Right Wing Round-Up: God’s Will

  • Tommy Christopher @ Mediaite: Trump Rants in Dead Of Night He Needs FULL IMMUNITY — Even For EVENTS THAT CROSSED THE LINE.
  • Former President Donald Trump escalated his argument for “FULL IMMUNITY” with a late-late-night social media post likening presidents to the occasional “ROGUE COP” who must be shielded from prosecution for the greater good.

  • Sam Brodey and Riley Rogerson @ The Daily Beast: This GOP Rep.’s Anti-Abortion Stances Keep Vanishing From Her Website.
  • Rep. Monica De La Cruz (R-TX) initially ran for Congress with an unabashed anti-abortion stance. Ever since then, abortion has quietly been disappearing from her campaign website.

  • Ron Dicker @ HuffPost: Steve Bannon Loses It After Mike Johnson Says Biden Presidency Is ‘God’s Will.’
  • Former Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon criticized House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to the heavens Wednesday for declaring that Joe Biden is president because God wanted it that way.

  • Troy Matthews @ MeidasTouch Network: Matt Gaetz Torched After Saying ‘Julios’ and ‘Jamals’ Can Replace ‘Karens’ in MAGA Movement.
  • Gaetz told host Carl Higbie that the MAGA movement doesn’t need women because, Gaetz claimed, “For every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement.”

  • Angry White Men: Anna Perez Uses The N-Word While Discussing Black, Gay Conservative.
  • On the Jan. 17, 2024 episode of her Rumble show, Wrongthink Primetime, Anna Perez defended a group of white supremacists who heckled Rob Smith — a Black, gay Republican influencer — with racist and homophobic slurs. Perez also repeated these slurs verbatim, and accused Smith of “whining to CNN” about it.

  • Media Matters: Matt Walsh lashes out at conservatives criticizing a Babylon Bee post: “Old school ethnic stereotype jokes are almost always at least mildly amusing.”
  • “Old school ethnic stereotype jokes are almost always at least mildly amusing. I don’t think I’ve ever heard one that wasn’t at least kind of amusing. It’s a classic. Like, these are classics for a reason.”

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