Nasleep stropoppenverkiezingen #107 A broken record of lies

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Op woensdag 13 april 2022 22:15 schreef miss_sly het volgende:

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Ik denk dat de term seksuele voorlichting vee te kort door de bocht is. En dat seksuele ontwikkeling vanaf heel jong, dreumesleeftijd, al plaatsvindt. Maar ik vind openheid over seks en alles wat daarbij hoort ook geen slecht ding.

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Op woensdag 13 april 2022 15:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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As the election approached, he said, he fully believed that if Donald J. Trump ended up losing, it would only be because the voting had been rigged, as the president had been warning publicly for months. Even after Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declared the winner, Mr. Thompson could not accept that it was true.

All of this, he told a jury at his criminal trial on Wednesday, led him to Washington on Jan. 6 for a Stop the Steal rally, where he and a friend listened to Mr. Trump give an incendiary speech near the White House.

In an hour on the witness stand, Mr. Thompson blamed Mr. Trump for what eventually occurred, saying that he had been answering the president’s call to go to the Capitol and “fight like hell” when he joined the throng swarming into the building and made off with a bottle of bourbon and a coat rack.

“If the president’s giving you almost an order to do something,” he said, “I felt obligated to do that.”

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Before Mr. Thompson offered his account, his wife, Sarah Thompson, took the stand.

Mrs. Thompson, who works in the corporate offices of Victoria's Secret, told the jury that she was a Democrat who had voted for Mr. Biden and never believed the "conspiracy theory-type" material she increasingly saw her husband looking at on YouTube, Twitter and various other websites.

Still, she said it had been "a rough year" for the couple, who were married in January 2020 after 12 years of dating. She told the jury that Mr. Thompson's anger about the election appeared to have grown worse because he was stuck at home without a job.

"Dustin spent a lot of time on the internet," she said.

When he went off to Washington on Jan. 5, she said, driving with a friend, Mrs. Thompson did not think that her husband would get into trouble. She was happy, as she put it, to be at home with the "house quiet."

But on the evening of the riot, Mr. Thompson texted her a video of himself, milling about with others in the looted parliamentarian's office. The room was littered with paperwork and overturned furniture.

Her response to him was simple and direct.

"I will not post bail," she texted back.

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In a bitterly divided Congress, it was a rare measure that had been expected to sail through without a fight.

A bill to name a federal courthouse in Tallahassee after Justice Joseph W. Hatchett, the first Black man to serve on the Florida Supreme Court -- sponsored by the state's two Republican senators and backed unanimously by its 27 House members -- was set to pass the House last month and become law with broad bipartisan support.

But in a last-minute flurry, Republicans abruptly pulled their backing with no explanation and ultimately killed the measure, leaving its fate unclear, many of its champions livid and some of its newfound opponents professing ignorance about what had happened.

Asked what made him vote against a measure that he had co-sponsored, Representative Vern Buchanan, Republican of Florida, was brief and blunt: "I don't know," he said.

The real answer is as much an allegory about the state of House Republicans in 2022 as it is about a federal building in Florida. With little notice and nothing more than a 23-year-old news clipping, a right-wing, first-term congressman mounted an 11th-hour effort on the House floor to persuade his colleagues that Judge Hatchett, a trailblazing judge who broke barriers as the first Black State Supreme Court justice south of the Mason-Dixon line, was undeserving of being honored.

The objector was Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia. Shortly before the House vote, he began circulating an Associated Press article from 1999 about an appeals court decision that Judge Hatchett wrote that year that struck down a public school policy allowing student-approved prayers at graduation ceremonies in Florida. The decision, which overruled a lower court, held that the policy violated constitutional protections of freedom of religion.

"He voted against student-led school prayer in Duval County in 1999," Mr. Clyde, a deacon at his Baptist church in Bogart, Ga., said in an interview. "I don't agree with that. That's it. I just let the Republicans know that information on the House floor. I have no idea if they knew that or not."

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