…so…on the one hand it’s sunday & in a sane world that would mean taking it easy & this ought to be nice & short…but on the other hand…do we get to claim we’re in one of those?
[…which reminds me…if you click the little number that keeps count of the comments right under the title you can jump this whole mess & land at the bottom like it never intruded into your day…just sayin’]
Two U.S. senators, a Democrat and a Republican, are working to attract support for a vote to censure former President Donald Trump now that it appears the Senate is unlikely to convict him on the House impeachment article.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-consider-censure-alternative-impeachment-trial-in-view-of-likely-trump-acquittal
…& it is, too…of the 21 “maybe” votes on that WaPo count only 12 come from the GOP side of things…& we know several of those voted to say they’d sooner ditch the whole proceeding & treat it the same way they did the emoluments stuff
The point of comparison for the Senate as McConnell has shaped it is the middle of the 20th century, when a conservative coalition of Republicans and Dixiecrats made the chamber a graveyard of liberal legislation and social reform. Consensus didn’t matter. Power did. And it wasn’t until liberals wrested power from this coalition — in the House as well as the Senate — that they could take the initiative and begin work on an otherwise popular agenda.
There is no question the Senate is supposed to be slow, even sluggish. But it’s not supposed to be an endless bottleneck. The framers wanted stability in government, not stagnation. What we have now, with the filibuster intact, is a Senate that can barely move.
This isn’t just a problem for President Biden and the Democratic Party; it’s a problem for the entire constitutional order. Our system is built around Congress; Congress makes laws, Congress holds the purse strings, Congress hands out mandates, Congress checks the president and makes sure the judiciary stays in its lane.
When Congress doesn’t act, other actors take up the slack. The story of our democracy these last 10 years is, in part, the story of how a listless, sclerotic Senate broke Congress and pushed the other branches to govern in its stead, with the president and the courts making as much policy as they can without congressional input, with all the capriciousness, whiplash and uncertainty that can come from that.
I’m Not Actually Interested in Mitch McConnell’s Hypocrisy [NYT]
…do nothing until they run out the clock to a point where they can claim the time for doing anything is passed
“The GOP faces a battle for its soul.” [WaPo]
…glaring evidence be damned
Three weeks ago, the unthinkable happened in America: Pro-Trump activists stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Except for many, it was quite thinkable. It was thought aloud in some cases.
As former president Donald Trump faces his second impeachment trial, Republicans are generally doing everything they can to avoid engaging on his actual culpability in sparking the insurrection. They’ve instead made process arguments, such as saying that convicting him now that he is out of office would be unconstitutional.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/28/who-could-have-predicted-capitol-siege-plenty-of-people-including-trump-allies
Federal prosecutors investigating the violent riot at the Capitol this month announced their first conspiracy charges against the Proud Boys on Friday night, accusing two members of the far-right nationalist group of working together to obstruct and interfere with law enforcement officers protecting Congress during the final certification of the presidential election.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/nyregion/proud-boys-charged-with-conspiracy-in-capitol-riot.html
Actions by Proud Boy at Capitol show ‘planning, determination, and coordination,’ U.S. alleges [WaPo]
Tracking the Oath Keepers Who Attacked the Capitol [NYT]
Pipe bombs found near Capitol on Jan. 6 are believed to have been placed the night before [WaPo]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/29/dawn-bancroft-capitol-riot-pennsylvania-pelosi
Two Proud Boys arrested over Capitol attack, including one who smashed window [Guardian]
When die-hard supporters of President Donald Trump showed up at rally point “Cowboy” in Louisville on the morning of Jan. 5, they found the shopping mall’s parking lot was closed to cars, so they assembled their 50 or so vehicles outside a nearby Kohl’s department store. Hundreds of miles away in Columbia, S.C., at a mall designated rally point “Rebel,” other Trump supporters gathered to form another caravan to Washington. A similar meetup — dubbed “Minuteman” — was planned for Springfield, Mass.
That same day, FBI personnel in Norfolk were increasingly alarmed by the online conversations they were seeing, including warlike talk around the convoys headed to the nation’s capital. One map posted online described the rally points, declaring them a “MAGA Cavalry To Connect Patriot Caravans to StopTheSteal in D.C.” Another map showed the U.S. Congress, indicating tunnels connecting different parts of the complex. The map was headlined, “CREATE PERIMETER,” according to the FBI report, which was reviewed by The Washington Post.
“Be ready to fight. Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in,” read one posting, according to the report.
‘Be ready to fight’: FBI probe of U.S. Capitol riot finds evidence detailing coordination of an assault [WaPo]
The Capitol Attack Was a Failure of Policing, Not Architecture [NYT]
Law enforcement knew but did not act. An FBI report the day before the Capitol was stormed quoted one extremist preparing for battle: “Get violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready for war,” according to an account in The Post.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-us-is-finally-catching-up-to-the-domestic-terrorism-threat/2021/01/29/story.html
[…]
Even the Capitol Police, which allowed the mob to breach its security perimeter, saw an attack coming but couldn’t mobilize to stop it. The Post quoted from an internal Jan. 3 intelligence report: “Congress itself is the target on the 6th . . . there is the possibility that protesters may be inclined to become violent.”
…so in addition to probably not paying anyone dumb enough to represnt him
There was a consistent message from Ukraine’s leadership over everything from the Trump campaign’s dirt digging to Ukraine’s central role in the first impeachment proceedings: No comment.
But now, as the Biden administration settles in, some close allies of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky are opening up about one of the longest-running dramas from the Trump era — the blitz of meetings, messages and public statements in Ukraine by former president Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.
Ukraine stayed quiet during Trump-era pressures. Now it’s sharing some Giuliani tales. [WaPo]
[…]
The new disclosures from Ukraine do not offer any bombshell revelations about Giuliani’s dealings. But they help fill in some blanks on his frantic — and unsuccessful — quest to press Ukraine to make statements seen as potentially helpful to the Trump reelection bid.
[…]
Ukraine’s willingness to discuss Giuliani’s forays also lands at a difficult time for the former New York mayor as he faces mounting personal battles, including a $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over alleged false claims about ballot rigging in the 2020 election.
The goal is to present the Senate with fresh evidence that reveals what Trump knew in advance of the Jan. 6 rampage at the Capitol, as well as how his words and actions influenced those who participated. The rioting left five dead, including one member of the U.S. Capitol Police. In addition, two officers, one with the D.C. Police Department, have since died by suicide.
The effort to present new video evidence and witness testimony appears designed to make Republican senators as uncomfortable as possible as they prepare to vote to acquit Trump, as most have indicated they will do. The prospect of injured police officers describing the brutality of pro-Trump rioters to Republicans who regularly present themselves as advocates of law enforcement could make for an extraordinary, nationally televised scene.
Yet the strategy appears to be on a collision course with the Senate, where Democrats and Republicans alike have expressed reluctance to allow witness testimony in the interest of limiting the trial’s length to about a week. Both parties are eager to move past the final days of Trump’s presidency, with Democrats hoping to turn their attention to President Biden’s ambitious legislative agenda, and Republicans hoping to shift attention away from their standard-bearer’s role in the shocking riot.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-democrats-building-elaborate-emotionally-charged-case-against-trump/2021/01/29/story.html
…does the cheap crook in question even need a lawyer for this thing?
Trump Parts Ways With Five Lawyers Handling Impeachment Defense [NYT]
…because this kind of thing
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Controversies Are Piling Up. Republicans Are Quiet. [NYT]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/29/cori-bush-office-safety-marjorie-taylor-greene
…is entirely backwards
Now imagine the thing that needs to be fixed is rampant misinformation and debunked accusations that are exacerbating political tensions in the United States — which led to violence at the U.S. Capitol and threatens to spur more violence elsewhere.
The Republican Party has gotten used to the misinformation and baseless claims going on six years after Donald Trump first announced his bid for the presidency. It knew that QAnon had been infecting its political base for years and, last year, understood that the rise of QAnon-embracing Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) in Georgia’s 14th Congressional District was a problem. Axios has new reporting to that end, with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) even calling her primary opponent and acknowledging the risk her election posed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/29/hoarders-theory-of-republican-politics
The Republican party will not disavow Marjorie Taylor Greene – she is the party [Guardian]
Greene was “exactly the kind of fighter needed in Washington to stand with me against the radical left,” declared Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), a founding member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus. Debbie Meadows, who ran an influential political action committee and whose husband, Mark Meadows, became Trump’s chief of staff, gushed, “We cannot wait to welcome her to Congress.”
[…]
Greene, meanwhile, hired an advertising consultant who had once said the NAACP is “the Black KKK, only more violent and dangerous.” She spent $211,000 to advertise on Parler, the social media site that attracted adherents to QAnon, according to Federal Election Commission records. The next highest amount spent on Parler by a congressional candidate last year was $1,400. Parler declined to comment.Now, Republicans have rewarded Greene with a coveted seat on the Education and Labor Committee, a post that she probably could not have won without the acquiescence of her onetime critics, McCarthy and Scalise.
How Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, promoter of QAnon’s baseless theories, rose with support from key Republicans [WaPo]
[…]
Some Republican leaders, just as they did during her campaign, have once again expressed outrage at her comments, even as they stand by their decision to put her on the Education and Labor Committee.
…so it’s hardly surprising they’d be trying to take a look at the courts
President Joe Biden and Senate Democrats are vetting civil rights lawyers and public defenders to nominate as judges, embarking on a mission to shape the courts after Republicans overhauled them in the last four years, according to senior party officials and activists.
Democrats have a wafer-thin Senate majority that gives them control over appointments. They believe they have two years to make their mark and fill a growing number of vacancies before the midterm elections, where the party in power historically loses seats.
[…]
In addition to forming a new commission to study structural changes to the judiciary, the Biden White House has asked senators to recruit civil rights attorneys and defense lawyers for judgeships. Officials who work on the issue say they’ve seen an outpouring of interest and have begun holding sessions to offer information and advice on navigating the confirmation gauntlet.
[…]
Many Democrats remain furious about Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell’s refusal to let them fill a Supreme Court vacancy months ahead of the 2016 election, an extraordinary move that he followed by confirming a conservative justice the week before the 2020 election.“I call it repair the courts,” Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., a senior member of the Judiciary Committee, said in an interview. “We have to make sure that we are filling vacancies with credible, neutral, fair-minded judges, rather than the political operatives that we saw so many of in the Trump years.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/after-trump-democrats-set-out-on-mission-to-repair-courts
…but, let’s face it…the displays of potentially-lethal stupidity on are by no means restricted to republican judges & politicians
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/30/anti-vaccine-protest-dodger-stadium
…& while this kind of thing remains possible
“I don’t want to upset you, but there is some bad stuff on the internet,” Mr. Babcock recalled his father saying. Someone, somewhere, had written terrible things online about Guy Babcock and his brother, and members of their 86-year-old father’s social club had alerted him.
Mr. Babcock, a software engineer, got off the phone and Googled himself. The results were full of posts on strange sites accusing him of being a thief, a fraudster and a pedophile. The posts listed Mr. Babcock’s contact details and employer.
[…]
Mr. Babcock, 59, was not a thief, a fraudster or a pedophile. “I remember being in complete shock,” he said. “Why would someone do this? Who could it possibly be? Who would be so angry?”Then he Googled his brother’s name. The results were just as bad.
He tried his wife.
His sister.
His brother-in-law.
His teenage nephew.
His cousin.
His aunt.
They had all been hit. The men were branded as child molesters and pedophiles, the women as thieves and scammers. Only his 8-year-old son had been spared.
Guy Babcock was about to discover the power of a lone person to destroy countless reputations, aided by platforms like Google that rarely intervene. He was shocked when he discovered the identity of the assailant, the number of other victims and the duration of the digital violence.
A Vast Web of Vengeance [NYT]
[…for those that avoid the NYT…short version is one vidictive lady has been villifying swathes of people for years on a scale that seems like it ought to be implausible but sadly isn’t]
…boiling the whole thing down to the section 230 stuff seems like it isn’t going to cut it…& the flipside isn’t looking a whole lot prettier
The epistemic coup proceeds in four stages.
The first is the appropriation of epistemic rights, which lays the foundation for all that follows. Surveillance capitalism originates in the discovery that companies can stake a claim to people’s lives as free raw material for the extraction of behavioral data, which they then declare their private property.
The second stage is marked by a sharp rise in epistemic inequality, defined as the difference between what I can know and what can be known about me. The third stage, which we are living through now, introduces epistemic chaos caused by the profit-driven algorithmic amplification, dissemination and microtargeting of corrupt information, much of it produced by coordinated schemes of disinformation. Its effects are felt in the real world, where they splinter shared reality, poison social discourse, paralyze democratic politics and sometimes instigate violence and death.
In the fourth stage, epistemic dominance is institutionalized, overriding democratic governance with computational governance by private surveillance capital. The machines know, and the systems decide, directed and sustained by the illegitimate authority and anti-democratic power of private surveillance capital. Each stage builds on the last. Epistemic chaos prepares the ground for epistemic dominance by weakening democratic society — all too plain in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
We live in the digital century during the formative years of information civilization. Our time is comparable to the early era of industrialization, when owners had all the power, their property rights privileged above all other considerations. The intolerable truth of our current condition is that America and most other liberal democracies have, so far, ceded the ownership and operation of all things digital to the political economics of private surveillance capital, which now vies with democracy over the fundamental rights and principles that will define our social order in this century.
This past year of pandemic misery and Trumpist autocracy magnified the effects of the epistemic coup, revealing the murderous potential of antisocial media long before Jan. 6. Will the growing recognition of this other coup and its threats to democratic societies finally force us to reckon with the inconvenient truth that has loomed over the last two decades? We may have democracy, or we may have surveillance society, but we cannot have both. A democratic surveillance society is an existential and political impossibility. Make no mistake: This is the fight for the soul of our information civilization.
The Coup We Are Not Talking About [NYT]
[…it’s not comfortable reading but that one might be worth checking out…or failing that maybe read the lady’s book – Shoshana Zuboff is a professor emeritus at Harvard Business School and the author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.”]
I checked Apple’s new privacy ‘nutrition labels.’ Many were false. [WaPo]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/28/facebook-oversight-board-cases
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-s-first-oversight-board-rulings-overturn-four-of-five-cases
[…& letting a certain double-impeached ex-president that never won a popular vote back into their playground is on their docket…so…that’s…yeah…pretty much what you expected, I’m guessing]
…& even without the pandemic-related stuff to contend with
10 days of struggle: Inside Biden’s early coronavirus vaccine effort
Biden team scrambles to find 20m vaccine doses Trump reportedly failed to track [Guardian]
Facebook is allowing users to profit from the spread of potentially dangerous false theories and misinformation about the pandemic and vaccines, including deploying money-raising tools on pages with content flagged up by the social media giant’s own fact-checkers.
An investigation has found 430 pages – followed by 45 million people – using Facebook’s tools, including virtual “shops” and fan subscriptions, while spreading false information about Covid-19 or vaccinations.
The findings come despite a promise the platform made last year that no user or company should directly profit from false information about immunisation against Covid-19.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/30/facebook-letting-fake-news-spreaders-profit-investigators-claim
[…]
The research, by the London-headquartered Bureau of Investigative Journalism, is likely to have uncovered only a tiny snapshot of the vast amount of monetised misinformation on Facebook related to the pandemic and vaccines.
[…]
Some of the pages identified in the investigation also directed their followers to more extreme content that has been largely scrubbed from social media.
[…]
Groups spreading information flagged by fact-checkers as false have also used Facebook to fundraise. The Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN), a US non-profit, is one of the most well-funded organisations in the US opposing vaccinations.
[…]
Yet despite removing the Highwire page, Facebook still allows ICAN to solicit donations from its more than 44,000 followers on a page that has had at least two posts flagged by fact-checkers. According to its page, ICAN has raised almost £24,000 since February 2020.
…we have some pressing concerns that require a baseline of veracity when it comes to mass dissemination of the relevant facts
Dizzying pace of Biden’s climate action sounds death knell for era of denialism [Guardian]
How Many Americans Are Homeless? No One Knows [NYT]
The federal government collects data on evictions from public housing authorities. But it has little to no eviction information on the private rental market, where the vast majority of American renters live.
The Black Hole at the Heart of the Eviction Crisis [NYT]
…damn…I had more…but I feel guilty on account of it’s sunday…& pretty much all of that stuff sucks…plus I’m running out of time before this is meant to be up…so…maybe you’d rather listen to this?
…or try & remember what janis said
…because I don’t know as the alternative is anything to brag about?
trumps legal team fucking off right before the hearing is pretty funny
ultimately meaningless i guess…but still pretty funny
Makes a lot of sense though. Raw Story reports that Trump is demanding that his legal team focus on the false narrative of the “stolen election,” rather than trying to argue that impeaching a former president is unconstitutional. There are a ton of problems with Trump’s “approach,” including 1. it’s bullshit, 2. it can be shut down immediately as not relevant to the case, 3. attorneys are not supposed to introduce known lies into testimony and can be punished if they do, 4. Trump associates are rapidly becoming professional lepers and I think are getting frightened about committing career suicide, 5. Trump has no money and doesn’t pay contractors, and 6. I truly think that most normal people are just utterly tired of Trump’s bullshit. Normal people means “not MAGAs.”
So if the orange asshole keeps demanding “prove the election was stolen,” the only thing anyone who’s not absolutely crazy can do is say, fuck it, I didn’t sign up for this shit.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-impeachment-2650217947/
Rudy, Rudy, Rudy!!! Bring him on! If not Trump is going to be his own lawyer which would be almost as entertaining but less human candle melting & more Jerry Springer.
That was my first thought. But doesn’t Trump owe Rudy money? I guess Rudy’s stupid enough to fall for the scam again. But y’know, Rudy’s got his own problems:
https://www.rawstory.com/rudy-giuliani-insurrection/
The Lincoln Project has given Rudy until Wednesday to retract his defamatory statements. Gonna cut into his legal prep time. By the way, the first pay of that letter is delightful.
“Page.” First page.
Rudy prepare? America’s mayor & greatest lawyer to ever believe he is the greatest lawyer needs no preparation! He is on the side of truth and justice. He doesn’t need payment, he will get that in heaven (probably sooner than any of us think!)
donnies never gonna back down on that claim….he’d have to admit he lost then and worse than that admit to being wrong about something..
i dont see it happening..and his normal tactic of flatout denying anything was said/done isnt an option here
sooo…i guess hes shit out of lawyers
not that hes gonna need them as the GOP will shield his orange ass
Also, by admitting he lied or was just plain wrong seriously jeopardizes his main source of cashflow–the knuckledragging rubes who send him what little money they have of their own.
Oh, he never will, that’s true. Problem is, his perceived grievance only tangentially even touches the charges he’s facing. It’s like saying, “Yes, your honor, I stole the Ford Escort, but that’s because Ford wrongfully fired me!” And the judge would say, “Guilty.”
But only if the judge isn’t a Republican.
Oh man, I got nothing, it was too cold here yesterday to do anything but bundle up and hang out on the couch, catching up on the news is brutal.
I have a theory on the missing vaccines. I believe that Trump’s team sent them to loyalist states or even other countries to either give out or sell. My sister has Facebook friends all over and the ones in some very red areas like Alabama & Mississippi seem to be saying it’s been easy for them to get shots (they wouldn’t qualify in most states). They could be bullshitting because they are Trumpers or??? I think Florida got way more than they should of but because they are Florida, they either let them spoil or just passed them along to the Palm Beach set. Will be interesting if we ever find out where they went since the only records not destroyed or never created were probably written in crayon.
Or given to donors and friends.
It would be nice to think that this kind of shit might actually cause some legal problems now that our bad example in chief is gone but I have little hope of this being punished…
https://juanitajean.com/oh-ted-it-looks-like-you-stepped-in-something/
I doubt it, too. Campaign funds are basically “legal” money laundering schemes, and I don’t see anyone having the will to do anything about it. To be fair, Trump left so many dumpsters on fire that addressing this is gonna be WAY down the priority list anyway.
There are many things you can do with campaign funds, but the restrictions carry some decent penalties. Duncan Hunter Jr. was busted and would have suffered worse if not for the pardon.
After the financial fraud, one of the most promising avenues for prosecutions is going to be campaign finance violations. It’s an area where it is not that hard to flip people on higher ups IF they are willing to spend the time to build a case. Traditionally that investment has been the biggest barrier to prosecutions, but I think the incentives are a lot higher than usual now.
It’s also an area with state jurisdiction, which can be a big problem for national campaigns.
Good lawyers can go a long way toward hedging risks. Trump had Giuliani by the end.
I think the corporate retreat from GOP donations may be driven from legal fees as much as PR. I think they may be worried as much about being investigated as public knowledge.
Regarding that corporate retreat from GOP donations…keep in mind that it really is mostly PR. All they’re doing is stopping their regular corporate PAC donations, which really don’t amount to much in the grand scheme. They aren’t doing shit to restrict all of their executives from continuing to pour limitless amounts of money into Super PACs.
Right after an election is also the time they donate the LEAST to campaigns anyways and as soon as we get closer to elections or they need something it will be back in play.
I’m guessing the recently “retire” Captiol Cops chief and leadership at the time needs to answer a lot of questions.
Incompetence only goes so far especially in light of their reaction/planning during other protests (cough BLM cough cough) It’s not just the DOD that let them hang out to dry. It’s also their leadership. The fact that the Capitol Cops were woefully unprepared for something they knew about means the Capitol Cops at the leadership level were involved with on some level. How much? Don’t know.
I suspect that certain (Capitol Cops) leadership were told by a few Treasonous brothers in blue that they were going to show the Dems what it meant to fuck with their brother cops and side with BLM. Those leaders (angry cops and wingnuts) went “okay” but were stunned what to discover what the Treasonous wingnuts really meant which made them feel even worse after one of their own died in the insurgency.
At least this is how I see it. Maybe (more than likely wrong.)
I read most of the NYT article on that slandering hag, and it shook the shit out of me. I immediately googled myself and luckily found nothing, but it’s scary as fuck that that kind of shit can happen
…it really is…even after it’s been shown she’s got mental health issues & that the stuff she’s putting online about these people is utterly fabricated & 100% malicious these people still can’t get it gone
…in a way that’s scarier than she is
incidentally..why are the republicunts called the gop anyway?
ive run the numbers and found that absolutely none of gop is in republican
kinda figured they’d be called reps…just like democrats are dems..and socialists are socks…
and does libs refer to liberals or libertarians?
shits confusing yo!
GOP = Grand Old Party
…although to be fair they ain’t that grand
…so I tend to think of it as being at least a bit ironic these days?
And “Libs” when R’s are saying “own the Libs!” or “Pwn the Libz!” means liberals (aka anyone who’s progressive, or frankly nowadays, typically they’ll use it referring to *anyone* who falls leftward of the very far right🙃)
This week’s been a busy one, so I haven’t been online as much, and don’t know if this was already talked about yet, but DAAAAAAAAYYYYYUM y’all!!!
The first pic, at this HuffPo article just…. it DID.NOT.COMPUTE.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60159495c5b63b0fb2814ca6
Councilman Holsome is flashing the *White Power* sign.😳🥴🙄🙃
He’s a 3%er, into the Oathkeepers, Boog-ideaology, AND a POYB’er…
As a Black Man.
*IT DOES NOT COMPUTE*!!!!!
Like, HOW?!?!??? How do you NOT see ANY of the White Supremacy running like goddamned lifeblood through those groups?!?!???????
I just CAN NOT understand how anyone can…. i guess, maybe be SO blinded by fear & hatred, that they can’t SEE that the side they’re supporting, in many cases, would–quite literally–like to see them (at worst) wiped off the face of the earth… and at *best,* driven OUT of our country, and relegated to destitution & poverty in another part of the world.
There’s “small town, backward,” and then there’s THIS level of absolutely fucked-up.🙃🙃🙃
*IF* we can de-program the Trump cultists, it’s gonna take years, y’all…
And that’s a HUGE damn *IF.* 😕
And regarding that Alex Jones & the Publix lady thing…
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-vaccine-site-disparities-ss-prem-20210129-zbww6vquyrht7gg532pwn4fdwu-story.html
It’s very interesting, that Publix so recently became FL’s main/sole distributor of Covid Vaccines, just a short time after that… iirc 100K donation to the Governor.🤨🤨🤨
Now the ties to Jones (and the Trump admin), especially in light of the OTHER Florida Covid shenanigans related to the former state scientist/researchers who’s being sued for starting her OWN Covid-tracking/reporting site, after high-ups at the state asked her to fudge numbers.
I have the feeling we’re eventually gonna learn about ALL sorts of money-laundering, racketeering, hush-money, illegal contributions, straight-up bribery, and scamming of public funds.🤔
Because in his warped mind he feels he’s white. Nothing more nothing less.
I’ve seen that in a small way with my aunt and uncle, last I heard were Trumpers or we’ve seen with any non white folks in the Trump Admin (Ajit Pai and Kash Patel among them.)
That second link may be behind a paywall, so just in case, here are some other links;
https://www.bradenton.com/news/business/article248805275.html
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/coronavirus/fl-ne-vaccine-site-disparities-ss-prem-20210129-zbww6vquyrht7gg532pwn4fdwu-story.html
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/editorials/2021/01/31/desantis-publix-only-plan-palm-beach-county-vaccines-falls-short/4293138001/
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/palm-beach/fl-ne-publix-vaccine-rollout-criticism-20210126-mwlta7s62ndnfdv42bhkas2o5q-story.html