The Amy Acton Vivek Ramaswamy Ad Scandal is Pathetic
PDS Published 10/20/2026
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This Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswami situation is sickening. It's exposed a lot. It could genuinely change everything. Headed into the midterms. you've got polymer getting slammed for letting people bet on rape charges.
With celebs also now getting dragged into the what's really going on with Trump in Ukraine right why this million dollar PSA Heights is people freaking we're talking about all of that.
And even more on today's brand new Philip DeFranco show.
You daily dive into the news, starting with this Amy Acton, Vivek Ramaswamy situation is genuinely because you have these two in a race
To become the next governor of it is a surprisingly tight race in a state that Donald Trump won by 11 points in 2024.
Right now, two weeks before the election, you have this viral video coming out of Acton's mom calling her a liar and telling people not to vote for and all of that's actually even crazier than it sounds.
But a little background Acton is a doctor who has become widely known for running Ohio's Covid response as the director of the state's Department of and over the years, both she and her brother Phil Stearns have repeatedly detailed
The hunger, neglect and abuse that they said they faced under their mother's custody after she and their father got and specifically during an interview with The Vindicator back in 2019,
You had Acton claiming that her mother, Donna Arthur, regularly uprooted them, moving the family to around 18 different places in her first 12 years, including one that was literally just a bare bones
You would act in claiming that at one point the family was even homeless, living in a tent on a campground inside of Youngstown, Ohio during the But that eventually Donna Arthur married a man who Acton said
Had been previously accused of molestation and started abusing her between the ages of nine and while she didn't provide any more details in that particular article,
The National Review obtained documents showing that Acton stepfather, Cletus Arthur was charged with having sexual contact with her in 1978 when she was 12 years old,
But he skipped town after being indicted by a grand with also the Columbus Dispatch finding an archive copy of the Youngstown Vindicator from that time where
The outlet reported that Cletus Arthur had been arrested for the rape of a 12 year old girl following an investigation initiated by the girl's so after that.
Acton said that she moved in with her biological father and his family, and claimed that the last time she saw her mom was in the courthouse after they were And she added that her mom actually stuck with the husband whom
Her daughter had accused of rape, and both of which skipped town on But then what you had is that about a year later, that at an interview with the anti-choice group Operation Rescue, where she accused
Acton of exaggerating an outright lying about the details of her childhood reclaiming that they were never homeless and always had food to she also disputed the number of times they moved,
Saying that they were only in about a half a dozen different and definitely most significant.
Donna Arthur accused Acton of lying about the rape, saying that her husband had a daughter from her previous marriage who had earlier made similar unfounded any better implying that Acton,
With the help of her biological father, used those allegations to fabricate her Donna Arthur, claiming that she personally was never charged with any crimes.
But she sided with her husband in court and then left town with him after their attorney recommended that they move away until things could come down and charges could be while it's unclear right now
What ultimately happened with those charges, you had the Columbus Dispatch indicating that Cletus Arthur was never convicted because he fled Ohio.
While it's not connected to that case, it's worth noting at the National Review also reported that Donna Arthur has a criminal history of her own, including pleading guilty to theft by deception in the 1990s and being accused of animal abuse as recently as 2021.
But regardless, you've had Acton and her brother stern sticking to their story, including in this video her campaign posted earlier this Amy's my big sister.
It was a tough childhood.
We had all sorts of forms of abuse, received a lot of abuse, but Amy always got the worst of it.
She continued to receive that abuse because she knew she had to protect me from from but the reason that we're talking about all this today is that mom, Donna Arthur has now gone absolutely viral.
Amos. Darla. Arthur. And I'm Amy, Athens mother.
I worked at Children and Family Service Association building, one of the first two sexual abuse programs in America.
I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying about her opponent. It's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem.
She is a liar. She lies about her past. She says she grew up living in a tent.
None of that is true. She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help and she can't help you if she needs help herself.
People can change. But first they have to tell the truth. And my daughter still isn't doing that. Don't vote for people who lie.
Don't let her become your governor. If you think she'll make your life better, you're fooling yourself. It will only get worse. Okay.
So first of all, as of right now, we do not know where that came from or who made that it was first shared by Ohio political blogger D.J. Burns, who runs a substance called the rooster.
You also have him playing on Facebook that the video is an attack ad that Ramaswami campaign was currently polling.
But it also doesn't appear that he's provided any details about how he obtained the video or those specific details.
And while it certainly feels like a campaign ad, you may have noticed that it doesn't have any of the usual legal disclaimers at the end saying who paid for the or which would generally be required if it came from Ramos
Swami's campaign or an outside group backing although if this is just an ad that they were testing, it is possible that those disclaimers wouldn't be attached And her team hasn't seen anything to indicate that it's actually been aired officially
But despite that, you would act in claiming that Ramos campaign is behind the with her campaign, issuing a statement from her brother It's not surprising that Vivek Ramaswamy is stooped to such a despicable low
As to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at 12 years old from our birth mothers husband into a political talking and adding.
After he was arrested and Amy and I were removed from their custody, our birth mother stayed married to Amy's rapist until he saying this desperate, disgusting
Attack reveals exactly who Vivek Ramaswamy is at his a pathetic excuse for a man who is willing to hurt anyone as long as it gets him what he And you also attacked in herself echoing that in an interview.
I won't normalize somebody who has said that my childhood is something I'm just complaining about.
Who today just released an ad using my birth mother, who I was removed from at the age of 12 for severe abuse and neglect and sexual abuse.
My brother and I were the words are leaders use matter.
And I think it's going to take courage right now from all of us to stop normalizing the sort of rhetoric right in
It is true that Ramos, when he did say that acting, was complaining about her alleged rape and abuse. We have a chance to elect a governor who? I hope I'll lay it out for you.
A positive vision for our state versus a governor who has none, and all other than to complain about what someone else did to
And while as of recording, multiple outlets have not been able to independently establish who is behind the video.
You did have a spokesperson for Ramos Homies campaign we don't know what happened between Amy and her mother, who first spoke out about Amy in 2020,
But we know that Amy Acton is a serial fabulist who has some serious problems with the truth that the public needs to be aware of before deciding who to entrust as adding Vivek wants his election to focus on solutions.
But Amy Acton is repeatedly lied about Vivek and his family, misrepresented her own record and hidden from debates and within, some, taking that as an implicit admission that the campaign was behind this, and noting that the statement doesn't actually deny right.
And with all this, the response online has been one side, you had Republicans and Ramaswami supporters trying to paint this video as this massive bombshell that's going to totally upset the governor's or which multiple polls show Acton narrowly leading.
There's a lot of neck and you also had a ton of people hitting back, noting that the video leaves out the fact that this woman literally abandoned her children for a man who was charged with raping her
Saying the video it tries to paint her as a credible witness while leaving out the accompanying abuse allegations that both her children have made against and so.
Overall, some even arguing that this video might actually just blow up in Ramaswami face.
It might but as far as how this is going to impact the election, we're going to have to wait to because all the reactions, all the polling, none of it really matters unless you go out and so let this be your daily reminder to get the fuck out there and vote early.
Voting started in a lot of places. Go to vote. Make a plan.
Know where you're going to also really never been a better time to hit up your normie friends who do not keep up with politics normally and go An election happening right now.
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Let's do this right.
But then to jump from that to other news that's popping off right now, it's kind of very serious political news.
The very interesting the rising star of the Democratic Party, Indiana's Jamie West is standing ten toes down on her viral fire.
All Republicans comment from last May be unpopular with some voters, some voters, but is in the best interest of the county.
Firing all Republicans I wouldn't let them. I mean I don't even talk to him.
I don't like but then there's these maggots who are just racist and aren't very intelligent at all.
Your opportunity to say just a few last words to to the voters. We have guns. Do.
So no, not an SNL skit, but rather the actual Democratic candidate for Fayette County Council District after you had that clip making the rounds going viral.
Yet a lot of people having a lot of mostly a how many drinks did she have before this event?
And B, will there be some kind of attempt at damage control or will she lean into and well yesterday we got some answers because she appeared on Piers Morgan Show for an interview about that viral
And you had Morgan grilling her about her alcohol intake or opinions about Republicans and her personal relationships.
And I have to this is one of those cases where the sequel is just as good as the original. I had a Chorus Line. I had a beer.
One beer Jamie, here's your chance to be completely honest and transparent. How many beers did you have? All right. Three.
Is there anything you said whilst under the influence of your beers that, you know, with the benefit of hindsight, maybe wish you hadn't said no?
I say it all the time. I'm not friends with them. I don't like them. Okay. They voted for all of this that's happening to our country.
Are we have a constitutional crisis? I've been fighting this fight for ten years, man.
I've been going to the state House to beg my Republican politicians who have in control
Of Indiana for 20 years not to take away our public funding, our public schools, our emergency services that we need. So there you have it.
Even though West admitted that she was three beers in during that TV forum, she stands by. Just fucking hate in Republicans.
But as it turns out, there is one Republican that she is okay with and that is her partner. Who?
As it turns out, she calls her husband, but apparently they are not legally Actually, my husband is a Republican. He's a conservative libertarian.
Have you fired him yet? No, we don't talk about politics. But I've got his I mean, you sleep with the Republican.
Not technically married. We've been together about 14 years. Do you? I hate to be personal, but do you have sex with your husband?
Common law.
Well, do you have sex? And This is actually one of the other reasons I love local politics.
A lot of the people are not even the slightest bit media like it genuinely feels like old school YouTube.
Except these are people who like, control and so with all this, you're seeing all kinds of reactions to both her bold stances and the slurred
There, I'll know that West claimed that she had not had a single drink before the Piers Morgan interview, but still, you had some people questioning that, saying she still sounded well, you know, you have a lot of people out there that are just kind of laughing at this, enjoying the memes there.
There also are a decent chunk of people who seem to find West genuinely for example, one person commenting on that interview This bitch is drunk as fuck and she's still making more sense than Trump or MAGA.
At least she's others echoing that sentiment and comments on the original TV forum, and another person also comparing her to saying they are going to hate this woman.
She talks like Trump, but on the complete opposite end of the that's as you saw some out there saying, they loved her brutal honesty, ranting about the Republican leadership out there, you know, calling it a contrast to dem leadership, saying shit like, we need a strong Republican Party.
And well, Jamie is definitely a specific, unique person, this whole situation does kind of touch on people increasingly valuing authenticity from their political candidates.
Someone who's not afraid to push boundaries and take on the of course, at the same time, there are very valid concerns about the alcohol situation not everyone is buying what West is Early voting.
It's already started in Fayette County, and local reporters there visited a polling location last week to ask voters what they thought about West's initial viral and their people reportedly saying things like, it's pitiful that we have candidates like that saying she just ramble.
She don't say anything worth listening to. She just rambles another local saying she did seem a little off.
I don't think she knows what's up and that's also as you head west claiming that she's heard from a lot of people who are excited to vote for I will say, as entertaining as the situation has been
For a lot of different people all over the far as Jamie in this election cycle, she's very likely not going to be voted not even because of this whole situation.
The county she is running in in 2024, they voted for Trump 77.5%.
Anything you know seems possible this election cycle, you know, there are still limits to And then there's even more we get to dive into in just a minute.
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After allowing people to wager on the Cornell because they reportedly had a market where people could bet on whether or not any of the men accused in the lawsuit of raping Jane Doe will face felony sex crime
An yesterday there was over $450,000 on that market, which was at a 28% as you had no shortage of people that were furious that Polly Market was allowing wagers on
With gender justice organization Ultraviolet putting out a statement saying, Polly Market wants you to bet on rape and arguing that this could actually undermine Jane Doe legal saying what happens if people
With influence over a rape case, judges, lawyers or jurors place bets and then try to shape the saying even if they aren't betting themselves?
What if the odds displayed in Poly Market sway their opinions?
And you had a survivors rights organization adding, what kind of person looks at a sexual assault case and sees an opportunity to make what kind of company decides to give them that opportunity?
What message does this send to every survivor of sexual assault to the student deciding whether to report to the child, afraid no one will believe with others online
Just calling it disgusting and accusing polymer of gamified and profiting off of but also it's not just poly market that's facing the You've also had many calling out sports organizations like the MLB
Who are official partners with Poly Market, condemning the league for working with this and that's on top of people calling out the many celebrities who have now promoted polymorphic
And appeared in their people like Eli Manning, Derek Jeter, LeBron James LeBron James alone.
He's reportedly being paid $15 million a year to rep the prediction so with all this, you had a lawyer and an activist Now.
Poly market is known to be a soulless corporation with pretty much no moral boundaries.
But to every celebrity that's taking tens of millions of dollars to promote this platform, is this really what you want to be associated with?
It was far as Polly Market, you had them defending themselves to front office Claiming that markets bring better, unbiased information about important events and contrast the disinformation we're all drowning in,
Which too often leaves the public misled and disillusioned to the point of but also, as of this morning, it appears the market has taken the wager those still in its international market.
It allows you to bet on other aspects of the story, like whether or not Cornell's president will resign or be But the celebrity backlash here is interesting because it comes as there has been mounting criticism
For pretty much anyone who's taking prediction market and in fact, just a few days ago, you had the LA times publishing this big op ed arguing that celebrities who she'll for sports betting
Are the modern Marlboro and calling out not just the people promoting Poly Market, but people like Sydney Sweeney who have these very viral promos of Novik. They apparently have equity.
Timothy Shalom, who has done ads with Corsi, and athletes like Tom Brady, who appeared in general sports betting commercials for Bet with that piece saying, in the mid-20th century, tobacco companies
Paid sports heroes and movie stars to hawk their cigarette brands in a campaign to portray smoking as part of a happy and healthy lifestyle rather than as a gateway to addiction, disease and premature
Saying back in 1950, athletes salaries were fairly modest in many players took a job in the off season to make ends But then, adding with the net worth of many recent stars in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, it's hard to imagine them facing similar straits.
It's when it comes to people like LeBron, he's the first active NBA player to become a Sydney Sweeney, she's considered one of the highest paid actors of her generation.
And Tom Brady, he's actually currently making more as a commentator than he did as a player with a $375 million you're talking about people who by no means need more
But they're still taking these checks to promote platforms that cause the general public to lose tons of but then also putting the celebrities aside, these Cornell seven wagers, they highlight another major issue when it comes to prediction
With the concern of can they potentially influence our legal and with that, earlier this month with the Wall Street Journal doing this big report on how courts are trying to figure out how to handle people that are betting on jury Right.
Over the summer, people have had a lot of money.
On how Lindsey Clancy's trial was going to turn out, and even more has already been spent on Tyler Robinson's upcoming so you've got the president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers when the public treats
A courtroom like a casino, due process is susceptible to with some concern that jurors and court staffers following deliberations could place
Others also worried that these markets could influence how a jury sees a Or, say, juror is leaning towards not guilty, but the market says 98% favor guilty.
Does that cause them to question I will say since it doesn't feel like these markets are going to be properly regulated, these are very likely going to be situations and problems
That we're going to have to deal with relatively and of course, I say that, as we've already had numerous controversies and scandals involved in insider trading and more.
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But then jumping from that other news, we've got to talk about Donald Trump and because their relationship. It's been this roller coaster.
Of course, one of the big low points was last year when Trump and fans just did this bullshit.
You're gambling with World War three, and what you're doing is very disrespectful Have you said thank you once it's been?
Since then, things between Trump and Zelensky, they seem to cool down with the meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly and Trump even imposing new sanctions on is the midterm elections of approach.
Trump's been looking for anyone to blame for high gas prices except himself, and so he's increasingly settled on Zelensky. Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine.
They haven't been doing frankly, Zelensky is not helping matters much. I think he doesn't want to stop it. But I want to see people not die.
I think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine, a Trump.
He backed out of sanctions on Russia and gas two days before they were set to take effect, which, by the way, is arguably illegal.
Because those sanctions were passed overwhelmingly by our Congress last month and signed into law by Trump himself. Then with an executive order, he just went.
Never also, a week earlier, you had Trump announcing a deal to import millions of tons of diesel fuel from with the matting that Russia and Ukraine had agreed not to attack each other's energy infrastructure.
But of course, Russia kept attacking Ukrainian energy. So Ukraine retaliated as well. But who did Trump get mad at? Definitely not Russia.
Zelensky could have settled this war many times, many, many times.
And he he chooses not we told them, do whatever you want, but don't hit the diesel fuel because there's a big problem, big shortage.
And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. I think it's time for Ukraine to get a new president.
And well now it looks like Trump may be punishing Ukraine for not just surrendering to Right.
Because there are reports that Pete is holding back Patriot interceptor missiles from being sent to with officials saying he's neither formally rejected the aid nor approved it.
And so the Ukrainians are, I guess, just stuck in limbo. Also, here's one of the crazy things. These missiles aren't even coming from the US. Right. At least some of these are owned by other allies who want to give them to Ukraine.
But because the US manufactured them originally has to approve any transfers to third parties.
And as you might imagine, he's not the most eager to give them away willy nilly, even if his boss wasn't crashing out on that's because Patriot missiles, they caused some $4 million a pop.
They take up to three years to produce new ones.
And the Iran war is to pleaded stockpiles to critical if they're being withheld from Ukraine just because of gas prices, as many believe, that's kind of these are defensive weapons, not something being fired into Moscow or Russian oil refineries.
When these missiles don't get transferred, people die. Innocent people, civilians, children, infrastructure gets blown up.
Millions of people lose electricity, transportation stops, food supplies to get according to reports, Russia's plan right now is to make Ukrainian cities
Unlivable by the which is why they've been targeting infrastructure critical for heating and water but also putting the Patriot missiles aside for a moment.
It's even worse if the Ukrainians don't know when Russian attacks are coming in the first for weeks now, Zelensky's complained that Ukraine isn't getting an early warning about Russian drone and missile strikes, which they normally get from U.S.
Intelligence, or with him.
Writing yesterday, once again, there was a Russian ballistic missile attack in several waves overnight, and once again, there was no warning from our with Zelensky adding
We have welcomed literally every attempt by our partners to end this war with saying it is very important to call things by their proper names.
We must call the aggressor an aggressor and help Ukraine protect lives, saying when deliveries of missiles for Ukraine's air defense are blocked while Russia receives sanctions relief or delays.
This is unfortunately a denial of reality on the part of our partners. You've got this coming. His reports, including from Zelensky himself, have previously claimed that U.S.
Officials threatened to cut off intelligence unless Ukraine stopped attacking Russian but as far as Marco Rubio, he's insisted that these reports, they're just
I saw somebody associated with the Ukrainian government say that people in Ukraine are dying because the US is denying them information. That's scandalous, that's outrageous.
That's just simply not true. That's not it's also not just the missiles or the intelligence.
Satellite internet has reportedly been restricted for Ukraine as The source is saying that Star Shield, the version of SpaceX's Starlink that Ukraine's military uses, suddenly stopped working for soldiers in the
That means that air defense personnel couldn't intercept drones and missiles and attack drone operators couldn't go after Russian positions. Right.
So for example, Ukraine uses internet connected interceptor drones that normally reach speeds of over 180mph.
Officials saying that they were suddenly limited to just 100mph or with one Zelensky's advisers posting.
It is obvious that this move cannot be a coincidence and is linked to the current political don't a post on Twitter, you had Elon Musk shifting the blame,
Writing Star Shield systems are owned and controlled by the US saying any limits on speed or usage are decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS.
But also as far as Elon, he has publicly agreed with Trump that Zelensky has gone too far in attacking Russian energy, even though Russia keeps attacking Ukrainian
So he's feeding just as much into the big lie that Ukraine is somehow the obstacle to peace, not you with Trump really taking that line to absurd lengths yesterday.
You know what? We've given a lot to Ukraine. They've given nothing to us. Remember We've given a lot to Ukraine. They've given us nothing.
But as you've got people like historian Timothy Snyder explaining that is wrong in both the narrow and the broad Right. Narrowly.
Ukraine has been providing battlefield intelligence to the United States from the beginning of the war, and it even sent hundreds of its own experts to the Middle East to help protect Americans from Iranian but broadly, Ukraine has contributed to world security.
And Snyder listed some right, pointing out that they're defending the basic principle of international law and defending Europe from Russian aggression,
Also adding that they're making both World War II and nuclear war less likely by demonstrating the difficulties in offensive operations and thereby deterring China from invading
Then lastly there defending the ideals of freedom and democracy against oligarchy and autocracy. Into it.
Snyder concluding that Trump's statement is not only unjust, it is not only a lie, it is a big lie whose purpose is not to describe the world,
But to change it, to blame the victim and assist the aggressor, to betray the ally and destroy the alliances.
To create a world in which everyone must feel unsafe except the wealthy and powerful.
A world in which all that matters are the personal feelings and personal feelings of a handful of oligarchs and dictators. And then from that, we've got three more things we've got to dive into today.
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We've got a few things to talk about, starting with this, a nearly million dollar heist just rocked the trading card world. Because you would.
Thieves breaking into a Fedex truck left unattended for over an hour outside of Santa Ana headquarters. With the card grading giant. And they made off with over two and a half pallets of freshly grated Pokemon.
Sports. Magic The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
And while the official cost of the stolen goods is about $1 million, police still need to figure out what's missing from half a pallet so that number could skyrocket. And for some of the people here, the losses are substantial.
Prominent creator Sky be revealed.
His entire 104 cards mission, worth over $100,000, was wiped out in a single package on that truck.
Also other victims who reported losing serialized one of one autographs and vintage grails.
And it's left collectors wondering how a fortune and high value cards was sitting unguarded in a parking lot.
And no PSA confirmed the break and they quickly pointed out the truck was a third party carrier vehicle. So the items were technically no longer in their physical possession.
And the PSA promising to reimburse victims based on fair market value up to the insured limit and deactivated those certification numbers to stop
Resales, collectors are slamming this response as lackluster, many arguing that cash doesn't actually replace irreplaceable historical cards.
In part because in the collectible space, it's not uncommon for cards to literally be the only one out there. Like irreplaceable.
So, there's a belief that even if it was stolen from a Fedex truck, PSA should have had better transporter security for the facility. I'm saying at this price point, it's shocking. They don't have armored transports.
They're making matters worse, as the PSA is allegedly not honoring the value of stolen cards.
Or some customers claim that PSA offered to refund the fees, degrade cards which are already obscene, and ensured market values.
So in one email, they offered around 4500 bucks, but the poster claims that the number covers the fees alone and not the value of the cards on top of The key thing here
Is that the thefts in this space, they're becoming more and more common as the value of collectibles has been skyrocketing. With that, PSA is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into new facilities.
And they're hardly the only player in that space.
And on a more local level, it's increasingly common for vendors and collectors alike to go around armed because robberies at card show parking lots, they're increasing, getting followed home.
It's becoming more and more common. And now we're getting high sun delivery trucks.
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And then also in the news, you got this massive legal and culture war that's going on right now between Japanese audiences and the rest of the world, all because of a fan
Made mod of Tekken Because, well, the game has been unavailable on storefronts for years.
It still has a cult following, and so a fan updated it with modern online capabilities for the community.
And then things blew up with one of Japan's biggest pro fighting game players going viral after writing the pirated version of Tekken that thing crosses the line way too much.
And saying that he's horrified that no one overseas is raising negative voices about in general, there's a very real sentiment that people are breaking the law.
They need to be punished, and that's but then the other side of the argument has essentially boiled down to let us by the like it's just not available to buy. Otherwise people say they so you've got some arguing.
It's not really piracy if the company isn't actually losing but then the counter-argument you saw play out was that playing old games is bad because it means you won't buy new games,
And that cuts into profits, so it is still stealing from the and in general, like looking out there, there was just an ocean of difference in world
Especially when it comes to what is legal or Japanese fans in the debate, they essentially argue that this broke Japanese copyright the law is the law. So too bad.
Stop but you've had others pushing back that something being the law doesn't make it morally not to mention that copyright law in places like the US are very different from Japan and that these mods usually don't break copyright so you've got the underlying debate.
Still is preserving and distributing a no longer publicly available game really then your final bit of news today starts with a did this MAGA influencer really get kicked out of again.
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Paxton rally for being because that's what you've got a lot of people saying after Thelma Louise posted this was just asked to leave this event and I did nothing wrong.
I was told that Ken Paxton's campaign manager didn't want me here. I have done nothing but support everyone on the Republican side.
And this is how I get So Louise is over 200,000 followers and she makes content from the perspective of a conservative black you are saying that she drove two hours to that rally.
She started filming the content the moment she got there, and she seemed genuinely excited to show her it looks like things have barely even gotten started before she was on her way And there's no one that I can talk to about that. I'm sorry.
No, ma'am. Oh my gosh. I cannot believe this.
Someone just came up to me and said that Kim Paxton's campaign manager wanted me to leave.
Am just. My mouth is wide open right now. I cannot believe that.
I really can't believe this right now. And what you would Thelma seem to be genuinely surprised.
You had a lot of people saying, why do you expect anything People commenting, being MAGA while black 293. Others joking conservative whites excluding black people?
I've never heard of such a You would lose basically brushing those comments Was I the only black woman in the building? Absolutely I was.
Have I also been a Ken Paxton supporter? Absolutely. Right.
And Thelma, she switched over to the Republican Party two years ago, supporting Trump and his candidates ever since, which is also why she was so shocked by then with that.
Apparently she was later told that Paxton's team mistook her for a paid agitator from James Talarico there she said she doesn't know what to and she's also claiming that she'll be talking to Paxton directly about all this apparently there, she's looking for a public apology.
But then even with that, she is still doubling down on her am in no way leaving my party and I plan on completely voting red.
But that my friends. Your beautiful bastards is the end of your Tuesday's thank you for watching. Lacking being a part of these daily dives into the news. If you want more to watch, I got you covered right but no matter what you do.
Let me just say I love you faces. And I'll see you right back here tomorrow.
