detroit.

"Don’t know if people have heard these ads Trump’s campaign is running on urban radio but they are WILD,” Hill wrote, “as in wildly filled with massive misinformation, sprinkled in with some bigotry.”

Hill didn't share an example, but a similar-sounding ad called “Our Communities” was launched by the pro-Trump organization MAGA Inc. in March and schedule for airtime in Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The ad is chock-full of MAGA misinformation. In it, a narrator claims that Biden is “letting Mexican cartels pump drugs and fentanyl into our streets,” that he’s “busing rapists and murderers into our communities,” and that the “crooks in Congress are handing our tax dollars to illegals.”

It’s hard to choose where to start with the corrections.

Trump has promoted racist generalizations of Mexican immigrants as drug-dealers, killers and rapists from the moment he publicly launched his first campaign bid in 2015, despite that data shows immigrants tend to commit crimes at lower rates than U.S.-born citizens. There’s certainly no evidence the Biden administration is letting cartels “pump drugs” into American streets. In fact, there’s ample evidence to the contrary. And despite zero-sum rhetoric about immigrants receiving jobs, privileges and welfare benefits over American citizens, these claims keep being proven false.

The ad also pushed anti-trans bigotry, underscoring a phenomenon I've highlighted in the past: Trump and his minions trying to spread their anti-trans agenda through Black communities. The narrator claims Trump will “protect our daughters’ sports teams” from “men competing against women” and “stop the sexualization of our children.” Experts who oversee women’s sports have said trans people’s involvement doesn’t rank anywhere near their industries’ top issues. And let’s just say that Trump is an unusual choice when making the case against sexualizing children.

The ad is an obvious attempt to indoctrinate Black voters with a MAGA worldview. But it was so packed with bigoted propaganda, it felt like it needed a disclaimer at the end like a prescription drug ad. Perhaps a fast-talking narrator at the end could note that side effects of electing Trump include attacks on Black election workers, installation of judges who’ve gutted Black voting rights, accusations against largely Black cities of election fraud, vows to shield police accused of violent misconduct, open association with neo-Nazis and white supremacists, a full-on assault on Black history in schools, and routine public attacks on Black women.

Ja'han Jones

https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-radio-ads-biden-rcna149854

We judge people. It is in our nature to do so; probably a defense mechanism left over from prehistoric times. If they saw a thug named Ug approaching with a well-honed mandible and casting covetous glances at their girlfriend, Sally, their ability to assess character was about to be tested; and they had better guess right! But all stress would be relieved if the thug, Ug ,began balancing the club on his nose while doing the original soft shoe.

(No shoes -- get it?)

Since then, a sense of humor has been one of the criteria by which we judge a person's character; a reasonable method of evaluation. Their ability to elicit a smile is usually indicative of an affable fellow, easy to accept and not at all threatening. There are, of course, exceptions to every rule, but for every Charles Adams aberration and grotesquerie there are a million Mister Peepers.

So, for the most part I think it's safe to say, --as far as criteria go -- the projection of humor is as valid a determinate of congeniality and pleasantness as any other.

Now, I am no Biblical scholar. Like anyone else I have heard some of the stories, questioned some of the magic and tricks. and took it all with a grain of salt. The reason for my cynicism? I don't think I ever heard of Jesus telling a joke.

Makes you wonder...

Really, what did they expect? In their incomprehensible arrogance did they really believe they could nullify the votes of eighty-seven million voters and install megalomaniacal despot and no one would challenge them? Are they all dumb as stumps?

Now a whole coordinated cadre of them, spread -- so far --, among four states are facing charges that could put them in prison for decades. The charges range from conspiracy, fraud, and forgery, but the underlying charge, the one not yet mentioned but seething beneath it al is treason! Their scheme was to undermine our entire democratic process, manipulate and bastardize it, take away the rights of the majority and replace the Constitution with the 'Insurrection Act' and negate all our civil rights in one single act of tyranny.

There would be no free speech, no right to petition the government, no right to assembly, etc, etc.
Now they are all indicted. Soon to face trial and inevitable conviction. But that won't be the end of it, not by a long shot. You see, these traitors are but minor players in the overall insidious plot to destroy America. They are lawyers and low level functionaries, but the real American Taliban are some of our elected leaders sprinkled throughout the government.

Congressmen and state officials like Scott Perry, Jim Jordan, Mike Lee, Paul Gosar, Boebert and Margy Greene, Mike Waltz, Tom Cotton, Ron Johnson, just to name a few whose family names will be viewed with disgust down through the generations. Their shame will never be ameliorated, their crimes against their own countrymen will never be forgiven, and if true justice does exist some enterprising young prosecutor will seek the ultimate penalty to deter any future political opportunists.
'The wheels of Justice..." first Trump, then the traitors named below, then the prize package: The Justice Department has all the evidence they need to put these bastards in prison forever, and the march toward inevitable justice has just begun.
© Provided by The Associated Press
PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities revealed Friday the conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges filed against an ex-aide of former President Donald Trump and four attorneys in Arizona’s fake elector case, but the names of former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani remained blacked out. The Arizona attorney general's office released a copy of the indictment that revealed nine felony counts had been filed against Mike Roman, who was Trump’s director of Election Day operations, and attorneys John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Boris Epshteyn and Jenna Ellis. The lawyers were accused of organizing an attempt to use fake documents to persuade Congress not to certify Joe Biden's victory.
The office had announced Wednesday that conspiracy, fraud and forgery charges had been filed against 11 Arizona Republicans who submitted a document to Congress falsely declaring that Trump won in Arizona in the 2020 presidential election. They included a former state GOP chair, a 2022 U.S. Senate candidate and two sitting state lawmakers.
The identities of seven other defendants, including Giuliani and Meadows, were not released on Wednesday because they had not yet been served with the indictments. They were readily identifiable based on descriptions of the defendants, but the charges against them were not clear. Roman, Epshteyn, Bobb and Ellis declined to comment, did not respond or could not be reached. Representatives of Eastman, Meadows and Giuliani have attacked the prosecution as political.
Trump himself was not charged but was referred to as an unindicted co-conspirator.
With the indictments, Arizona becomes the fourth state where allies of the former president have been charged with using false or unproven claims about voter fraud related to the election.
Those charged in the Arizona case are scheduled for their initial court hearing on May 21.
The 11 people who had been nominated to be Arizona’s Republican electors met in Phoenix on Dec. 14, 2020, to sign a certificate saying they were “duly elected and qualified” electors and claiming that Trump carried the state. A one-minute video of the signing ceremony was posted on social media by the Arizona Republican Party at the time. The document was later sent to Congress and the National Archives, where it was ignored.

There have been a Niagra of indictments raining down upon Trump, his congressional and political co-conspirators, the GOP. and dozens of like-minded low-level functionaries, all of whom were engaged in one insidious scheme, that to Overthrow the legitimate Government of the United States.

Treason, there is no other word to describe it. They have made every attempt to nullify the honest vote of eighty-seven million Americans and install a despot in the White House.

And yet, Republican conservatives still support this cabal of insurrectionists. Daily, they show their disdain if not outright hatred of their country by giving immoral support and financial support to those who would undermine our Constitution and Democracy.

Do their petty prejudices and unreasonable hatred of all things truly American mean more to them than decency and fairmindedness?

See below" Italics mine,

PHOENIX — An Arizona grand jury on Wednesday indicted seven attorneys or aides affiliated with Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign as well as 11 Arizona Republicans on felony charges related to their alleged efforts to subvert Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in the state, according to an announcement by the state attorney general.

Those indicted include former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, John Eastman and Christina Bobb, top campaign adviser Boris Epshteyn and former campaign aide Mike Roman. They are accused of allegedly aiding an unsuccessful strategy to award the state’s electoral votes to Trump instead of Biden after the 2020 election. Also charged are the Republicans who signed paperwork on Dec. 14, 2020, that falsely purported Trump was the rightful winner, including former state party chair Kelli Ward, two state senators and Tyler Bowyer, a GOP national committeeman and chief operating officer of Turning Point Action, the campaign arm of the pro-Trump conservative group Turning Point USA.

Trump was not charged, but he is described in the indictment as an unindicted co-conspirator.

The indictments cap a year-long investigation by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) into how the elector strategy played out in Arizona, which Biden won by 10,457 votes. Arizona is the fourth state after Michigan, Georgia and Nevada to seek charges against those who formed an alternate slate of presidential electors. As those cases slowly make their way through the legal system, Trump is again running for president, and officials in Arizona and other battleground states are preparing for another likely contentious election.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/meadows-giuliani-and-other-trump-allies-charged-in-arizona-2020-election-probe/ar-AA1nBFYW?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=3f9e9e9b9a414b49b41aed5c008efcd0&ei=20

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America is this the kind of government you want?

A government that has advocated executing high ranking military officers. A government that has vowed to put troops on the streets to suppress lawful protesters. A government that refuses to abide by the Constitution. A government that will shoot down immigrants? A government that will shoot down petty criminals in the streets? A government that will impound voting machines so the results cannot be verified?

A government ruled by a bastardized form of the GOP?

Here is Trump's official spokesperson -- his daughter-in-law -- promising a future of tyranny and despotism.

Read this: all italics mine.

Lara Trump Threatens Enemies With “Scorched Earth” In Speech

by Lucy Strathmore in Daily Edition | April 20, 2024

Newly installed RNC co-chair Lara Trump, daughter-in-law of former President Donald Trump, is campaigning for the presumptive GOP nominee as he attends his criminal trial in Manhattan, where he faces 34 felony counts for allegedly falsifying business documents related to payments made to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election.

As seen in the video below, Lara Trump tells a MAGA audience that when her father-in-law was president, “he showed us a whole lot that we didn’t know was going on, within the media, within Washington, D.C. He exposed a lot of people so they have to do everything they can to keep him out of the White House because they know [if] Donald Trump gets into the White House for four more years, the jig is up for them.”

[Donald Trump often talks about seeking revenge on his political enemies. At the CPAC he told the crowd: “I am your warrior, I am your justice. And for those who have been wronged and betrayed, I am your retribution.”]

Encouraged by applause from the crowd, Lara Trump raises her voice and yells, “The gloves are off,” and adds, “It’s four years of scorched earth when Donald Trump retakes the White House.”

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of “destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure.”

Note: Russia has been accused of employing scorched-earth tactics in its invasion of Ukraine. During the battle for the city of Bakhmut, Ukrainian commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky said: “The enemy has switched to so-called Syrian scorched-earth tactics.”

(Syrsky’s Syrian adjective refers to Vladimir Putin sending Russian troops and aircraft into Syria in 2015, “destroying towns and cities” in an offensive that “turned the tide of the Syrian civil war in the Assad regime’s favor,” according to the New York Times.)

The RNC leader’s rhetoric is severe: The scorched-earth strategy of destroying the supply of food and water to the civilian population in an area of conflict has been banned under Article 54 of Protocol I of the 1977 Geneva Conventions.

Joe Biden received over eighty-one million votes: the majority from Christians of all stripes. Some undoubtably were devout, some worshiped in a more casual., social manner. The thing was, they were all true Christians who understood that while Joe Biden was far from a perfect man (just like the rest of us) he is a decent man who is more concerned about the work-a-day lives of the American people, than making hyperbolic, hypocritical bloviations about his supposed religiosity while draped in sackcloth and ashes.

Hell, he never even said he talks to God.

As president he works for the people and submits legislation to improve the lives of all Americans. His accomplishments are many (too many to list here} such as the Infrastructure Bill, prescription price reductions, capping the price of insulin, etc. and is not concerned with getting revenge against his political enemies by demanding phony committees to investigate phony charges.

His statements are all about policy, not the predictions of doom from Goober hucksters from backwater 'churches' who warn of imminent descent into hell for all who do not contribute to the cost of a new 40-million-dollar Gulfstream jet.

Joe talks of policy, not the rantings of messianic charlatans who worship at the feet of a convicted rapist, a tax cheat and serial adulterer.

Joe talks of policy, he doesn't try to frighten us with talk of fire and brimstone; he doesn't tell us to fall on our knees, he tells us to vote. Joe talks of policy, he's not concerned with fire breathing devils and demons, of talking in tongues, and all the other distracting gibberish of sects and cults.

Joe talks of policy, how he will spread Americas wealth to the downtrodden and disadvantaged, and not spend the money on ecclesiastical gowns fringed with gold and jewels -- on mansions and three-thousand-dollar suits while some of his adherents live in abject poverty.

Joe talks of policy, he doesn't call all of us sinners who will suffer in flames and degradation, doesn't say we are all evil and subject to God's wrath if we demand equal rights and the right to choose who has dominion over our body, a doesn't demand we worship a counterfeit, satiric caricature of a supreme being who lives only in the heads of those who will manipulate for their own malevolent reasons.

Real Christians vote for real policy and will not permit conflation and confusion -- and especially threats -- deter us from what is right for all Americans.

Donald Trump has repeatedly called for violence against anyone he considers political enemies. He asked allowed why immigrants couldn't be shot down like dogs at the border. He asked to have peaceful protestors in Washington, DC, to be fired upon, and he suggested shooting petty criminals down in the street. He encouraged the racist thugs in Charlottesville and on 1/6 and has suggested members of the military who refuse illegal orders be executed.

He planned to initiate the 'Insurrection Act', put troops on the street and outlaw all protests, and install curfews and prevent interstate travel of citizens.

And now a new thug has taken up the cudgel of authoritarianism. Sen, Tom cotton, of Arkansas, has called for mob rule in the streets. With no regard for the civil rights of American citizens he has called for the beating, disfigurement, and murder of protestors.

This is the government the GOP will install if elected. They admit they will murder and maim for any perceived indiscretion, and no one will be spared the rod -- not even fellow Republicans -- if you are not MAGA you are the enemy.

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Aday after encouraging members of the public to “take matters into their own hands” to deal with peaceful protesters, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is doubling down on his endorsement of mob violence.

The Arkansas Republican shared a video on X on Tuesday morning of climate protesters who were blocking a road in France being grabbed and tossed on the side of the road by angry drivers. “How it should be done,” he captioned the video.

Cotton was apparently unfazed by backlash he received over comments made a day earlier, when he said protesters who blocked part of the Golden Gate Bridge would’ve been tossed off the bridge if it had happened in Arkansas.

“I encourage people who get stuck behind the pro-Hamas mobs blocking traffic: take matters into your own hands to get them out of the way. It’s time to put an end to this nonsense,” he wrote on X about protesters criticizing the U.S. response to the Israel-Hamas war.

Cotton, who famously penned an op-ed in 2020 calling for troops to be deployed to crush nationwide protests, also suggested in comments to Fox News that protesters blocking the road should have their hands “glued … to a car or the pavement,” noting that it’d be “probably pretty painful to have their skin ripped off.”

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough was among those to express disgust at Cotton’s comments, saying, “Here we have a guy, Tom Cotton, that went to Harvard, undergrad and law school, served in the military, who is talking about throwing people off the Golden Gate Bridge, ripping their skin off. We had a United States senator go on a network, national network, suggesting that Americans rip skin off of people’s hands because they’re aggravated and take matters into their own hands.”

While some commenters cheered Cotton’s latest endorsement of vigilante violence on, many others reminded him that what he’s pushing for is actually assault in the eyes of the law.

“Here’s a United States Senator, advocate of assault and battery. Nice Tom,” one person wrote.

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On Jan. 6th, the phones were hot and heavy with seditious conversations between some members of the House, some Republican Senators including Ron Johnson, and Steve Daines, and Josh Hawley as well as others, and Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of Staff.

The speculation is they were all involved with Trump in fomenting the insurrection; and we will soon know all the details now that the Supreme Court has ruled Mike Lindell's cell phone records can be divulged to the Department of Justice.

Representatives Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise and paul Gosar are but three House members directly in the FBIs crosshairs; but they are hardly alone. The FBI is particularly focused on Scott Perry, of Pa., whose phone they also have.

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The United States Supreme Court on Monday dealt a blow to Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a close ally to former President Donald Trump. The court declined to hear an appeal from Lindell, who has sought to block investigators from seizing his phone in a case surrounding alleged efforts to tamper with voting machines in Colorado around the time of the 2020 presidential election. Lindell has claimed the seizure of his phone constituted a violation of his Constitutional rights, a claim previously rejected by U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Ralph Erickson.

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Lindell has been a staunch supporter of Trump's unproven claims that widespread voter fraud was to blame for his loss in the 2020 election. He has said he spent $40 million on failed legal efforts to overturn the election results, leaving him with financial woes as some retailers have stopped carrying his pillow brand.

In September 2022, Lindell said FBI agents surrounded him at a Hardee's restaurant and demanded he turn over his phone. He said he was then further questioned by the FBI about Tina Peters, a Colorado clerk who has been indicted over allegations of tampering with election voting equipment and charged with breaching a voting security system. She was set to face trial in February, but that has been delayed, according to Colorado Public Radio.

Judge Erickson rejected Lindell's claims that the seizure violated his constitutional rights in September 2023.

"Lindell's irritation as to where and how the government took possession of his cell phone does not give rise to a constitutional claim, let alone a showing of a callous disregard for his constitutional rights," Erickson wrote. Lindell appealed that decision to the Supreme Court. His appeal raises questions of the alleged "weaponization of the judicial process in political combat," warning the decision would "serve as further confirmation in the view of many that justice in the United States is simply a function of the predilections and prejudices of the judiciary."

On Monday, however, the Supreme Court issued a list of cases to which it denied a writ of certiorari. That list included Lindell's case. The court typically does not offer explanation on cases it denies.

Lindell has also urged the Supreme Court to hear arguments in a separate case surrounding his concerns about election fraud. In March, he asked the Supreme Court to fast-track a lawsuit challenging the use of electronic tabulation systems in elections ahead of the November presidential race. He has said this case would bring "explosive" evidence" about the 2020 election in his filing that he believes will "shock the world," though the court has not yet said whether it will hear the case.

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No, non-US citizens cannot vote in presidential elections. To vote in a US presidential election, you must be a US citizen and meet the other requirements, such as being at least 18 years old and meeting any state-specific voter registration deadlines. Non-citizens, such as permanent residents (green card holders) or those on work or student visas, do not have the right to vote in federal elections, including presidential elections. Voting in US elections is a right reserved for US citizens.

Anyone who tells you non-citizens can vote in presidential election is lying to your face because they think you are stupid to know better, and they can lie with impunity.

It certainly seems as though whenever a proposal is made to do anything positive for the American people, the Republicans pull out all the stops to deny it.

Voting rights, home assistance, welfare, Medicare and Medicaid, Social Security (I could go on, and on), all have come under the restrictive thumb of the corporation-controlled GOP.

Face it, they just don't give a damn about the ordinary citizen and will do everything in their power to continue to make his life a struggle.

While President Biden fights a daily battle for the rights and dignity of the common man, he is challenged at every avenue by conscious less bureaucrats seeking only to line their pockets and the pockets of their masters.

Her is the latest example of their disregard for their constituency,

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Senate Republicans are preparing to go on the record in favor of gouging Americans with sky-high "junk fees," just months before a major presidential election where the economy will play a deciding role.

In a recent report in the American Prospect, reporter David Dayen delved into the GOP's response to a new rule from President Joe Biden's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) capping credit card junk fees at $8, helmed by Sen. Tim Scott (R-South Carolina). Scott — the Senate Banking Committee ranking member who is thought to be on the short list of potential running mates for former President Donald Trump — is leading the charge on a bill to scrap the rule. His one-page bill deems that the CFPB rule limiting junk fees "shall have no force or effect."

Lawful and contractually agreed upon payment incentives promote financial discipline and responsibility, and this rule shows that the CFPB is more focused on scoring political talking points than policies that protect consumers," Scott said in a statement posted to his website.

Scott's push to overhaul the Biden administration's limit on junk fees has the full support of the banking industry's top lobbyists and trade associations. Scott's statement noted that his bill was supported by the "Consumer Bankers Association, America’s Credit Unions, Independent Community Bankers of America, Bank Policy Institute, American Bankers Association, Americans for Tax Reform, Competitive Enterprise Institute and the US Chamber of Commerce."

Adam Green, a progressive activist who helped Biden organize events in the swing states of Michigan and Pennsylvania to highlight his opposition to junk fees, told Dayen that the GOP openly railing against junk fees is a gift to Democrats ahead of the November election.

We’ve seen Democratic unity on fighting surprise junk fees and naming corporate villains like credit card companies, banks, and airlines," Green said. "What’s been missing is opponents smoking themselves out and raising the volume of this fight so the public knows who is on their side."

Dayen further explained that because the US Senate is controlled by Democrats, Scott's bill is virtually guaranteed to fail passage. According to Dayen, all the "doomed vote" on the bill would accomplish is putting Republicans officially on the record in favor of jacking up excessive fees on Americans. He added that even 72% of self-identifying Republicans polled in December of 2023 were in favor of banning junk fees.

"If you can believe it, Senate Republicans are actually trying to increase credit card fees for Americans. Democrats will not allow this bill to become law," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York) tweeted.

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There is no question but that Biden won the election fair and square. The results have been litigated and re-litigated over and over again, and no discernable hint of foul play uncovered. In over eighty Courts across the country disbelievers, conspiracy theorists, and political opportunists have tried to make their case only to find themselves laughed out of these venues.

But Trump and his cabal of traitors refused to accept the will of the American people. In a scheme he concocted, one worthy of the efforts of the vilest despots, he pulled out all the stops and attempted to overthrow the legitimate government of the United States.

In one final gasp he called the acting Attorney General, Jeffry Rosen, into his office and demanded Rosen fabricate a lie and say the Justice Department believed there was some foul play and was about to open an investigation. "It doesn't matter if it's true", Trump has been quoted as saying, "just do it!'

The plan was to use this scheme as a reason to implement the 'Insurrection Act', impound the voting machines, and put the military on the streets to quell any legitimate protests. The ' Insurrection Act' gives complete power to the president, it can't be challenged, and not even the Congress or the judiciary can question its usage -- it would be the end of Democracy.

Trump also told Rosen if he refused to lie, he would be fired and replaced by the fawning lackey, Jeffrey Clarke, and Clarke would tell the lie.

Rosen went back to the Justice Department and discussed the issue with his subordinates. He returned to the White House and told Trump he wouldn't take part in this treasonous scheme, and if Trump fired him, he and the entire upper tier of the justice Department would resign along with about a half dozen of Trump's own white House lawyers.

(Right now, Clarke is facing disbarment for his involvement and soon will be tried with Trump and the cabal of co-conspirators later in the year).

The treasonous scheme was foiled by a band of dedicated government workers!

We all have our preferences, our petty prejudices, our political philosophies; the question is, what kind of American are you?

Why does it seem whenever Republican administrations have the opportunity to help the poor and disadvantaged, they (more than frequently) refuse to do so?
Whether it's a matter of how late schoolchildren can work on school nights, whether a ten-year-old child is refused an abortion after being raped, whether it's fair housing laws, equal opportunity or voting rights, why does MAGA always side with those who have too much over those who have too little.
They continually battle against the Affordable care Act which provides healthcare coverage for millions of poor Americans; battle against expanding Medicaid for the indigent: Constantly call for Social Security cuts and even for its demise after Five years; the same with Medicare; they oppose extension of unemployment insurance benefits in times of national emergency; battle against all forms of Welfare and always demand a reduction in Public School funding.
If they have their way America will become a festering cesspool of poverty with only the wealthy leading long healthy lives while the rest wither and endure early death.

See report below -- italics mine

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Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids. The announcement Wednesday, April 10, 2024, follows Reynolds’ decision not to participate in a separate federal program that gives $40 per month for three months to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids. It is an effort that advocates welcome, but some remained worried that it won’t be enough to alleviate the barriers to access that were addressed by a separate federal program — providing roughly $29 million to Iowa's low-income families — that the state rejected. The state is allocating $900,000 to schools and nonprofit organizations that participate in certain federal programs designed to serve summer meals and snacks in counties where at least 50% of children are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The state’s funding would be used to either open new sites or to supplement existing sites’ expenses like local food purchases or community outreach.
Meg Brink, a registered dietician who consults on school food programs across the state, said the nutrition standards associated with these federal programs offer vital meals — and lessons on healthy diets — for students.
“If there’s any opportunity to provide students with good meals, good nutritious meals,” she said, “that’s a win.”
Last summer, the two programs provided roughly 1.6 million meals and snacks to Iowa's youth, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Still, only about 22,000 kids were served, compared with the more than 362,000 kids who received free or reduced lunches in school. The announcement Wednesday follows Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds’ decision not to participate in a separate federal program that gives $40 per month for three months to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out.
More than 244,000 children were provided the pandemic summer EBT cards in 2023, according to the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services, amounting to over $29 million in federal funds.
Iowa is one of 14 states that turned down the federal money for a variety of philosophical and technical reasons.
States that participate in the federal program are required to cover half of the administrative costs, which would have cost an estimated $2.2 million in Iowa, the state said in its announcement last December," Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” Reynolds said at the time.
In a statement about the new funding, Reynolds said providing kids access to free, nutritious meals over the summer has “always been a priority” and that the expansion of “well-established programs” would "ensure Iowa’s youth have meals that are healthy and use local community farms and vendors when possible.”
Luke Elzinga, policy manager at the Des Moines Area Religious Council's food pantry network, said the additional funds for summer meal sites are a good thing. But he worried that it won’t be enough to dramatically increase the number of kids helped or solve access issues that plague some communities.
“Summer EBT was not meant to replace summer meal sites,” he said. “It’s meant to complement them and fill those gaps in service and meet those barriers so families that can’t access a summer meal site will be able to have at least some benefits during the summer to help support their family’s food needs.”
The new grants will prioritize applications that would establish new sites in counties with two or less open sites last year. They will also heavily factor in the distance from the nearest site. The terms stipulate that applicants must operate for a minimum of four weeks when school is out.
Still, Elzinga worried that daily visits to a meal site throughout the summer would continue to be a challenge for some families, such as when kids have working parents, live more than a few miles from a site or live near a site that opens for a fraction of the whole summer break.
Elzinga said it was “ironic” that the new grants for expanded summer meal sites are being funded by state allocations from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
It’s “pandemic-era money,” he said. “That is going to be used one time, this year, to expand summer meal sites. But what’s going to happen next year?”
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Maybe it was an attempt to imitate and ridicule Trump's garbled speech; maybe they thought it was pig Latin. Whatever it was it showed the ridiculous lengths religious zealots will resort to in an effort to display their piety, or at least their buffoonery.

Growling and grumping, gargling and guttural gurgling in a satanic effort to reach, who(?) -- Beelzebub(?) -- these red-eyed witch doctors didn't even have the decency to entertain us by wearing headdresses, shaking flowers, rattling beads, and doing a little dance. No, they attempted to make political points with shamanistic writhing's and slobbering chants because God told them this is the way to influence Arizona voters. Much like the Indians of old, they did their own version of a frenetic rain dance, but weren't smart enough to accompany it with a language known to mankind.

Folks, these are todays Republican legislators who will drive us all back to the jungles of ignorance and superstition idolatry and unwarranted fears and terrors, and will control our lives right down to the point where we have to make believe we understand the meaning of their oral flatulence.

Given the opportunity these MAGA cretins will control who you worship, dictate who is fit to cast a ballot, rule over your healthcare, and invade your personal space so much as to deny your right to abortion or even contraception.

Jesus Christ!

Get a load of this -- italics mine.

WATCH: Republican lawmaker invites prayer group to speak in tongues at Arizona Capitol

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A group led by Phoenix Sen. Anthony Kern prays over the state seal on the floor of the Arizona Senate.

By Camaron Stevenson

April 9, 2024

State Sen. Anthony Kern escorted a religious group to the senate floor Monday morning and led them in prayer, where he asked for divine intervention in legislative matters as those around him spoke in tongues.

“Let is be so, father God,” Kern said. “Lord right now we ask thee to release the presence of the lord in the senate chamber.”

While prayer is allowed in government buildings, it cannot be sponsored or endorsed by the government or its representatives. Kern’s involvement in the prayer itself, along with allowing the group to pray over the state seal, could be considered a violation of the First Amendment.

The incident comes one week after Republican legislators passed a bill giving the 10 Commandments preferential treatment over other religious texts in public schools, and a month after they failed to pass Queen Creek Sen. Jake Hoffman’s bill to ban one religion’s sacred imagery from public spaces.

While Hoffman’s bill was killed by Republican Sen. Ken Bennett siding with Democrats in voting against it, Kern’s 10 Commandment bill was approved by both chambers of the Republican-controlled legislature.

Neither senator shows any sign of stopping these First Amendment violations, and has expressed support for the total ban on abortion, citing religion as a motivator in blocking access to reproductive healthcare.

The only people nuttier than the religious whacko, Pastor Matt Baker of the Trinity Christian Academy in Palm Beach County, Florida, is anyone who was dumb enough to hire this Jackass, or be a member of his congregation in the first place.

What kind of pathetic Bible thumper, what kind of sackcloth and ashes wearing crackpot, what sort of bleeding knee Bozo is so in need of so-called 'Spiritual Salvation' they would sacrifice the health of their children and fall prostrate in front of this charlatan; at least a witch doctor does a dance for your benefit.

You wouldn't allow a person with a gun to approach your 'church', you wouldn't allow a convicted pederast in your doors, and you wouldn't allow a Jew , Muslim, or Trans into your home, yet this drooling, red-eyed spewer of goofy tales -- this modern day seller of indulgences and other quackery -- had your respect and devotion?

And now you feel betrayed by his lunacy?

You screamed '*Amen' brother'*to his hate-filled sermoms, didn't you?

Hell, he's a recognized pastor, isn't he? Didn't you believe he was sent by Jesus Christ and his dad, God, to save your immortal soul from being deep fried in the BBQ pits of hell. Think maybe now you made a mistake? But what if this fraud is right, maybe God hates autistic children and Liberals and you were being duped right along.

Well, say two Hail Marrys and give the finger to some Queers and it'll all work out in the end.

I understand Atheists are looking for converts, at least you won't be encouraged to hate other people and you can look in a mirror and not see a hypocrite looking back.

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By: Stephanie Susskind Posted at 6:05 PM, Apr 05, 2024 and last updated 6:18 PM, Apr 05, 2024

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — A time that is meant to bring awareness about those who are on the autism spectrum was canceled at a private school in Palm Beach County, leaving some parents heartbroken and full of questions.

An email from the lead pastor at Trinity Christian Academy on Military Trail near Lake Worth described recognizing Autism Awareness Week as "demonic."

Several parents sent copies of the email to WPTV this week, outraged at the way lead Pastor Matt Baker described the decision not to honor autism awareness.

Andrea Gallik is a mother of two children, a 9-year-old daughter and a 6-year-old son, who attend Trinity Christian Academy.

Andrea Gallik has two children who attend Trinity Christian Academy, including a son who has Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Her son Miles was recently diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in November. Still fresh in their journey with ASD, she was blown away by the words Baker used in his message to the school community.

In his email, the pastor wrote the following:

"The word 'Christian' means 'Like Christ,' and it was given to the followers of Christ because they acted just like Jesus. Remember those bracelets from the 2000s that asked, 'WWJD?' If Jesus Christ led Trinity, would HE have an Autism Awareness Week? Of course not! Why? Because anything that exalts itself above the name of Christ should be brought down. Also, anything that teaches our children to have their identity in anything other than Christ is idolatry and demonic. Let me repeat myself just so I am not quoted out of context: any philosophy, teaching, or program that teaches our precious children that their identity is found in anything other than Christ is idolatry and demonic. Period. The world, in its rejection and hatred of Christ, often devises programs such as 'Autism Awareness' (and cultural figures like the Easter Bunny and Santa Clause, etc.) to get the benefits of His teachings (compassion, kindness, feeling love, and self-worth) without acknowledging Jesus as the ultimate authority and the source of all life. These initiatives imply that Jesus alone is insufficient, and we fail to recognize just how deeply they have permeated into our daily lives as Christians. As a result, we have 'a form of godliness but deny its power (2 Timothy 3:5).'"

Gallick said she was left in tears, and she'll be pulling her kids out of the school.

"The email comes, and I feel like my heart stops beating because not once but twice he says that wearing this title of autism is demonic. And my mouth was on the floor," Gallick said. "I'm offended as a Christian because I feel that he is using the Bible for his own interpretation. And his interpretation is offensive. Not just to my son but to any child, adult afflicted with autism. Breaks my heart. It breaks my heart."

She said she feels the pastor's message represents a lack of understanding. Gallik doesn't want others to see those in the autism community in the way he described.

"He (Miles) is a beautiful boy with a spirit, a healthy happy spirit. He doesn't even look at autism as something bad. He's happy," Gallik said. "To think that I send my child somewhere where they use such hateful language, that just breaks my heart as a mom."

She described the activities that were planned for the week.

"We were supposed to have 'wear blue' for World Autism Day. We were going do tie dye for celebrate neurodiversity, all fun things that just would have had kids learning a little bit more about autism and how to speak and act with their friends who have it," Gallik said. "Miles has started saying he doesn't belong in his class, and I just tell him that God made him perfectly. And this was a plan all along, and we just have to walk in it and know he's a smart boy and everyone who meets him loves him."

Gallick added that the staff at the school has been wonderful during the five years their family has been attending there.

WPTV has also confirmed a teacher's aide was fired this week after she said she posted the pastor's email on social media. She said the reason she was given was a "hostile work history."

He was not able to meet with us in person but provided the response below:

We have recently been going through our school calendar and canceling and reframing activities and events to align with our Christian Worldview. Christmas and Easter activities have also been significantly revised to align with scriptural messages of the birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We also determined last year no longer to engage in a week of “Autism Awareness,” which was separate from and in addition to the educational programs available at the school for students with unique educational needs. Despite the administrative decision, some teachers decided to promote and run with the initiative this year, even after it was canceled.

My email recently (attached) clarified for our community that the teachings of Christ are more than sufficient for ministering to all our precious children and that there were moral aspects of this initiative that were diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ.

Trinity Christian Academy welcomes all the children whose guardians seek a Biblically-centered, academically excellent primary and secondary education. We support individualized education plans for children with unique needs at the school, and we have on staff at the school and our church caring believers in Jesus with the requisite licensure, training and expertise in assisting children with special needs. The Bible says in Ephesians 5 that we minister to others according to their needs, and we obey the Word of the Lord to do so, always keeping Christ at the head and center of our education programs.

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