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We attended the OKC Freedom Rally Or More Accurately Five Hours Spent in a Journalist Internment Camp

6/27/2021

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I gotta say, candidate Jackson Lahmeyer put on a splash at the OKC Freedom Rally on Saturday. He must be getting financed because he rented the Embassy Suites Conference Center and the turnout was large by 2:00 pm. Around 2500 capacity it seems and the campaign claims that 2250 tickets were already sold as of Thursday.


The list of headliners is large, Lahmeyer, General Michael Flynn, and large number of pastors and motivational speakers. There is definitely a spiritual tone to the crowd.


I say tone because I and the other media folks didn't get to see much. Upon arrival some us were greeted by a pit bull of a supporter, short man in a suit. Pretty rude actually until the Lahmeyer campaign folks rescued us and escorted us to a big room with a dozen or so chairs that was being used as a stock room for someone selling t shirts in a booth in the hallway. 


June 27, 2021 at 10:50PM
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More Trump Index Legislation

6/20/2021

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Thelist of legislation passed this year is as staggering as always. As we dig through the legislation you have to wonder about a system designed to allow thousands of laws to be passed each year and the ever growing pile of laws that sometimes are used to protect society, sometimes used to bleed taxpayers dry, and most usually designed to benefit those that are bribing, uh... giving donations.... to the legislators. Here are a few more bills that are just despicable and run contrary to President Trump's vision of America.


HB 1849 is a bill that would have granted a sales tax exemption for PTA type groups. Sales taxes add to the cash that schools receive already in one way or another, if not direct taxation then it frees up property tax going to other tax consuming entities. Governor Stitt also saw a problem and he vetoed the bill saying it further complicates an already complex tax code.


SB 273 requires any person charging a fee for the preparation or assists in the preparation of lien notices on personal property to register with the Oklahoma Tax Commission and submit a $50.00 annual registration fee. Okay, liens protect bankers and tradesmen and suppliers working on private property, so that much is good. What isn't good is the financial impact statement claims that a mere 31 people will be required to buy the $50.00 annual permit, bringing in a whopping $1,550.00 per year in revenue while it costs the Tax Commission around $120,000 to implement the new scheme.


So 31 individuals are impacted, x $50 = $1550 for a cost of $120,000 to implement the scheme. Based upon those projections, seventy seven years later, in 2098, the state will have recovered the cost of implementation..... Were the members of the legislature that voted for this smoking crack laced weed when they did this?


HB 2365 diversity program for vendors/suppliers. So women, minorities, Indians, and a few other non white categories get a leg up on everyone else in bidding for state business? Yeah there are a few bones thrown to veterans and “small businesses” which they define as less than 500 employees and 25 million in annual revenue. Small huh?



HB 2396 sex trafficking education This requires colleges and universities to offer sex trafficking prevention and prevention education to freshmen. Using non profits, no doubt paid by same edifices of higher education, greasing the skids while indoctrinating incoming college students. I think I would be smart enough coming into college not to need indoctrinating nor information that helps me stay away from the bad white men that they must be concerned about.


HB 2367 allowing underage teens to sign rental contracts if they are declared “unaccompanied” , homeless, or a victim of domestic violence or abuse. DHS or the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services or any of their myriad of contractors are allowed to declare these children able to sign a rental contract which means taxpayers paying the rent for the child. Good lord, the crack smoking sons of a bidens must be completely insane. Parents ought to be controlling these kid's lives, not the DHS or some drug program. This is all about getting taxpayer money shelled out and bureaucrats expanding their power and the size of their departments. The bill claims that the “authority” of the parents or guardians isn't released, does that mean the state comes after the parent to pay the rental costs each month? Who in the hell thought it is a good idea to give a 16 year old a way to disrupt parental control? Chances are the kid needs his ass whipped with a belt not set up in their own party pad.


SB 267 teacher double dipping bill This bill allows retired teachers to begin working for public schools again while receiving retirement payments from the state teacher retirement fund. Why? This just encourages teacher to retire early as possible then to come right back to work and be paid for teaching again. If they want to teach, why retire? Only one reason, to be paid retirement while working and fil their greedy hands with more taxpayer money. There is no reason at all to have such a wide open pig trough for the best paid state workers in Oklahoma. They want to come back to work? Okay, stop paying the retirement until they actually retire. Jesus Christ, a ten your old can understand this is insane. Retirement is supposed to be for a lifetime's work when people are to old or unable to work. All this does is increase the cost of public education and build a massive obligation that grows and grows. Education already gets over 55% of all state revenues, enough! The education most schools provide is a disaster and the idea is to give them even more money?


June 20, 2021 at 08:10PM
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Time to Hold the Oklahoma Legislators Accountable Again

6/13/2021

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Once again it is that time to select the legislation that was passed or attempted to be passed in the Oklahoma Legislature that best shows the underbelly of Oklahoma Politics.  The annual Trump Index compares these bills to how President Trump would have supported the issue.

Our philosophy has always been that this isn't a pat on the back for the legislators for what they did right.  They are expected to do what is right; the Trump Index is a list of what they did wrong.

If you have a bill that you would like to be considered please email it to soonerteaparty @gmail.com, give us the number of the bill and tell us why President Trump wouldn't have supported such legislation.

Below are some of the bills that are being considered for inclusion in the 2021 Trump Index.   As long as their is a floor vote the bill can be considered but there doesn't have to be both House and Senate votes, one will do fine as the House and Senate Trump Indexes are usually different.

2021 Trump Index bills already under consideration

House Bill 1002, by Rep. Carol Bush, R-Tulsa , extends statute of limitations on child abuse crimes would also allow up to 30 years for suits against "an entity, institution, organization, agency, firm, business, or corporation" with some responsibility for the injury.

SB838is a bad bill that sets an even worse precedent. Fire, police, and emergency medical services are among the most basic functions of a municipal government and are already funded through sales taxes. But municipal lobbyists want to free up those sales taxes for pet projects and need a new revenue stream in order to do that. SB838 will give it to them, allowing cities and towns to raise property taxes by up to 5 mills on top of county property taxes. Property tax increases don't just harm homeowners and business owners: they harm renters when those expenses are passed on to them. A No vote is correct

HB 1647    This is the bill that attempted to get the non profit soft on crime pre trial release programs on the same level playing ground as the bail bondsmen have to work with.  If a non profit wants to help turn thugs loose upon society then they need to be accountable and track each criminal they help turn loose and report if they show up for court or commit another crime while out on their supervision.  The total cost to the defendant being supervised is also required to be reported along with how much has been paid.  A Yes vote is a correct vote.

HB2645 This bill severely restricts existing Open Carry and concealed carry rights by expanding the places where guns are not allowed.   A No vote is correct

HB 2273 This bill makes it a felony to film a cop or out one for bad behavior.  A No vote is a correct vote.

SB 644  this bill gives county employees special gun carry rights that are not allowed to regular citizens.  A no vote is a correct vote.

SB 608  is another Oklahoma film credit bill that gives tax credits to those filming in the state.   A No vote is a correct vote

SB 320 releases criminals for medical reasons.  A No vote is a correct vote.




June 13, 2021 at 07:48PM
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Fake Christians and the Republican Party

6/6/2021

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For much of the world religious freedom is an oxymoron, two words that directly contradict the other. Some countries are like North Korea, where the state is their religion and no other religion is tolerated. Then there are the Islamic States such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, the Sudan, and most of the Gulf states. Persecution of Christians, non believers/atheists, even minor Islamic sects is the way of the land.

The Hindus in India simply looks the other way when Muslims and Christians alike are persecuted even butchered. Nigeria has Boko Haram who uses ethnic cleasing to clear the land for Muslims.

Dare you mention China were the second Holocast is in motion, this time against the Muslim minorities, whilst Christians and Falon Gong practiciners are used for organ harvesting. In Burma Churches are burned by Buddist monks. Closer to home, in Mexico the Church is under attack from drug cartels and indigenous activists. Even the first world countries like England and the rest of the E.U. countries see their countries indunadted with third world immigrants that declare no go zones and attack Christian Churches. Canada, well they arrest preachers and pastors there, keeping Churches closed in the name of the pandemic.

Here in American tough we still retain some measure of religious liberty. Sure there are challenges, the liberals have taken down iconic groups like the Boy Scouts and subverted many others. But our courts have steadfastly protected religious rights including the right not to bake a cake for a particularl lifestyle adherent or to provide abortion or even birth control as part of a company health insurance plan. And in America even non believers, atheists, and agnostics support religious liberty as one of the foundations of other Constitutional rights. Even the vast majority of Christians believe in pushing back against intolerance pushed by radical relgious groups, with the idea of our willingness to protect those with a different view or creed an anchor to our polite society.



But sometimes the freedom of religion hangs tenenously. The take down of Sadam Hussien as an example not only wiped out a secular leader/tyrant, it also led to an exodus of the Iraq Christian communities and trigged war between the Sunni and Shia, giving rise to al Qaeda which led to the horrific Islamic State. We should never forget that we live in a harsh and unforgiving world where religioius freedom is the exception not the norm.



Currently less than 50% of American citizens attend a place of worship and yet Christianity in general has a large influence on politics. This is down from around 70% back around the turn of the century. Part of this is due to forty years of liberal indoctrination in the public schools, part of it is due to the rise of the internet and rising incomes where people simply have more motivation for “me” instead of “we”. Culture has changed, there is no doubt, and it is a mixed bag. But there is another reason why membership and attendence to houses of worship are declining; the rise of the radical far “Christian” right and their attempts to force their version of Christianity upon a general public that is turning more and more hostile to intolerance and forced conformity.

Statistics do say that some of the decline in attendence is generational, just over one third of millennials go to church while two thirds of those born at the end of World War II still attend Church. These days fewer Democrats attend church, a quarter less, while Independents lost 18% of their attendees, followed by around 12% fewer Republican worshipers. Politics is turning more and more secular and some believe it is a backpash against the far right religioius groups. Why is this?

Partly because we have lost the culture war in particular the part dealing with gay rights. Hollywood, the media, and those that produce our TV and even high tech have long been indoctrinated to the point where they feel that following Scripture is simply wrong or unfair. Even those that do attend what I would call normal mainstream Churches believe that everyone sins and tolerance while in this world is best and let God sort things out when the time comes.

The far religioius right's numbers have not shrunk but has stayed steady at around ten to twelve percent of the voting population. People, younger people in particular, simply choose not to be anything, they simply refuse to indentify with a religion.

What hasn't diminished is the idea that a person's religious views are sacred and no one ought to be forced to provide an abortion if it is against their religioius views, have religion pushed upon their children in the government schools, or to do business with those that demand products or services that their religion calls offensive or immoral.

There is no doubt that the far religioius right feels persecuted and in some ways they are correct. But they lose the victim status when they push back and alienate others with what is seen as intolerance and bigotry. Some Churches believe they need a bogey man, an outside influence that threatens their congregation that keeps them away from the outside world lest they be corrupted or begin to question what they have been told. A friend of mine told me a few weeks ago that at one point in his life he realized that either there was something wrong with him or something wrong with the religion he had been raised under. His change from his father's faith to his new understanding of the proper role of religion took some time but it took hold.

In the end the perception always overrides the reality in life. Americans are dead set against any sort of religioius litmus test yet politicians are forced to pick a religion or suffer the oposition attacking them and declaring them Godless. We believe that there ought to be a separation between Church and State yet we are going to ask what religion you belong to when you run for office.



Politics is the art of the possible. Right now the U.S. is so polarized and indoctrinated that Trump knew he couldn't win without the far religious right, hence Pence being the choice for vice president. Yet a huge segment of the religioius right also looks at Trump askew, trying to justify Trump's personal conduct and behaviour and their own highly intolerant views. Yet in the end, there is no where else they can go. So they had to support Trump. Or they stayed home and refused to vote and watch the liberal Democrats win.



Ultimately the Republican Party has only one way forward, tolerance must trump intolerant and bigoted world views. At this year's convention over 60% were 50 years old or older and the few new faces under that age tended to be the abolitionists, wild eyed believers that think they can turn the GOP into a theocracy and roll back tolerance and decency. We saw the last GOP administration infiltrated by zealots and we are seeing these same people trying to colonize the GOP. We ought to all get involved and offset their bigoted world view and keep the Republican Party centered and politically viable.




June 06, 2021 at 10:03PM
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AG Hunter's Scandals Grow - Al Gerhart on 3D Politics Live

6/6/2021

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In this installment of 3D Politics Live..

- Al Gerhart joins the panel to discuss his research into the resignation of Oklahoma Attorney General, Mike Hunter. 

It appears that Hunter may be implicated in a bad indictment of a cabinet member for Gov. Kevin Stitt.

Al goes on to discuss how scandals often have salacious distractions and how covering up a scandal can be a worse crime than the root infraction.

Gerhart adds more background from other recent high level scandals, involving legislative leaders.


June 06, 2021 at 09:59PM
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