The Tragic Death of the Republican Party - Page 767 - Politics and Economics

Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media has established an RRSP eligible retirement savings fund marketed to conservatives called the “Rebel Freedom Fund.”

After struggling through rocky times in 2017, Levant is apparently now looking to diversify Rebel Media’s revenue streams, teaming up with an Alberta-based wealth management firm to offer Levant’s aging viewers the opportunity to stash their nest eggs in an alt-right website.

“The fund is directed at investors seeking to save for retirement or in retirement that desire modest, regular, steady income,” reads an information sheet promoting the fund. The sheet also notes the Rebel Freedom Fund is a match made in heaven for those looking for “both a financial and ideologically based investment.”

Move over Patriot seeds and neotropics, now we have Patriot retirement accounts from Canada's conservative fever swamp

https://pressprogress.ca/rebel-media...-freedom-fund/

02-22-2018 , 03:48 PM

#19153

stinkubus

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WTF does a fund which is "ideologically conservative" do? Do they only invest in companies which discriminate against women and minorities?

02-22-2018 , 05:51 PM

#19154

zikzak

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It does exactly what every other ideologically conservative thing does - leverage vague cultural grievances to take your money.

02-22-2018 , 06:24 PM

#19155

fatkid

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http://www.kansascity.com/news/polit...201629499.html

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Gov. Eric Greitens was indicted Thursday afternoon by a St. Louis grand jury on a felony charge of invasion of privacy.

The charge stems from a 2015 affair and allegations that he threatened to release a nude photograph of the woman, taken while she was blindfolded and her hands were bound, if she ever spoke publicly about the affair.

02-23-2018 , 12:29 AM

#19156

aoFrantic

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Louis Cyphre

There are a lot of serial killers, child molesters and terrorists out there.

If you're making me choose who is a worse person between David Clarke and Larry Nassar it's a tough ****ing choice.

02-23-2018 , 03:20 PM

#19157

OneEyedPoker

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Join Date: Feb 2017 Posts: 569

GOP member gets caught with something and of course it's Soros fault. These people are insane

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/967106850826137600

02-24-2018 , 04:13 PM

#19158

Riverman

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It amazes me that the playbook is like 4 pages deep, max.

Hillary
Obama
Soros
Minorities

???

02-24-2018 , 04:28 PM

#19159

Louis Cyphre

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It‘s what their audience wants to hear. Lynyrd Skynyrd can play their back catalogue only for so long before the fans start screaming „Free Bird!“.

02-24-2018 , 04:37 PM

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synth_floyd

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Yeah I heard part of a speech where people were yelling "lock her up." It must be an involuntary reflex at this point. Or, just like Trump they only care about fighting political battles and have no interest in actually governing the country and actually trying to improve people's lives. Fox news/social media/ the 24 hr news cycle have turned politics into a sport and an entertainment and not a civic duty.

02-24-2018 , 06:08 PM

#19161

Loki

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i mean, politics in america isn't designed as a civic duty to start with

02-24-2018 , 06:10 PM

#19162

Riverman

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If we voted on a national holiday none of this would be happening

02-24-2018 , 06:25 PM

#19163

eyebooger

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If we had a national holiday for voting, all the lower class people would be scheduled to work that day for ZOMG VOTING DAY SALE.

We should just make it voting week.

02-24-2018 , 06:36 PM

#19164

PoppaTMan

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lol going to the polls at all

mail-in voting is elite

02-24-2018 , 07:03 PM

#19165

OneEyedPoker

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Not only has Beto O’Rourke raised almost 3 times as much as Cruz in 2018 but Cruz has also spent $400k more than he has raised. Cruz does still have a fair amount of cash on hand but the disparity in the amount raised is definitely interesting

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/967460396792721410

02-24-2018 , 09:12 PM

#19166

zikzak

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I'm glad Beto is making a serious run, but he's still a massive underdog.

02-27-2018 , 03:57 PM

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goofyballer

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Hay guise, who wants to check in on the Republican Senate primary in Missouri?

Roy Moore has made an endorsement!

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Former judge Roy Moore has endorsed a controversial conservative firebrand for the Senate race in Missouri, in his first major political move since losing his own Senate campaign in Alabama last year.

Moore, who was defeated after multiple women accused him of making sexual advances toward them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s, has put his weight behind Courtland Sykes, a Navy veteran who has called feminists “she-devils” and said he would not want daughters who were “career-obsessed banshees.”

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He attracted national attention in January when he posted a transcript on Facebook about his views on the proper role of women, including his fiancee, Chanel Rion.

“I want to come home to a home-cooked dinner at 6 every night, one that she fixes and one that I expect one day to have daughters learn to fix after they become traditional homemakers and family wives,” Sykes said.

After his endorsement, Moore emailed his supporters with a message from Sykes, who argued that the same forces that opposed Moore would now oppose him. “This is war—and war needs warriors who can inflict political war casualties on the left—mean, deadly political damage they won’t recover from,” Sykes wrote in the email. “In war the defense must equal the offense.”

lmao

02-27-2018 , 04:33 PM

#19168

sportsjefe

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Look up pictures of Chanel Rion and have your jaw drop.

02-27-2018 , 05:03 PM

#19169

goofyballer

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"Crazy dumb conservative marries hot, equally crazy Southern belle" isn't exactly shocking, but that did yield this extremely entertaining Wonkette article about her

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The “About Me” section [of Rion's website] also goes into detail about that “traditional girls” mystery books series that she is supposed to have authored three of so far.

Chanel’s “Mystery by Design” series for girls Available January 1 stands apart from the gender-hostile, Hollywood “rip and hate” spirit of radical feminism that has brought so much coldness, pain, failure and disappointment to so many young women whose lives radical feminism has twisted and irreparably ruined with its toxic and confused mental stew of pointless competition, manophobia, hatred, gender-confusion and blame that radical feminism is and has always been about. She rejects it outright and wants as many girls as she can reach to reject it too.

Well! This sure seems fascinating! And also exactly like everything her fiancée said about us monophonic feminists the other day. I wonder what a mystery book series for traditional girls would look like? Would they be on the case of the missing butter churn or wandering womb?

Too bad I can’t know — because I can find absolutely no record of these books existing outside of her website.

(one among many bizarre, outlandish claims about her work and life that the article details)

02-27-2018 , 05:11 PM

#19170

whosnext

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I sincerely hope that they do not have children.

02-27-2018 , 05:24 PM

#19171

goofyballer

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Oh come on, you know that couple has like 4 kids minimum.

02-27-2018 , 05:32 PM

#19172

Riverman

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On my bad days I fight the urge to move to the south, become a right wing grifter, marry a hottie and stop giving a ****.

03-01-2018 , 11:01 AM

#19173

Huehuecoyotl

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As racial, religious, and ideological identities have cumulatively moved into greater alignment with Democratic and Republican identities in recent decades, American partisans have grown increasingly identified with their parties due to the psychological effects of identity alignment captured in objective and subjective sorting mechanisms. However, we find that this effect is more powerful among Republicans than among Democrats, due to the general social homogeneity of the Republican party. Contrary to the assessments of modern political punditry, Republicans are more susceptible to identity-based politics.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...ops.12485/full

03-01-2018 , 12:03 PM

#19174

FlyWf

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Man whenever I read these stories about nutjobs with things like this:

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After South Korea, Chanel and her family moved into an ancient strap and gear crossed grain-grinding stone watermill in France, a three-story affair, where farmers in oxcarts and pickups actually brought grain by for grinding. “When winter came,” Chanel recalls, “the miller quit and we moved to an unheated stone maison in the hills of a communist farming village in the mountain region of France where we bought goat cheese and baguettes every day from a monastery on the way home from school and where dad again swore we were never returning to the U.S.”

I simply get endlessly sidetracked into trying to figure out what possible sort of job you could have to provide that level of wealth combined with that level of rootlessness. Then I remembered inheritances and get real real mad. But also,

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Chanel's upbringing required keeping her schooling at home. Except for her early schooling in France and debate camps at conservative America's famous Patrick Henry College, near Washington D.C., neither she nor her brother or sister ever set foot in a school until university.

That would explain why she's so dumb, but later,

Quote:

Chanel spent her first grade year not speaking English at school where she heard not a word about politics from her presumably communistic first-grade French classmates.

Thinking emoji.

05-25-2018 , 05:43 PM

#19175

grizy

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Necroing the thread and this could just as well go in the death of Democratic party but GOP has jumped over more sharks than the Democrats so far. Just the first 10 minutes. I actually support UBI but this video isn't about that really. (All it says is we need a proper experiment with UBI)

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