It Seems Like The More You Spew Hate…

… The better you do in the Republican party.

Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has called for banning Islam in America and said LGBTQ people 'lead with their sexual preference'
Insider
By Bryan Metzger
May 12, 2022


Kathy Barnette, a largely-unknown Pennsylvania Senate candidate, has been surging in support among Republican voters in recent polls with just days to go until next Tuesday's primary election.

But a review of the conservative commentator's public statements, including on social media, reveals a candidate with a history of Islamophobic and homophobic positions that may imperil Republicans' general election chances in the race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Pat Toomey.

Over the last several years, Barnette has called for the banning of Islam in America, falsely claimed that former President Barack Obama is Muslim, voiced support for a business owner who posted a "No Gays Allowed" sign in his front window, and declared that "homosexuals LEAD with their sexual preference" and should "leave [the] immorality in the bedroom."

And the conservatives are eating it up!

Let me count the ways this all is against the Constitution… but the Republicans don’t let a little thing like the Constitution stop their hate.

She is so far to the right that even the MAGA chief guru is against her,

Highlighting the angst Barnette has caused among the GOP, former President Donald Trump criticized Barnette's candidacy in a Thursday afternoon statement. 

Are the electorate getting tied of all this negativity?

But as Insider's Jake Lahut recently reported from a Trump rally near Pittsburgh, there are signs that Republican voters in Pennsylvania have grown weary of the barrage of primary ads on the local airwaves and are not taking Trump's cues when it comes to supporting Oz.

Oz was even met with boos upon his introduction at the rally. But Barnette could bring an even greater world of headaches to the GOP.

You know I suspect that Connecticut voters are also getting tired of the excessive barrage of ads from the billionaire gubernatorial Republican candidate and it seems like that it is the same garbage from the last election… promising the world but never says how he is going to do it, just pie in the sky promises.

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Meanwhile down in Louisiana they are not content to going after trans children now they are after all of us.

In 'unprecedented' move, Louisiana lawmakers revive anti-LGBTQ school bill
A Republican legislator invoked a rare procedural tool to override a committee's decision to kill the measure.
NBC News
By Matt Lavietes
May 12, 2022


The Louisiana House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to revive a bill that would prohibit "topics of sexual orientation or gender identity in any classroom discussion or instruction in kindergarten through grade eight."

The legislation, which critics have dubbed the state's "Don't Say Gay" bill, had been been killed last week in a House education committee bipartisan 7-4 vote.

But on Tuesday, Republican Rep. Raymond Crews used a rare legislative procedural tool, “Committee of the Whole,” which allowed for a full House vote to advance or deny the education committee's decision. The House then voted 55-39 to resurrect the measure.

It is like we’ll see Florida and raise you, making it to the eight grade instead of third grade.

Officially titled the Parental Rights in Education law, the country's first so-called "Don't Say Gay" bill originated in Florida earlier this year and was signed into law in March. The measure bans teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity “in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards." It will take effect on July 1.

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Louisiana's measure goes further than the Florida law: It also forbids public school employees from discussing their "own sexual orientation or gender identity with students in kindergarten through grade twelve."

So it is like Louisiana legislators never heard of the First Amendment!

Their hate knows no bounds.