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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

The Candidate Caught in a Nazi Porn Scandal Is Today’s GOP Personified
"The perv-fascist solidarity in Trump’s Washington has come to seem like the #MeToo movement in reverse. Lechy newcomers get to burst onto the scene at Butterworth’s—'me too, guys!'”
Gross:
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But you can’t keep this sordid story down. Last week, with early voting well underway in the November 4 election, American Journal News revealed that, on the same porny Tumblr blog, JRDeux didn’t just serve up lewdery. He boosted a user who brandished swastikas. (See: “Republican Candidate in Virginia Caught in Nazi Porn Scandal.”) Back in 2015, JRDeux also shared an image of a male college student posted by a user who self-described with a racial slur and sought the company of “superior white men.” Turns out Reid’s alleged Tumblr clique was devoted to the eroticization of slavery and “overt Nazi fetishism.”

“No one’s ever seen a candidate like me in Virginia and quite frankly most places across the country,” Reid boasted not long ago to a Charlottesville media outlet. He’d be right—except that, for those keeping count at home, Reid is the second Republican to be engulfed in a Nazi porn scandal in just over a year.

So that’s all deeply bleak. But what’s weirdest about Reid is not his weirdness. It’s how MAGA-typical his whole career is. Billing himself as an “American Patriot, Reagan Conservative, Virginia Gentleman,” Reid has a personal story that doubles as the spiritual journey of four decades of GOP putrefaction. Reid has Zelig-ed his way through just about every stage in the GOP’s metamorphosis from anti-fascist family-value conservatism to its current incarnation as the profa (as opposed to antifa) party of pervs.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

“Joe Biden was criticized for a Chinese balloon flying over our airspace,” wrote GOP consultant Mike Madrid. “They’re giving Qatar an entire f’ing air base.”
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MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Giving Qatar a Military Base in U.S.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that Qatar would build an Air Force base in Idaho.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5h

Is Kid Rock ok? He's looking like an ad for a place called Thrifty Dialysis

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 6h

There are very few stores left in Portland that aren't made of wood. FYI

Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 7h

Every word he says here is a lie. Every. Single. Word. He’s living in an alternate reality. #25thAmendment.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 5h

It’s a free country.

Right?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 5h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson Blames Shutdown on “No Kings” Protest in Absurd Rant
The House speaker is blaming the Republican-led government shutdown on Americans protesting Donald Trump
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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

Will SOMEBODY please win?
IDGAF which team.
Will SOMEBODY please win?

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

"The election is on November 4"
Please, Virginia, vote for sanity--not this lunatic:
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GOP Candidate: It’s Not Discrimination to Fire Someone for Being Gay

Virginia Lieutenant Governor Winsome Earle-Sears had a truly wild debate performance.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

"congressional Republicans would rather scratch Trump’s back than chip away at their actual jobs, which includes urgent work such as ending the government shutdown, passing appropriation bills, and swearing in Democratic Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva:"
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GOP Rep Reveals Nonsensical Revenge Plan After Trump Loses Nobel Prize

Representative Buddy Carter is furious that Donald Trump didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

California Representative Jay Obernolte warned that staying home would make it seem like Republicans were “prioritizing politics over government.”
...there's a reason for that, Jay, & it's because MAGA Republicans *do* prioritize politics over government:
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Three More GOP Reps Split From Mike Johnson Over Shutdown

The House speaker is losing control of his party.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

Lindsey Halligan "is a deeply unqualified pawn whose only mission is to head these obviously politicized legal attacks on people Trump doesn’t like. She had literally never prosecuted anyone before Comey, and has most of her experience in insurance cases:"
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Trump Attorney Makes Embarrassing Error in Letitia James Indictment

Lindsey Halligan is out of her depth, but she’s carrying out Trump’s revenge crusade anyway.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

I for one will not be silenced by the Trump/MAGA thought police
See you at No Kings!
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Republican Rep Claims Everyone at “No Kings” Protest Is a Terrorist

This is how the Republicans begin to dismantle the First Amendment.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

"Miller’s use of the first person is alarming here, suggesting that he—an unelected deputy chief of staff—has either the complete authority or an outsize influence on the administration’s most authoritarian decisions:"
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Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.

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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 1h

I just had someone try to tell me since we train foreign military on our shores quite often it's not a big deal to have a foreign country's air base here. To which I reply bullshit. The foreign military who train here are not from terrorists supporting nations. until now.

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

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White House Flips Out After Trump Loses Nobel Peace Prize

Donald Trump didn’t win the peace prize he so desperately wanted.

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Oana Lungescu @oanalungescu.bsky.social · 18h

An inspiring choice for the Nobel Peace Prize!

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 5h

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

Former Rep. Conor Lamb, who is basically running a 3-year primary campaign against Fetterman: “Last night Fetterman voted to allow Trump to execute people at sea, today he wants to give him a Nobel Prize. Just no core principles.”
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Go @conorlambpa.bsky.social go!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. MAGA meltdown over Trump’s Nobel snub, Qatar air base in Idaho, China trade war escalates bigly, House GOP calls No Kings protests terrorism, and that’s only about 10% of the madness today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. 10/10/25

… Pete Hegseth announced that the Qatari Air Force will now have a base in Idaho and their military fighter pilots will be training over the US: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of ac...

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 1h

We now have cops investigating people for peacefully expressing their opinions
Thanks Trump
Thanks MAGA
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FL Times-Union: “Of all reasons to open the door, she didn’t expect two armed police officers. They were looking, it turns out, for her husband James. It was all over a postcard that said only, ‘YOU LACK VALUES,’ in the ink of a large black marker. The recipient? FL CFO Blaise Ingoglia. The 77-year-old O’Gara said he buys hundreds of blank postcards from Amazon and mails them out to officials expressing his opinions.”

… “After speaking on his front step with the officers for about 5 minutes, he came back inside and told his wife what happened: Two officers came to ask him whether he had sent a postcard to Ingoglia. He said he did and told them he was just exercising his First Amendment rights. At some point during their chat, he said he realized the officers’ appearance ‘was just intimidation. This was purely simple, nothing else, but intimidation.’”

… “The O’Garas said they frequently speak out against the Trump admin, and that they have a ‘No Kings’ sign in their lawn, since Catherine organized a protest in Largo following national No Kings protests against Trump.”

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks, tech bros:

Dean Ball, Foundation for American Innovation: “This is a very big deal. China has asserted sweeping control over the entire global semiconductor supply chain, putting export license requirements on all rare earths used to manufacture advanced chips. If enforced aggressively, this policy could mean ‘lights out’ for the US AI boom, and likely lead to a recession/economic crisis in the US in the short term.”

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

Macho Man Pete Hegseth:

Daily Mail: “He’s already installed a makeup studio complete with lights and a director’s chair at the Pentagon, and now Pete Hegseth has kicked his beauty routine up a notch – by getting Botox. The Defense Secretary underwent a round of cosmetic injections last month and has been since seen with noticeably smoother skin and visibly diminished wrinkles.”

… An insider: “It’s all an ego play for Pete. He’s always been full of himself but lately his ego is off the charts. Now that’s he’s Secretary of War his sense of self-importance has gone to his head – along with his vanity. And even though he strutted about the stage like a peacock when he gave his insulting lecture to the military brass, he still doesn’t garner respect. He made a minor speech to important people, and he was still upstaged by Trump.”

… “When asked for comment, the Department of War did not directly address whether Hegseth had had Botox treatment and instead attacked the Daily Mail for writing an article about it.”

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

ICYMI...that crap about ILL EAGLES!!! is just an excuse to take away health care from hard-working Americans in order to shovel yet more handouts to billionaires

Republicans made it clear today that their talking point about the shutdown being about “free health care for illegals” was bs all along. What it is really about is defunding the ACA. Bloomberg: “Steve Scalise takes hard line against extending ACA subsidies. Calls Obamacare a ‘sink hole’. Says answer is association health plans and HSA accounts. Majority leader says 90% of House GOP feels same way.”

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

Hakeem Jeffries: “Donald Trump’s strategy during this govt shutdown that he has created has been to play golf and issue deep fake videos. Mike Johnson’s strategy is to keep House Republicans on vacation.”
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Republicans milk the American people
Democrats work for the American people

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. MAGA meltdown over Trump’s Nobel snub, Qatar air base in Idaho, China trade war escalates bigly, House GOP calls No Kings protests terrorism, and that’s only about 10% of the madness today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. 10/10/25

… Pete Hegseth announced that the Qatari Air Force will now have a base in Idaho and their military fighter pilots will be training over the US: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of ac...

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

The MAGA wingnuts are losing it over #NoKings
Clearly we are striking a nerve
They know they are on the wrong side of history
October 18 cannot come quickly enough!

The House Republican theme of the day was to claim that Chuck Schumer wants to keep the govt shutdown going to amplify the No Kings protests scheduled for Oct 18, and also claimed that the protests are acts of terrorism. Mike Johnson on Fox: “It’s being told to us they can’t reopen the govt until after that rally, because they can’t face their rabid base!”

… Johnson: “They have a Hate America rally scheduled for Oct. 18 on the National Mall. Pro-Hamas, Antifa people, they’re all coming out. House Democrats selling T-shirts for the event. I have HAD it with these people. They’re playing games with real people’s lives. We’re so angry about it. I mean, I’m a very patient guy, but I’ve had it with these people.”

… Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman: “Johnson was quite angry today. Banging the lectern. visibly frustrated with the state of play.”

… GOP Whip Tom Emmer: “This is about one thing and one thing alone - to score political points with the terrorist wing of their party, which is set to hold a hate America rally in DC next week.”

… Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS): “October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We’ll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful, but I doubt it.”

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AFinRenoFightsBack 🌮 ❌👑 @callyson.bsky.social · 2h

"I remember MAGA absolutely melting down over a Chinese air balloon going over the US like WW3 was about to start any day because of Biden. Now Qatari jets flying over our country is apparently America First. I’m sure this has nothing to do with Qatar giving Trump a jet or doing a business deal"
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. MAGA meltdown over Trump’s Nobel snub, Qatar air base in Idaho, China trade war escalates bigly, House GOP calls No Kings protests terrorism, and that’s only about 10% of the madness today. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 226. 10/10/25

… Pete Hegseth announced that the Qatari Air Force will now have a base in Idaho and their military fighter pilots will be training over the US: “I’m also proud that today we’re signing a letter of ac...

open.substack.com

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