President Donald Trump has hinted at the possibility of somehow serving a third term in office.
A Republican House member introduced a resolution to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow President Donald Trump — and any other future president — to be elected to serve a third term.
Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced the measure days after Trump was sworn in for a second non-consecutive term in the White House.
The 22nd Amendment currently bars anyone from being elected to more than two terms.
Rep. Andy Ogles blamed a staff member after deleting the highly-offensive post.
Christopher Wiggins at The Advocate:
Republican Rep. Andy Ogles of Tennessee posted a message on X on Tuesday declaring that "homosexuality has no place in America" before deleting it amid criticism from Democrats, LGBTQ+ advocates, and fellow members of the GOP.
The Republican congressman published the message on Tuesday, the second day of Pride Month, adding, "Happy Nuclear Family Month." The post referred to a nonbinding resolution signed by Gov. Bill Lee in April that defines a nuclear family as "one husband, one wife" and their children.
The backlash was immediate.
Ogles later deleted the post and blamed a staff member, saying in a statement that he was working on his farm when his phone "began going crazy" over a post that he claimed was made by a member of his communications team.
"The post was stupid, hurtful and a complete distraction from my America First focus," Ogles wrote, adding that the employee had been reprimanded.
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Rep. Mike Lawler, a New York Republican, called the statement "absolutely idiotic," writing that Ogles has family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and constituents who are gay and lesbian.
Homosexuality exists. In America,” Lawler wrote. “It doesn't make them less than or somehow unworthy of being an American.”
Another Republican, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, also distanced himself from Ogles' message. Speaking to TMZ on Capitol Hill, Cruz said that "for all of recorded history, homosexuals have been part of humanity" and added that "the behavior of consenting adults is their business."
Earlier this week on X, Rep. Andy Ogles (R-TN) a vile anti-LGBTQ+ post stating that “homosexuality has no place in America” in support of the “Nuclear Family Month” declaration. Ogles later deleted the post.
The Super Bowl has come and gone, but conservatives just can’t stop obsessing over Bad Bunny. They didn’t manage to stop him from performing
Lisa Needham at Daily Kos:
The Super Bowl has come and gone, but conservatives just can’t stop obsessing over Bad Bunny. They didn’t manage to stop him from performing, and they certainly didn’t manage to pull better ratings with their pathetic little alternative halftime show. So now, it’s time to try to get Bad Bunny and the NFL in trouble instead, by tattling to the Federal Communications Commission.
Come on, guys. This is just sad. You’ve been at this for months.
Shortly after Bad Bunny was announced as the 2026 Super Bowl halftime performer, conservatives figured they could flex their cultural might and derail the show entirely just by howling about it and also threatening to have Immigration and Customs Enforcement there to deport … Puerto Rican citizens?
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So we’ve got GOP Rep. Mark Alford, who didn’t watch the whole thing and doesn’t speak Spanish, but is sure that everything was “much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction.”
We’ve got the reliably stupid Rep. Andy Ogles saying that the performance was “dominated by sexually explicit lyrical themes and suggestive choreography” and “explicit displays of gay sexual acts” and “openly glorified sodomy and countless other unspeakable depravities.”
The “gay sexual acts” of which Ogles speaks seem to be limited to a brief moment of two men grinding, which, despite this administration’s best efforts, is not actually illegal. Ogles’s concern about lyrics promoting “unspeakable depravities” seems to have been reached because he did a google of Mr. Bunny’s lyrics rather than paying attention to what parts of songs he actually performed and realizing it did not include the explicit parts that so terrified Ogles.
Ogles is just aping Rep. Randy Fine, who also did a google to find some Bad Bunny lyrics and then just insisted that is what was performed. Per Fine, he’s tattling to Brendan Carr, Trump’s reliable attack dog at the FCC, because “Puerto Ricans are Americans and we all live by the same rules.”
Apparently, Fine understands the citizenship status of Puerto Ricans only when he wants to bring the hammer down. He should likely touch base with Ogles, however, as the latter’s take is that since Bad Bunny might be saying naughty words sometimes, somewhere, that is “conclusive proof that Puerto Rico should never be a state.”
Nanny state Republicans are hellbent on using government power to punish Bad Bunny.
