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Raskin: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Is the GOP Guidebook for Trump Second Term
Breitbart ^ | 06/09/2024 | Pam Key

Posted on 06/09/2024 9:07:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Velshi ” that “The Handmaid’s Tale” was the guidebook for Republicans if former President Donald Trump won the November election.

Raskin said, “I like to think about the Sharpie in the hurricane, when Donald Trump tried to override and in some sense did override the scientists at NOAA and the National Weather Service saying that hurricane will hit Alabama causing mass chaos in places where the hurricane was going to hit and in Alabama where it was not going to hit. That is what they wanted to do to the federal government, they want to override professional expertise and the protections of the civil service. They want to create something called Schedule F and take tens of thousands of jobs that are now protected in the professional civil service, to put them directly under the president, to appoint political flunkies and sycophants.”

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: guidebook; handmaidstale; indeedy; raskin; trump
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Project much douchebag? 🙄
1 posted on 06/09/2024 9:07:59 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Women get it.

It’s a big reason why Deep State has to steal elections.


2 posted on 06/09/2024 9:09:30 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Handmaids Tale is evocative of Islamic nations. We aren’t Islamic.


3 posted on 06/09/2024 9:10:51 AM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Boring. Book is written to a 4th grade level and nobody ever saw the show.


4 posted on 06/09/2024 9:12:00 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Brandon's pronouns: Xi/Hur)
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Hand maid’s tale is such a weird thing for liberals to be obsessed about


5 posted on 06/09/2024 9:12:36 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hilarious, that book is super old and it is also pretty stupid.

Yep, the left has to steal elections because all they have is to scare stupid people. They have nothing uplifting or positive to sell because their agenda is anti American and people hating. Even their voters have figured out that they are also a bunch of warmongers that plan on sending them into stupid wars they start.

Cheating is their only option.


6 posted on 06/09/2024 9:15:08 AM PDT by dforest ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

7 posted on 06/09/2024 9:15:17 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: escapefromboston

Indeed. It’s been “a thing” for them for a long time and it makes zero sense. It’s Islamic, not Western. It’s about “control” and that’s a Leftist ideal. Conservatives respect women as women far more than the Left or the Third World does. The whole “Handmaid’s Tail” concern is crazy gaslighting.


8 posted on 06/09/2024 9:16:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How very original. Your grandma...


9 posted on 06/09/2024 9:16:20 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: ChicagoConservative27

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/image/SumnerCaning.htm


10 posted on 06/09/2024 9:16:51 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Women love The Handmaid's Tale because they secretly fantasize about it.

Yet in modern America, women are hired to become breeding factories for gay men and 45+ year old celebrities.

11 posted on 06/09/2024 9:17:10 AM PDT by Drew68
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To: ChicagoConservative27
ratskin must be worried the cheat won't work this time.
12 posted on 06/09/2024 9:17:15 AM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Remember when Pelosi led all the democrat women in congress as they all dressed in Handmaid’s Tale garb, for one of PDJT’s SOTU addresses?


13 posted on 06/09/2024 9:18:39 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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How Trump’s 2020 Michigan ‘giant scams’ claims actually proved true — sort of
Trump was right to be on the lookout for 2020 election fraud in Michigan.

May 26, 2022, By Dean Obeidallah, MSNBC Columnist

Donald Trump was right. I never thought I’d write those words, but he did warn us that there was a “giant scam” in Michigan involving the state’s election. Of course, Trump made that claim about the 2020 presidential election in the state, where he lost by over 150,000 votes.

The bureau said the fraud was so widespread that after it struck the invalid signatures, five of the 10 candidates were lacking the requisite 15,000 valid signatures needed to remain on the ballot.

While that assertion was false — per numerous audits, lawsuits and a 55-page report the Republican-led Michigan Senate released in 2021 debunking each of Trump’s election lies — there is actually a significant election scandal in the state. But it involves the 2022 election for governor and Republicans, including some who have peddled Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. Ah, karma.

To get on this year’s ballot for governor in Michigan, state law required candidates to collect at least 15,000 signatures from registered voters and submit them by the April 19 deadline. Securing that many valid signatures in a state of over 8 million registered voters shouldn’t be that hard. That is, apparently unless you are one of the 10 Republican candidates running to take on Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

The state’s Bureau of Elections, which reviews the submitted petitions to ensure the signatures are valid, said after examining the petitions of the GOP gubernatorial candidates that it found a “volume of fraudulent petition sheets” that it had never seen before. The bureau said the fraud was so widespread that after it struck the invalid signatures, five of the 10 candidates were lacking the requisite 15,000 valid signatures needed to remain on the ballot. This included the two front-runners: former Detroit Police Chief James Craig and businessman Perry Johnson. In Craig’s case, the bureau reported that his campaign submitted over 21,000 signatures, but more than 11,000 were invalid, leaving him with just 10,192 “facially valid” signatures, well below the requirement.

Election deniers who say Trump won in 2020 now running for attorney general in key states.

Part of what made the bureau suspicious, as detailed in its report, was some petition sheets not showing evidence of “normal wear” that would be found if a person carries a petition around for hours or even days to gather signatures. It also said some petitions appeared to be “round-tabled,” meaning people took turns signing lines on the petitions in an attempt to make the signatures appear authentic. Plus, it said it found the petitions included fake signatures of many dead voters. Looks like Trump was right again, this time about dead people getting involved in elections.

Election experts, including two at the University of Michigan, have explained that in the past, campaigns relied on volunteers to gather signatures. In recent years, however, more campaigns have hired commercial firms that pay people by the signatures they collect, work often done with little supervision. Still, in most cases, valid petitions are submitted. That wasn’t the case this time.

Why didn’t the campaigns double check the petitions before submitting them to the state?

The Michigan Bureau of Elections is not alleging that the candidates knew their petitions contained fraudulent signatures. But why didn’t the campaigns double check the petitions before submitting them to the state? As Lansing attorney John Pirich, an election law expert who has worked for both Republican and Democratic candidates, told the Detroit Free Press, “You don’t have to be a handwriting expert to look at many, many of these signatures to see that they’re almost virtually identical.”

You would’ve thought that at least Johnson, who claimed at a debate this month that Trump legitimately won in 2020, would have reviewed the petitions in detail before submitting them, especially given that he recently stated that he views “voter integrity as one of the single most important issues in the state.” Johnson is a big Trump loyalist who has run a campaign ad in which he vows to “hold Detroit accountable” when it comes to future elections. It’s a transparent play on Trump’s lie that there was voter fraud in Detroit during the 2020 election.

In response to the news that he may be dumped from the ballot, Johnson made a statement that implied he was taken advantage of by “criminals.” Another Republican of the five identified by the bureau, Michigan State Police Capt. Michael Brown, dropped out of the race, saying he “cannot and will not be associated with this activity.”


Dean Obeidallah, a lawyer, hosts “The Dean Obeidallah Show” on SiriusXM radio’s Progress channel. He has written for The Daily Beast, CNN.com and other publications and is a co-creator of the annual New York Arab-American Comedy Festival.


14 posted on 06/09/2024 9:18:56 AM PDT by Liz (This then is how we should pray: Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name . )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What has he to back that up? Nothing! Call him a liar to his face.


15 posted on 06/09/2024 9:19:43 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’ve never watched “The Handmaid’s Tale”

Is it the simplistic, woke, emotive, fantastical white-karen fear-porn that I imagine it to be?

Democrats certainly love to spin political themes around it.


16 posted on 06/09/2024 9:21:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: ChicagoConservative27

That’s what they said the first time Trump was in office.


17 posted on 06/09/2024 9:22:44 AM PDT by Tell It Right (Galatians 6:14 -- May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ...)
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To: HYPOCRACY
Book is written to a 4th grade level and nobody ever saw the show.

Nobody?

“Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 4 Opens Big in Nielsen Streaming Rankings The drama delivers the biggest numbers for Hulu in the nine months the ratings service has been releasing weekly top 10s.” https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/handmaids-tale-season-4-premiere-nielsen-streaming-1234960260/

18 posted on 06/09/2024 9:28:15 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: ClearCase_guy

crazy gaslighting.

Describes the entire Democrat Karen playbook.


19 posted on 06/09/2024 9:29:47 AM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Raskin’s mother never had any kids that weren’t severely brain damaged. Just the way the New Marxist Party likes them.


20 posted on 06/09/2024 9:32:46 AM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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