There was a time when this sort of stuff would have been the undoing of any politician. But that time is long past. Here is a glimpse of what makes up the movers and shakers of the Authoritarian Party (formerly the Republican Party):
Rep. Lauren Boebert’s neighbors in dispute with Boebert’s armed husband and teen son…
The Boebert family makes news by terrorizing their neighbors. A neighbor called 911 to report Boebert’s son racing his car through a residential neighborhood. Boebert’s husband gets involved and things escalate. “It’s the Boeberts, if you know who the Boeberts are,” the 911 caller declared. “I need the sheriff out here.”
Husband Jayson Boebert reportedly has a long rap sheet, including being arrested in 2004 to pleading guilty to public indecency charges after exposing himself to two minors in a bowling alley. The congresswoman, who was not named as being involved in the incident, also has a history of minor arrests, including dust-ups with cops. She is running for a second term this year.
https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/911-calls-reveal-rep-boeberts-neighbors-fight-with-husband/
The ‘QAnon Queen’ Told Her Followers to Arrest Cops. It Didn’t Go Well…
As Vice News reports, Romana Didulo, a so-called “Queen of QAnon” rallied her followers to storm the Peterborough Ontario Police Department and perform “citizen’s arrests” on members of the department. As you might imagine, it didn’t quite go as planned. According to Vice News, “The group wears matching white uniforms and drives Didulo around from city to city where she hosts meet-and-greets with her followers in parking lots. Didulo has also advised her followers to stop paying their utility bills—because she decreed they were now free—and many of her followers are getting their power and water shut off. As they beg their queen for help, she ignores them.”
Arizona’s GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Extolls Trump’s and DeSantis’s Key Virtue: “Big Dick Energy”
Yes, you read that correctly, Arizona Authoritarian Party gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake “gleefully vows to blow stuff up at the border… wants to put her opponent, Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, in jail for non-existent election fraud. She also want to imprison Anthony Fauci for, well, something. This is a candidate who complains to the media that they won’t cover her stands on issues … during a press conference packed with reporters there to cover her stand on an issue.” Lake is all-in for Trump, regardless of where that leads her campaign for governor. Democrats are likely tickled pink that Lake is taking her campaign to new lows.
As Laurie Roberts of the Arizona Republic puts it, “Kari Lake embraced her inner trailer trash on Sunday as she extolled the, um, virtues of her political heroes, both old and new.”
Enough Crazy Town — Here’s why “Leaving with nuclear secrets would be Trump’s dumbest, scariest stunt yet”…
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin offers an incredibly comprehensive and well-organized take on what could rival or exceed Trump’s most reckless moves to-date (which is saying something). “A defeated former president who was at the center of a failed coup allegedly walks out the door with nuclear secrets, refuses to give them back and then leaves a creepy, semi-threatening message for the attorney general — that’s apparently where we are.” Rubin provides a well-organized list of fact-based reasons that no sane person could ignore. Which likely means the Authoritarian party (formerly the Republican Party), which has super-glued itself to Trump’s anus, is probably not listening.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/15/trump-secret-documents-dumbest-stunt/?