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Ron Roberts ranked as a top-50 defensive coordinator in college football Lance Dawe 2–3 minutes Roberts ranks inside the top-50 of college football defensive coordinators. Auburn brought in new defensive coordinator Ron Roberts to help the Tigers with two things. Stopping the run and creating turnovers. Those are the two things Roberts' 4-2-5 defense have been known to do, and during his time at Baylor his units proved to be excellent at it. He now steps in at Auburn and will look to solve a variety of problems for the Tigers, who struggled mightily on that side of the ball in 2022. According to Big Game Boomer, a college football social media influencer and creator of controversial lists, has released a graphic containing his top 50 defensive coordinators in college football. Roberts comes in at No. 40 on the list, also good for No. 8 in the SEC among defensive coordinators. Roberts, who came over with Dave Aranda when Aranda got the Baylor job in early 2020, served as DC for two seasons at Louisiana-Lafayette. Aranda previously served under Roberts when the latter was the head coach at Delta State in 2007. His defense at Baylor led the Big 12 in run defense in 2021 and was No. 3 this year, BU led the conference in turnovers gained last year and was No. 4 this season. He was fired by the Bears. following their disappointing 6-6 campaign this season. The Bears finished 52nd, 28th, and 55th nationally in yards per play during his three years. Roberts also has experience as a head coach, going a combined 89-45 in 11 seasons with Delta State and Southeastern Louisiana. This will be his second Power Five job.

How much does an average season ticket in the SEC cost? Taylor Jones 6–8 minutes It is officially summer, so die-hard college football fans are planning to watch their favorite teams play in the fall. Many fans are even rushing to secure season tickets so they don’t miss any of the 2023 season close to home. Locally, Auburn fans are ready to get back into Jordan-Hare Stadium to support new head coach Hugh Freeze, as well as the revamped roster. According to Jason Caldwell of Auburn Undercover, season ticket sales are ahead of last year’s total by over 5,000 seats, which is the most since 2017. Buy Tigers Tickets The demand for season tickets is incredibly high, but there are still plenty of options available for those who wish to attend every home game of the 2023 season thanks to ticket resale marketplace TicketSmarter. There are several season ticket options available on TicketSmarter for Auburn fans, as well as for fans across the SEC footprint. Who has the lowest average price for season tickets? What about the most expensive? Here’s a look at the average price for one season ticket across the SEC, from least to most expensive. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports TicketSmarter does not any season tickets available for Missouri just yet, but expect tickets to begin appearing soon. Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports Like Missouri, there are no season tickets available for Florida football just yet. Visit Gators Wire for more news on Florida Gators football. Stephen Lew-USA TODAY Sports The lowest known average ticket price belongs to Arkansas with an average price of $305 per ticket. The lowest-priced ticket is $291, and the highest is $340. The demand is high, however, as there were only 30 tickets remaining at the time of this post. For more Arkansas news, check out Razorbacks Wire. Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports Next on the list is the Vanderbilt Commodores with an average ticket price going for $398. The lowest is $335, and the highest stretches to $485. Like Arkansas, the demand is high. There were only 10 season tickets remaining at the time of this post. Bryan Lynn-USA TODAY Sports Mississippi State has 114 season tickets remaining according to TicketSmarter, going for an average price of $638. A seat in section 333 is the cheapest at $395, and a spot directly behind the Bulldogs’ bench will cost a hefty $1,499 per seat. Bryan Lynn-USA TODAY Sports The Bulldogs’ archrival is next on the list. The average price for one season ticket at Ole Miss is $894. The lack of upper decks at Vaught-Hemmingway Stadium mean that each seat is relatively close to the field. The cheapest seat is in section A behind the Ole Miss sideline, which is $555. The most expensive seat will give you a front row seat to the action, as a row one seat in section G will cost you $1,767. Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports The first SEC program with a season-ticket average in the quad digits is Kentucky. The demand is very high however, as there are only two season tickets available for a price of $1,323 a piece. Kim Klement-USA TODAY Sports If you are looking to snag a pair of season tickets to watch the Tigers play at Jordan-Hare Stadium this fall, it is the perfect time to start buying. Sure, Auburn’s season tickets aren’t the cheapest in the SEC, but there are plenty of great seats available. The average price for one season ticket is $1,831, and there are currently 46 tickets available. The cheapest tickets are in section 60 for $784 each, and the most expensive tickets are in the Nelson Club for $6,360. Trevor Ruszkowski-USA TODAY Sports Although the average season ticket price to watch the two-time defending national champions is not the most expensive in the SEC, it is still pricey. The Georgia Bulldogs kick off a new tier by being the first SEC program with an average price of a season ticket to cost more than $2,000. The average price for a season ticket is $2,100, with the most expensive option being in section 20 right behind the Georgia bench. The best value for a season ticket at Sanford Stadium is in section 104 behind the visitors bench, which will cost $1,557. For more Georgia football news, visit UGA Wire. Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports The excitment is high for South Carolina football, and so are the demands for season tickets. There are only 20 season tickets available on TicketSmarter to see all seven of the Gamecocks’ home games at Williams-Brice Stadium for an average price of $2,235. All tickets are behind the Gamecocks’ bench, with the best value being in section 4, where a fourth row ticket will cost you $2,218. Streeter Lecka/Getty Images After the season that the Tennessee Volunteers had in 2022, it is easy to see why a season ticket at Neyland Stadium is quite extravagant. There are only 28 season tickets remaining for an average price of $2,440 a piece. The closest seat to the field is a row 37 spot in section W, and costs $2,560. For more news on Tennessee football, visit Vols Wire. Dale Zanine-USA TODAY Sports The success of the Alabama Crimson Tide hasn’t slowed down, and neither has the demand for season tickets. There are 12 tickets that carry season merit remaining on TicketSmarter for an average of $2,598 a peice. The cheapest ticket as it stands will cost you $1,617, and a seat in section HH behind the visitors sideline will set you back $4,116. For more Alabama football coverage, check out Roll Tide Wire. Maria Lysaker-USA TODAY Sports There are plenty of season tickets remaining on TicketSmarter for Texas A&M fans, but it will cost a pretty penny to secure those seats. The average price for a season ticket at Kyle Field is currently $2,604, with the priciest ticket costing $10,996, which is the highest in the SEC. There are plenty of options below $1,000, with the cheapest costing $525. For more Texas A&M news, visit Aggies Wire. Marianna Massey/Getty Images The highest average season ticket price in the SEC belongs to the LSU Tigers with a median price of $3,269. The cheapest ticket will set you back $1,153, and the highest ticket costs $7,450. That ticket will get you a second row seat in the end zone above the tunnel where the LSU players enter and exit the field. For more LSU news, visit LSU Tigers

Trump Extremists Demand Civil War, Mass Murder After New Indictment Tim Dickinson 6–8 minutes Extreme supporters of Donald Trump have met news of his federal indictment with visions of violence and retribution. At The Donald, a forum for ultra-MAGA Trump supporters, users demanded public executions and other forms of lynching to avenge the federal prosecution of Trump, for the alleged mishandling of state secrets at Mar a Lago after he was no longer president. The calls for violence appeared in comment threads, responding to posts on the front page of the forum Thursday night, after news broke of Trump’s latest legal troubles. The most extreme comments were written in response to a fanciful post insisting “the only solution” to DOJ’s efforts to lock up Trump would be to vote him back into the presidency, so Trump could “pardon himself and begin arresting those guilty of insurrection and sedition.” A user named “Belac186” offered a far deadlier fix: “The only way this country ever becomes anything like the Constitution says this country should be is if thousands of traitorous rats are publicly executed.” Commenter “DogFaceKilla” quickly chimed in to offer supplies: “I got some rope somewhere in the garage…” And “Heavy_Metal_Patriot” added: “Hans says we can borrow the flammenwerfer” — a reference to a battlefield flame thrower used to by German soldiers in World War II. The proposal for mass killing struck user “BlackPilledMAGA” as going too far: “Doesn’t have to be thousands, just a few dozen would do. s*** would STOP immediately.” But user “Nerdrem1” insisted taking out a few elites wouldn’t make the difference, suggesting the number of dead required was on a genocidal scale: “Millions. The real problem is the people that vote for them, as long as they exist the problem can’t be solved.” A user named “Heavy_Metal_Patriot” concurred: “Correct.” It might be tempting to dismiss these calls for mass murder as loose talk among angry MAGAdonians. Yet there is dark history here. In a previous iteration, The Donald was used to help plot and promote the violence at the Capitol in 2021, as detailed in the final report of the House Jan. 6 Committee, including by users who “openly discussed surrounding and occupying the U.S. Capitol.” On The Donald, users can post a headline or a meme with hopes that others will “upvote” to the front page. Clicking on a post then brings up a comment section, where the most popular comments similarly rise to the top. The forum is rightly notorious as a place for bad Internet behavior. It began on Reddit, before getting banned for upvoting “rule-breaking content” and for moderators who “refused to meet our most basic expectations.” The forum then launched as a standalone site at TheDonald.win, but a top moderator pulled the plug on that site following the havoc of Jan. 6. Finally it was rebooted for third time at Patriots.win, where it continues to connect the Trump faithful — and offer the rest of us a disturbing window into the psyche of the MAGA fever swamps. The Donald still bills itself as “a high-energy rally for supporters of President Trump” and the forum’s rules include exhortations to “Follow the Law” and to “Be Vigilant” because “your posts and comments may become news.” The forum did not respond to questions emailed to its press line about its moderation practices or how it handles open calls to violence. As Rolling Stone has reported, The Donald has lately gravitated away from hero worship of the 45th president and toward noxious culture-war issues, particularly promoting hate toward LGBTQ people. (To wit: the top “Hot” post by Friday morning was a post bemoaning the endorsement of Pride month by a fast-casual restaurant chain: “Cracker Barrel went woke.”) But big news events involving Trump still stoke the passions of extremist users. Katie McCarthy is an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League who monitors The Donald closely. She recalls that users were also ”very angry” about Trump’s first indictment in New York, making posts that included “calls for civil war, violence, and retribution.” In fact, the threat of civil war was on the minds of The Donald again on Thursday. Under a meme post showing Donald Trump with laser eyes and the text “YUGE MISTAKE,” forum posters wrote of preparing for violence. User “horsepaste420” wrote: “I just feel like we’re going through the motions until all hell breaks loose.” A commenter named “Blackrider” concurred: “Same here dude. Stacking bags and loading mags. Just waiting for the calm to end, and the chaos to begin.” A responding to another user’s prediction of “civil war,” a commenter named ”pushbackv2” called such a conflict “inevitable” and predicted “it’s right around the corner.” Elsewhere in the same comments section, user “vax_was_a_bioweapon” posted about the indictment as though it were interference in the democratic process — a development that would demand a deadly response: “If they steal the election again why are we talking about anything but dragging the political elite out of their homes and setting them on fire?” User “HawkTheSlayer” suggested a somewhat different lynching strategy: “I prefer tying them to vehicles and dragging them across concrete until they are ground down to nothing.” A user whose handle is “-jjjjjjjjjj-” then appeared to reference a famous revolutionary quote from Thomas Jefferson about the “the tree of liberty” needing to be “refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants,” suggesting that Trump could jumpstart hostilities with a single phrase: “The only thing that’s going to change the course of this country from its present heading of a Marxist dictatorship,” the commenter wrote, “is if Trump stands up in Court and says ‘to all of my supporters, the tree needs watering and now is the time.’” More from Rolling Stone

dude you told me it was a lie. did you just wake up or something? his own brother outed him out. and you got mad and showed your behind. then when i proved it was true you ran off. i am not going over it a third time. go back and look.

now i wonder what trump and putin discussed between the two of them and the russian translator. remember he ran ALL the Americans out of the room?

The Most Shocking Allegations From Trump’s Damning Indictment The DOJ unsealed the charges against Trump on Friday, alleging the former president conspired to destroy documents, stored sensitive material in a ballroom, and more Donald Trump. Getty Images The Justice Department unsealed its indictment against Donald Trump on Friday, revealing its allegations against the former president related to the classified documents he stored at Mar-a-Lago after leaving the White House. The 49-page indictment — which you can read here in its entirety — is damning, alleging that Trump took documents he knew were classified to Mar-a-Lago, stored them in unsecure locations and showed them to people without clearance to see them, and then, when authorities tried to retrieve them, conspired to lie about what he possessed and even have the material destroyed. Here are the most shocking allegations from the indictment: Trump, along with aide Walt Nauta, has been indicted on a total of 37 federal felony counts related to the investigation. Thirty-one of those counts relate directly to “willful retention of national defense information.” Other counts include conspiracy to obstruct justice, corruptly concealing a record or document, concealing a document in a federal investigation, scheme to conceal, false statements and representations. . The indictment alleges that after the FBI opened an investigation into Trump’s document hoarding, the former president suggested that his “attorney hide or destroy documents called for by the grand jury subpoena.” After Trump was subpoenaed, he reportedly told his lawyers in a discussion of the required search that he didn’t really “want anybody looking through my boxes, I really don’t, I don’t want you looking through my boxes.” “We, what happens if we just don’t respond at all or don’t play ball with them?” Trump added. “Wouldn’t it be better if we just told them we don’t have anything here?” The former president went so far as to suggest that it would be better if there simply “are no documents” at all. As alleged in the indictment, Trump’s boxes of purloined documents “included information regarding defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.” The indictment includes a list of secret documents that Trump is alleged to have “without authorization, retained at The Mar-a-Lago Club.” They include a “TOP SECRET … Document dated June 2020 concerning the nuclear capabilities of a foreign country” and a “SECRET.. Undated document concerning nuclear weaponry of the United States.” A separate “SECRET” document dated from Dec. 2019 concerned “foreign country support of terrorist acts against United States interests” The indictment alleges that upon leaving office, “Trump caused his boxes, containing hundreds of classified documents, to be transported from the White House to The Mar-a-Lago Club.” Trump’s disregard for the sensitivity of the documents, as alleged in the indictment, is jaw dropping. He allegedly left his boxes piled in an unsecured event space at his club. From January to mid March of 2021, the indictment states, a number of “TRUMP’s boxes were stored in The Mar a Lago Club’s White and Gold Ballroom, in which events and gatherings took place. TRUMP’s boxes were for a time stacked on the ballroom stage.” He also kept boxes of documents stacked in a bathroom, right next to the toilet. In July 2021, months after his departure from office, Trump met with “a writer and a publisher in connection with a then-forthcoming book.” Two members of Trump’s staff also attended the meeting. In a recording of the conversation, the existence of which was reported last week by CNN, Trump discussed a classified document he had retained from his time in office. “It is like, highly confidential,” Trump told those present, “Secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this.” “See as president I could have declassified it … Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.” he added, contradicting claims he made about having declassified the documents he kept. “Now we have a problem,” a staffer responded. In a separate incident just weeks later, the indictment alleges, “TRUMP showed a representative of his political action committee” who also did not have the proper clearance, “a classified map related to a military operation.” Trump allegedly knew that the interaction was improper, admitting to his PAC pal “that he should not be showing” the map, and instructing “that the representative should not get too close.”

i posted that several days ago but nice excuse. but you and others bitch about ichy and emojies so i think that is bad look to bang someone about what you do all the time as well.

if hunter is guilty i say get him. so do most of the left on here unless they are making a point.

do it! this is smack down. we will bitch and then love you for it...............well mostly lol

i call bull****. i have approached you with facts about tubs and you still ignore me. again, his own brother called him racist as well as the national media. act like you own a pair and admit you were wrong. and never jump ichy again for emojies as you do the same thing especially when you have been busted over a lie and have no comeback. instead of admiting you were wrong you just hope it goes away right?

that and all the money his followers send in to him. millions...............

but trump kept lying about it over and over. now his poor ol butler will probably go down because trump got him to lie and he got caught lying for trump. biden complied. on hill i have no idea but i know they ALL used email and stuff they were not supposed to. w did and cheney did as well and no one appears to be upset. but let a dem start an illegal war based on lies and they would hang his ass on the front lawn. why have they not been held accountable? we can piss and moan all we want but most presidents get away with murder unless you are trump and piss everyone off pretty much. trump thinks he is bigger than america and has continually showed his ass and now he is in for it.

i am not going to jump kansas because at the end of the day he is for the truth and i believe this. besides he is one of the few people on here that like me regardless of politics. many across the aisle on here would not admit the truth if it punched them in the mouth.

rollingstone.com Special Counsel Uses Trump’s Own National Security Staff Against Him Asawin Suebsaeng 9–12 minutes Skip to main content The Special Counsel Is Using Trump’s Own National Security Staff Against Him Jack Smith's investigators used Team Trump's own words to demonstrate the former president he knew the rules for classified materials, sources tell Rolling Stone Snake on a plane Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty Images Since last year, Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team of investigators and Justice Department attorneys have interviewed an array of officials who served on Donald Trump’s National Security Council, grilling them about specific instances that show the then-president acknowledged proper and legal declassification processes, according to two sources familiar with the situation. In questioning these NSC veterans and other former Trump administration personnel, the federal investigators appear to have meticulously constructed a roadmap of eyewitness accounts. These accounts, including specific dates and topics of discussion in the White House, include various moments during Trump’s presidency where he is said to have verbally stated he understood that declassifying highly sensitive documents is typically a complex, multi-staged procedure, the two sources say. Some of these accounts include former Trump administration staff recounting times he was briefed on the legal protocols, after having complained to aides that he wanted certain items declassified and released quickly. The issue of Trump’s knowledge of proper declassification procedures is key to proving the charge of gathering, transmitting or losing defense information outlined in the indictment unsealed on Friday afternoon. Under the section of the Espionage Act Smith used in Friday’s indictment, prosecutors will have to prove that Trump “willfully”— and not just accidentally — retained the classified materials found at his residence. The testimony of National Security Council veterans demonstrating Trump’s knowledge of and participating in proper, legal declassification measures would buttress the charge that Trump knew the materials were classified, undercutting any attempts to cast their presence at Mar-a-Lago was the result of an ad-hoc declassification process. Early on in the classified documents investigation, Trump’s office claimed that he had a so-called “standing order” to automatically declassify materials taken to the White House residence—an order whose existence Trump has so far failed to prove. A Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A Justice Department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. The special counsel’s investigators have also asked the former national security staff to walk them through the standard declassification processes during the Trump era, asking if there was any evidence whatsoever of a major change or a “standing order” that Trump previously alleged he secretly had for instant-declassification. Additionally, the special counsel’s office has formed a list of individuals without required security clearances who they believe Trump showed off classified papers to in his post-presidency, two other sources with knowledge of the matter tell Rolling Stone. Other witnesses, including people who remained in the former president’s orbit following the end of his term in early 2021, have been asked about details regarding Trump’s propensity for brandishing these documents to his club guests, and at times were asked if foreign nationals had seen any of the classified documents in question. These witness interviews conducted by the Special Counsel’s office added to the work started last year by the FBI, which had been interviewing Trump-era NSC staffers before Smith had even been appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland last November. The effort to undercut Trump’s potential defenses began early in the FBI’s investigation. As Rolling Stone reported in August of last year, agents began grilling former National Security Council staff about Trump’s claims of a “standing order” to declassify materials taken from the Oval Office just days after the Bureau executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago. In February, former Trump national security advisor Robert O’Brien also appeared before the grand jury following a subpoena. CNN reported Thursday that an unnamed former Trump national security official appeared before the grand jury to testify about the former president’s involvement in previous declassification efforts. The official’s testimony reportedly centered around Trump’s involvement in the effort to declassify a 2018 memo written by Republicans on the the House Intelligence Committee criticizing the investigation into the Russian meddling probe during the Trump administration. As Rolling Stone reported in September, Trump was also deeply involved in a last-minute effort to declassify documents related to the FBI’s investigation of his campaign in 2016. The effort, spearheaded by chief of staff Mark Meadows in the hours before Joe Biden’s inauguration, saw both Trump and his top aide engaged in a fruitless effort to get the Justice Department to relent on its objections to releasing the information. But some of the most damning evidence concerning Trump’s awareness that he was violating secrecy rules appears to come from the former president himself. In the transcript, Trump complains about a New Yorker story which reported that Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley had tried to prevent Trump from carrying out a strike on Iran. The former president describes a Defense Department “plan of attack” apparently in front of him and acknowledges that it is “still a secret” and that “as president I could have declassified it.” The comments demonstrate Trump’s apparent awareness that the document remained classified and seems to seriously undercut his claims of a “standing order” which declassified any documents taken from the White House. In a separate incident, Trump also allegedly showed a staffer at his political action committee a “classified map related to a military operation” and admitted “he should not be showing it to the [staffer].” Smith also devoted space in the indictment to half-a-dozen public statements in which Trump spoke about the importance of and the need to protect classified information demonstrating the president’s repeated awareness of the need for and laws governing the protection of national defense information. The statements mostly date from 2016, when Trump was implicitly and explicitly criticizing his campaign rival Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified emails.

he just told you he was at work.i would not be doing any victory laps there don jr. catch him when he has time and then see. you are such a turd.

if you give it back to him he backs off some. still lies like hell tho................

i voted for bernie............

Open in app or online Donald Trump is ******* INDICTED boys and girls, can you spell fuuuuuuuucked? Jeff Tiedrich Jun 9 the sun is shining a little brighter this morning. the birds are singing sweeter. the air smells fresher. Donald Trump has been ******* indicted. for stealing documents and hiding them, moving them, lying about returning them, sorting through them, showing them off to randos, and on top of it all, blowing off a subpoena. and — holy ******* s*** — we now have Trump on tape admitting that he couldn’t declassify them. “‘As president, I could have declassified, but now I can’t,’ Trump says, according to the transcript.” boys and girls, can you spell fuuuuuuuucked? the indictment remains under seal until Trump surrenders himself to authorities Tuesday morning (oh my god I can’t believe I just got to type that sentence), but here’s what we know so far: “A lawyer for Mr. Trump, Jim Trusty, told CNN on Thursday night that the former president’s legal team had not been shown the indictment itself but that the court summons gave some details on the charges. He mentioned alleged Espionage Act violations, false-statement charges and ‘several obstruction-based’ charges, including offenses under Section 1512, which criminalizes witness tampering or other means of obstructing an official effort.” espionage, ladies and gentlemen. Jack Smith, the guy who convicts war criminals in The Hague, is not ******* around here. “do I look like someone who ***** around here?” naturally, the entire wingnut outrage-industrial complex, as if on cue, melted straight the **** down. Hawley, my dude, you literally shouted LOCK HER UP at your rallys. “the walls are closing in.” oh Lauren, you gun-worshipping bubblehead moron. do you ever listen to yourself? Kevin, did Marjorie Sporkytoes give you permission to tweet that? Ted Cruz is a Harvard-educated lawyer. he knows that he’s completely full of s*** here. but he also knows that his voters are too ******* dumb to know this — or care. all these ****heads haven’t even seen the evidence, yet they’re carrying water for an accused spy. listen up, dipshits: Donald Trump was not indicted by Joe Biden. Donald Trump was not indicted by Merrick Garland. Donald Trump was not indicted by the Department of Justice. Donald Trump was indicted by a grand jury made up of ordinary Americans, like you or me, who listened to the witnesses, saw the evidence, and then determined that there’s probable cause that Donald Trump committed crimes. “but her emailsssssssssssa” Donald Trump’s living nightmare is far from over. there’s still Jack Smith’s Jan 6th investigation. and don’t forget about Fani Willis down in Georgia. have a great weekend, everyone. because Donald Trump is ******* indicted. everyone is entitled to my own opinion is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Upgrade to paid You're currently a free subscriber to everyone is entitled to my own opinion . For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. Upgrade to paid Like Comment Restack © 2023 Jeff Tiedrich 548 Market Street PMB 72296, San Francisco, CA 94104

Who is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Jon Ward·Chief National CorrespondentFri, June 9, 2023 at 4:00 AM CDT 4–6 minutes U.S. 2024 Democratic presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks to the press at the State House in Concord, N.H., on June 1. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images) Many Democrats (and even some Kennedys) wish Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would simply slink away and disappear, like an embarrassing party guest. But instead, RFK Jr., who launched his Democratic presidential primary campaign in April, has gained traction, especially among a subset of contrarian figures such as Elon Musk, who have cast him as a free speech hero. Recent polls have shown Kennedy with anywhere from 12% to 16% support in surveys of likely Democratic primary voters, including a Yahoo News/YouGov poll from late May. But another poll from CNN the same month showed Kennedy with 20% support. That doesn’t necessarily make him a serious contender for the Democratic nomination, but his famous last name has made him relevant so far. Kennedy is the son of slain former Attorney General and U.S. Senator Bobby Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968 while running for president himself. He talks about himself as continuing the legacy of his father and his uncle, former President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., left, with other members of the Kennedy family, at the gravesite of his brother President John Fitzgerald Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 22, 1996, the 33rd anniversary of JFK's assassination. From left to right, Kennedy, Sargent Shriver, his brother-in-law; Victoria Kennedy, the senator's wife; his brother Robert's wife, Ethel Kennedy; and his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Kennedy is also an avatar for a belief system that has become more popular in recent years: that the world is controlled by shadowy unseen forces who manipulate the public for money and power. And Kennedy could potentially hamper Biden enough to help Republicans in the 2024 election. Specifically, there is concern that in New Hampshire — which votes early in the process — Kennedy could perform well enough to embarrass Biden in next year’s primaries, which could ultimately help a Republican candidate for president win the state in the fall. New Hampshire Democrats are fighting with the national Democratic Party, which has stripped the state of its coveted spot as the first primary contest in the nominating process. If New Hampshire defies the Democratic Party’s decision and goes first anyway, as it seems intent on doing, it would render the contest noncompliant, the result would not count, and Biden’s name would not be on the ballot there. That would give Kennedy an opening to gain vote share there and claim a moral victory. And it would also probably divert voters, who could vote in either primary, toward the Republican primary, possibly influencing them to vote Republican again in the fall election. “Kennedy won’t win, but he can hurt Biden, and that’s the point,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Massachusetts Democrat who worked for Robert Kennedy Jr.’s uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. Kennedy’s stated rationale for his campaign is that the Democratic Party has forsaken the working class and poor, and that he is summoning it to return to their side. But Kennedy is best known as a vaccine critic. He has devoted himself for years to questioning the safety and efficacy of numerous vaccines. eni Valenzuela, 2, held by her mother Xihuitl Mendoza, receives her first dose of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccination from a nurse, Deborah Sampson, at University of Washington Medical Center-Roosevelt in Seattle on June 21, 2022. (David Ryder/Getty Images) Then COVID-19 made him into a folk hero to those who believe that social media companies were wrong to remove, or limit the spread, on their platforms of claims opposing the evolving medical consensus during the pandemic. A 2021 Associated Press investigation into Kennedy’s claims about the COVID vaccine found that he had contributed to “a disinformation echo chamber that reinforces false narratives that downplay the dangers of COVID-19 while exaggerating the risks of the vaccine.” Kennedy’s campaign centers on his claim that the government and big business are working together to benefit the rich and oppress working people. “My mission,” Kennedy said during a nearly two-hour speech announcing his candidacy, “will be to end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power.”

why do you lie all the time and ignore the truth? i understand it takes a real man to admit when he is wrong so no surprise there. but the lies get old and you will catch hell for them when i have time.

he lies all the time and in discussion he never admits when he is wrong. ever. i cannot stand a liar. i get stuff mixed up but i never just lie about it out right.

Right-Wingers Mocked For Full-Blown Freakout Over 'Woke' Cracker Barrel Ed Mazza 5–6 minutes Conservatives are having a kitten over Cracker Barrel’s embrace of Pride Month and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The outrage adds the country store and restaurant chain to the string of companies and products being canceled by the right for being too “woke,” joining the likes of Chick-fil-A, Bud Light, Target, Kohl’s, The North Face, Lego and more. One conservative group declared that “Cracker Barrel has fallen” because of the company’s fairly conventional nod to inclusion and diversity: Right-wingers were also triggered by an image the company posted on its social media channels showing its porch full of rocking chairs, with one featuring a rainbow pattern in the slats: Cracker Barrel Cracker Barrel “We are excited to celebrate Pride Month with our employees and guests. Everyone is always welcome at our table,” the company wrote. Cracker Barrel did not always welcome everyone at its table, or at least within its employment ranks. The company notoriously banned LGBTQ people from working in its restaurants and fired employees it learned were gay. Those transphobic policies were reversed in 1991. The company now has a diversity, equity and inclusion policy, scores an 80 on the Human Rights Campaign’s corporate equality index and made headlines in 2019 for refusing to allow an anti-gay pastor to hold an event in one of its restaurants. Right-wingers aren’t happy with those changes, but plenty of people are thrilled ― and many comments on Facebook are celebrating the company. Cracker Barrel is responding to some of those positive posts. “We want everyone to feel welcome at our table, and that will never change,” the company said in response to one. “We truly value what everyone brings to the table and couldn’t be happier to read your kind words,” it wrote to another. The right’s latest meltdown led to big laughs on Twitter ― and caused Cracker Barrel to trend: After the great gay purge of 1991, the gays have slowly infiltrated and taken over Cracker Barrel. We play the long game. pic.twitter.com/kQhhbSrROm — Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) June 9, 2023 My dearest Cynthia, I write to you today a broken man. Despite our best efforts, the Cracker Barrel fell. We fought for its potpourri-scented gift shop, its tabletop puzzles. Our tears and sweat mixed with the cream gravy atop the chicken fried steaks. https://t.co/50JSBntRj3 — brooke foster, 2023 edition (@lonesometoast) June 9, 2023 Cracker Barrel: we’re going to treat our customers like we would anyone else, even if they’re gay, lesbian, trans, etc. 40% of America: pic.twitter.com/apqs6SxOSt — Nathan Santo Domingo (@NSDwx) June 9, 2023 Pat Robertson 👉 DEAD Trump 👉 INDICTED Cracker Barrel 👉 FALLEN Listen the planet may be on fire but I’m gonna find my joy wherever I can 😌 pic.twitter.com/2bYReGtsIk — Luna (@Lunalore) June 9, 2023 "My darlin' Beulah. We marched on Tallahassee today only to confirm the worst of the rumors. Cracker Barrel has fallen. Kiss my children-cousins for me and pray for my soul. I shall now drink from a rusty puddle and hope for death." — Dennis Perkins Will Never Pay Apartheid Boy A Dime (@DennisPerkins5) June 9, 2023 LMAO hold up…so Pat Robertson dies, Trump gets indicted and Cracker Barrel goes "woke"….The MAGAs must be losing their s*** right now 🤣 pic.twitter.com/ursAPVoOcF — Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 9, 2023 Dearest Penelope, Cracker Barrel has fallen. I never thought I would be writing these mournful words to you, but the moment we dreaded for so long has arrived. We regroup now to take our positions at Hobby Lobby. Kiss the children for me, and pray. Yours in haste, Elmer pic.twitter.com/lntI77HqEi — Julia S. (@booktweeting) June 9, 2023 Texas Family Project devastated they can no longer bring their kids to Cracker Barrel before leaving them with predatory youth pastor. https://t.co/pKoHi799LM — The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) June 9, 2023 My dearest Clotilda, The news from the front is terrible. We happened upon a Cracker Barrel, where we had hoped to sup and rest up before the next battle at Wokesburg. To our shock, we found the place overrun by the gays. We retreated til the morning. Ever yours, Eaton Beaver — Michael Feher (same @ on The Pliocene Pachyderm) (@SaxMike71) June 9, 2023 Conservatives are pissed off because Cracker Barrel has one rainbow rocking chair. For real, you guys know you look ridiculous, right? There are real problems in the world. A rocking chair is not one. I'm gonna order chicken and dumplings tomorrow, with fried apples 😤 pic.twitter.com/xhBP901Dl0 — Karlyn Borysenko (@DrKarlynB) June 9, 2023

Ed Mazza People Sure Think Marjorie Taylor Greene Just Admitted To A Crime On Live TV Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) raised eyebrows with a claim she made during a TV interview on Thursday evening. Greene said she read a document inside a SCIF ― a sensitive compartmented information facility ― related to bribery allegations Republicans have made against President Joe Biden but have yet to provide evidence for. Then, she described that document while speaking to Laura Ingraham on Fox News: Greene said the document was “unclassified,” but a SCIF is typically used only for very sensitive information. Lawmakers generally must check all electronic devices before entering, and cannot take notes while inside. And usually, information revealed in the SCIF can’t be repeated outside of it. But Greene ― a conspiracy theorist and close ally of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) who has called for a “national divorce” and spoke last year at a white nationalist event ― said she copied as much as she could once she left the SCIF. “This is a document that all of America should be able to see, but the FBI is stonewalling us and they would only let us see it in a SCIF,” she said. “Well what I did after reading the document is I made notes when I walked out and I went up to the table.” She held up those notes to the camera. “I wrote down everything that I had just read so that I could come out and tell the American people what I read,” she said. Her critics were baffled by what seemed like a confession. Mark Zaid, an attorney who specializes in national security, tweeted: Hey @FBI, if this information was classified sounds to me like the Congresswoman is admitting to a crime. And if it was not, @SpeakerMcCarthy should remove her privileges for violating the trust she was afforded as a Member of Congress to review sensitive information. https://t.co/96ul95DeO8 — Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) June 9, 2023 Others also chimed in ― and some were even more blunt: This means her notes have the same classification as the document she read. And those notes are unsecured. She’s now in violation of US law. https://t.co/bWfQCCjizL — John Aravosis 🇺🇸🇬🇷🏳️🌈 ex-verif’d (@aravosis) June 9, 2023 Wait. So if I had Top Secret clearance and saw a doc that showed me the name and SSN of a spy, and I memorized it and then walked out and wrote it down on paper and waved it around on cable TV, my ass wouldn’t be headed to prison for some treason s***? Because it should be. https://t.co/ZD5bGMExKP — Sean Herrala (@seanherrala) June 9, 2023 The GOP really needs to get people who are better at doing crimes, because this one was like, "HEY, EXCUSE ME, IS THERE A CAMERA I CAN DO THIS CRIME IN FRONT OF, PLEASE?" https://t.co/AMAmb0sFWT — Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) June 9, 2023 A SCIF is a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility: an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information types of classified information. If given documents to be viewed in a SCIF, you CANNOT write the info down & bring it out. https://t.co/vStamTVF5B — 🄼🄰🅁🅈 🄼🄰🅁🅈 🅀🅄🄸🅃🄴 🄲🄾🄽🅃🅁🄰🅁🅈 (@ImpossiblyBossy) June 9, 2023 Any other crimes you wanna admit to while being recorded, @RepMTG? — Michael VanDeMar (@mvandemar) Jun

ol trumpie will be taking green stamps before it is over.......................and they will send them.