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The Douche Crew

[quote] Before the luxury travel, before the payroll padding at taxpayer expense, before the sexually suggestive photos and social-media messaging, they were the “douche crew,” the name 20-year-old Madison Cawthorn gave to himself and his buddies.

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[quote] This is not a story about the cascade of recent scandals falling around a Congressman apparently ill-equipped for the demands of high national office. Rather, it’s a story of the remarkable and unorthodox rise to the center of American power by a charismatic young man and his loyal posse of “bros,” despite their having no discernible experience or qualifications.

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by Anonymousreply 20May 13, 2022 4:54 PM

Of course it doesn't help that a recently leaked "sex tape" with him simulating banging his (male) cousin just surfaced as well.

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by Anonymousreply 1May 6, 2022 8:44 PM

They help him douche shit out of his ass, and they are also douchebros.

This is the only clever thing yet from this cluster of Klanner closet cases.

by Anonymousreply 2May 6, 2022 9:06 PM

MadCaw doubles down...at 2:14am

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by Anonymousreply 3May 7, 2022 8:32 PM

[quote] Just a month after he invited Cawthorn to speak at a North Carolina rally, Trump has grown increasingly annoyed and disappointed with his MAGA apprentice. The twice-impeached former president has described some of what he’s heard about Cawthorn’s latest woes — and the online sexual imagery associated with it — as “gross,” according to two sources who’ve heard Trump speak about the matter in the past couple weeks.

[quote] Over the past three weeks, someone (or some group) has shared personal videos of Cawthorn engaged goofing in sexually suggestive antics with the apparent aim of raising questions about his sexuality to North Carolina voters. Cawthorn has pushed back by dismissing the videos as years-old attempts at humor, saying their release is part of a plot from “the left.”

[quote] Trump, for one, is not impressed. “Trump is not at the point of pulling his endorsement, but the [former] president says he wants to sit back and see what happens,” one of the sources recalls. “But he’s been disappointed with Madison, and thinks he has problems handling his [public relations],” specifically with the video and photos that have surfaced.

[quote] The other source said that lately Trump had voiced bewilderment and disgusted confusion about what he’d been told of the flood of leaks and footage, asking at one point in recent days if one of the allegations was that Cawthorn was “fucking his cousin?” (That is not one of the allegations. Instead, Cawthorn’s cousin, who is also on his staff, appears in some of the videos where sex is discussed.)

[quote] Former “President Trump is completely weirded out by the allegations,” a third source, a Trump ally, bluntly relayed to Rolling Stone. Cawthorn’s office did not reply to several requests for comment. A Trump spokesperson did not provide comment on this story, either.

[quote] The recent lack of outward, vocal support from Trump has left Cawthorn — facing a seemingly unending series of scandals including, insider trading allegations, multiple firearms violations, and leaks of sexually charged videos — vulnerable to attacks from his many mainstream Republican enemies. And he’s facing defections even from among the MAGA faithful.

[quote] “What I find interesting is that no one’s really coming out and defending him on a national level. The Marjorie Taylor Greenes, the Matt Gaetzes, the Lauren Boeberts — those people aren’t coming out to defend him,” George Erwin, a former district director for Cawthorn who regrets his support for the U.S. congressman, told Rolling Stone on Friday.

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[quote] In recent years, Cawthorn had also made his share of petty enemies among his fellow MAGA politicians and candidates in the Tar Heel State, privately pitching himself to his Trumpist compatriots as the state’s true gatekeeper to the 45th president, two people with knowledge of the situation said. “He thinks he’s such a big shot,” one of the people said.

[quote] Erwin — a one-time sheriff in Henderson, NC — says he’s seen a similar pattern play out locally. “I know a lot of people that gave substantial amounts of money to him, worked hard for him, supported him and, buddy, they’re just pulling back or saying ‘no way. We’re not going there,” he added.

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[quote] “That guy is a hot mess,” said Darrell Scott, an Ohio pastor and MAGAland stalwart who occasionally advises Trump on 2022 candidates. “I think he needs to pursue another line of work in the private sector. There’s too much drama swirling around him that he has to explain. He constantly dismisses sketchy behavior by saying it was a long time ago; but he’s only 26 years old, so it wasn’t THAT long ago…I have nothing personal against him; I just don’t think he needs to be a ‘new face’ of the party with all of the photos and videos coming out. It’s hard for established politicians to stand next to him.”

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by Anonymousreply 4May 9, 2022 12:35 AM

They are going to get worse than him.

by Anonymousreply 5May 9, 2022 12:58 AM

Inside the Republican campaign to take down Madison Cawthorn

[quote] The 26-year-old congressman has, in his few years in politics, sparked public outrage with his support for former president Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, inflammatory speeches, repeated driving and gun infractions, and even a nude video. But his falling-out with top Republicans in North Carolina and Washington also arose from more humdrum blunders such as neglecting constituent services and insulting party elders, according to GOP officials and operatives in the state.

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[quote] “There are so many people saying crazy things these days and people shrug their shoulders, but it was more of the personal behavior that people started to view him as immature and erratic,” said Jim Blaine, of the firm, Differentiators, who says his group’s polling shows Cawthorn dipping in popularity and Edwards rising since March. “He would be a modern-day Icarus, except he flew into the sun.”

[quote] Even Trump, who endorsed Cawthorn during a visit to Mar-a-Lago in March 2021, may be distancing himself from the embattled freshman. At an April rally in Selma, N.C., Trump touted his endorsement of Ted Budd for Senate and Bo Hines in another House race, but of Cawthorn said only, “He’s a great guy.

[quote] “No matter whether he wins or not, he’s severely damaged,” said Isaac Herrin, a Republican field organizer in the district. “The knives have come out because he has not been a friend to the people of his district who helped put him in office, and he has not been a friend of some of the people in North Carolina who hold political power.”

[quote] Cawthorn and Tillis didn’t have a strong relationship to start with, but the tension between them took off at a Republican Party meeting in Macon County, N.C., in August. Addressing a crowd on the front porch of the county GOP headquarters, and brandishing a three-foot-long 12-gauge shotgun, Cawthorn called Tillis “a terrible campaigner” and “a complete RINO”

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[quote] “I thought he was a shining star, like he was perhaps one of the up-and-coming stars of the party,” said Aubrey Woodard, a former local party official who’s thrown his support to Edwards. “I’ve not been impressed. The only thing we see coming from him has been something that we’d really rather not be involved in or hear about.”

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by Anonymousreply 6May 10, 2022 8:43 PM

It's not a take down when it's his own fucking behavior doing him in. No one is manufacturing evidence or trapping his dumb ass into anything. He keeps making the wrong/illegal choice, over and over.

That's not a takedown, he's just a moron.

by Anonymousreply 7May 10, 2022 9:11 PM

[quote] asking at one point in recent days if one of the allegations was that Cawthorn was “fucking his cousin?”

Things like this makes me wonder if Trump is a secret DL poster? People on here are anonymous, we talk about all the celebrities he used to hobnob with, and we love gossip. Plus I think he loves it when people say horrible things about him. Data Lounge would've been paradise for him after the twitter ban. He could even afford the $1.99.

by Anonymousreply 8May 11, 2022 12:14 AM

Do we need a thread on this asshole every five minutes?

by Anonymousreply 9May 11, 2022 12:16 AM

That's a bingo!

by Anonymousreply 10May 11, 2022 12:21 AM

[quote] The scope of Cawthorn’s troubles is broad, the implications transcending mere politics. More than 70 interviews with people who know Cawthorn, who have worked for him and against him, allies and enemies, activists and operatives and longtime watchers of politics here in the mountains of western North Carolina, paint a picture of a man in crisis. Cawthorn, they say, is an immature college dropout with a thin work resume, a scofflaw and serial embellisher who was neither qualified nor prepared for the responsibility and the scrutiny that comes with the office he holds. They describe him as a person whose ongoing physical pain and insecurities have made him unusually susceptible to the twisted incentives of a political environment and a Trump-led GOP that prizes perhaps above all else outrage and partisan attack.

[quote] “He’s not OK,” said Michele Woodhouse, the former Republican chair of the 11th District who’s now running against him. “He’s very unwell,” said a Republican strategist familiar with Cawthorn. “The recovery is not complete,” said David Rhode, a fellow Hendersonville native who knew Cawthorn pre-politics but now works for Wendy Nevarez, another one of Cawthorn’s current opponents. “He’s got some deep issues that will probably never go away,” said Chuck Archerd, a Republican who ran against him in 2020. “It’s never going to be just totally fine,” said a friend.

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[quote] awthorn is a member of Congress because he got 18,481 votes in a primary, which was 1,016 votes more than the candidate who finished third, which was enough to get to a runoff, which he won. “Charisma and sympathy,” said a North Carolina GOP consultant working for one of his many opponents, “in a very, very low-voter-turnout election.” Really, though, Cawthorn is a member of Congress because he didn’t run as the person he’s been since he won.

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[quote] “Madison is in a lot of pain,” said Rhode, the Hendersonville native who knows Cawthorn but is working for Wendy Nevarez, another of the candidates running against him.

[quote] “A lot of folks I’ve talked to, they think when he was in that accident there was something that happened to him beyond his physical impairment,” said Erwin.

[quote] “Based sort of on my background as a minister, largely I see him as a young man who has been through a very traumatic, life-changing event and who has been politically radicalized by the far right, in a way where he also gains access to significant power and resources, and who’s now deploying that influence in very dangerous ways,” said Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, who’s running in the Democratic primary explicitly to try to “defeat insurrectionist Madison Cawthorn.”

[quote] “We know,” she said, “that young men in particular are susceptible to radicalization when they feel isolated and invisible.”

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[quote] “What is going on with him?” Sean Hannity said on his radio show the other day. “Look,” Hannity said, “I never like to celebrate people’s decline or misery, and I don’t like to pile on — I don’t know what he’s going through — but … something is going on here, and it sounds to me like he needs some type of intervention or help.”

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by Anonymousreply 11May 13, 2022 11:01 AM

Great article. Look at Mrs. Cawthorn's frauen sign trifecta!

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by Anonymousreply 12May 13, 2022 11:27 AM

[quote]neglecting constituent services

In other words, doesn't actually do the work of a congressperson.

He's become a liability to his party, and they're letting him hang by his own rope.

by Anonymousreply 13May 13, 2022 11:46 AM

Constituent services, whatever. Did he not want to write a letter recommending someone for a service academy, because of his feelings? Didn't rename a post office? What else do these cunts do when they aren't stealing and trading insider stock tips?

by Anonymousreply 14May 13, 2022 1:57 PM

Cousin Stephen is so hot. 10/10 where do I get someone like him?

by Anonymousreply 15May 13, 2022 2:06 PM

[quote] Cousin Stephen is so hot. 10/10 where do I get someone like him?

The family reunion.

by Anonymousreply 16May 13, 2022 2:07 PM

Put a fork in him...

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by Anonymousreply 17May 13, 2022 4:15 PM

All I see in OP’s picture are three racist homophobic date rapists.

by Anonymousreply 18May 13, 2022 4:17 PM

Breaking the law, that's rich coming from a Republican.

by Anonymousreply 19May 13, 2022 4:31 PM

Now I want Maddie to stay, just to spite the Repugs. Fuck them all!

by Anonymousreply 20May 13, 2022 4:54 PM
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