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#3064153 16-Apr-2023 08:19

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A few deplorables in the news this week:https://abovethelaw.com/2023/04/after-pissing-off-every-federal-judge-in-dc-peter-navarro-will-finally-have-to-cough-up-government-docs-he-stole/ >> one of Trump's fellow insurrectionists finally has to hand over his e-mails as per process to the National Archives ("but her e-mails...")

Despite all Trump's "lock her up" talk about Hillary's personal email, she didn't encrypt them, and refuse to turn over the keys. They should be a hoot to read.

Navarro was involved in the administration's COVID-19 response. Early on, he issued private warnings, but downplayed the risks in public. He publicly clashed with Anthony Fauci and touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 and condemned various public health measures to stop the spread of the virus.

In the 2020 election, Navarro advanced conspiracy theories of election fraud and in February 2022 was subpoenaed to testify before the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. But Navarro refused to comply,

The Hill: Appeals court rejects Navarro bid to block order to turn over emails

Peter Navarro lost his bid to block an order that requires him to hand over hundreds of emails sent during his tenure as a White House adviser during the Trump administration to the National Archives.

...The panel denied Navarro’s request for a stay after he appealed a judge’s ruling last month requiring him to turn over 200-250 emails from a personal encrypted account that he’d used during his time in the Trump White House.

Peter Navarro lost his bid to block an order that requires him to hand over hundreds of emails sent during his tenure as a White House adviser during the Trump administration to the National Archives.
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#3064218 16-Apr-2023 10:50

No surprise here: he's a Republican. Maybe he should move to Utah.

Washington Post: Missouri lawmaker suggests 12-year-olds should be able to get married

...During testimony in the sate's Committee, state Republican Senator Mike Moon was asked Tuesday by a state Democrat Representative why he had previously voted against prohibiting kids to marry adults at the age of 12 with parental consent.

“You said actually that should be the law because it’s the parents’ right and the kid’s right to decide what’s best for them, To be raped by an adult.”

In response, Moon said he knew of at least one couple that made it work after being married at an age when most children are in the seventh grade.

“Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12? I do,” Moon said. “And guess what? They’re still married.”

Following some online backlash from Democrats and critics, Moon released a video Thursday to clear up the “confusion” about his remarks. After saying that he does not support adults marrying minors and emphasizing that rapists should “be punished to the full extent of the law,” Moon again referenced the couple he says he knows who married at 12 as a result of the girl’s pregnancy. The Republican mentioned this week that the couple’s marriage is “thriving.”
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#3064219 16-Apr-2023 10:58

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Following some online backlash from Democrats and critics, Moon released a video Thursday to clear up the “confusion” about his remarks. After saying that he does not support adults marrying minors and emphasizing that rapists should “be punished to the full extent of the law,” Moon again referenced the couple he says he knows who married at 12 as a result of the girl’s pregnancy. The Republican mentioned this week that the couple’s marriage is “thriving.”
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I wonder if that couple are cousins. Moon's parents probably are.

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#3064223 16-Apr-2023 11:13

Note that Fort Lauderdale Florida's highest elevation above sea level is 2.74 m. They received a "once in every 2,000 year's rain" of 0.6 meters in 6 hours.

Florida Phoenix: With Florida counties Broward and Fort Lauderdale under water, Florida Senate panel advances ban on environmental investing

As torrential rains caused flooding in Fort Lauderdale, forcing its airport to close, a Florida state Senate committee voted Thursday to forbid state and local agencies from considering the danger of climate change when investing pension money.

The bill cleared the Fiscal Policy Committee on a 13-6 party-line vote. Its next stop is the Senate floor. Similar legislation has already passed the House.

The measure targets “ESG” investing, or considering environmental, social, and governance factors when making investments. Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing to outlaw what they consider “woke” capitalism that subordinates returns for political or ideological factors.

A democratic committee said “If you don’t think we should be looking at these issues, look at Fort Lauderdale today The flooding that is going on right now shows the dramatic economic impact that climate change can have and how it can hurt all our businesses throughout the state,” she said.

“The quote [from Desantis] was, ‘This is where woke goes to die.’ Well, I think this is where we are going not to get the best returns for our citizens.”

...Pension managers look “30, 50 years out,” Templin said. “If you can’t consider social, political, environmental, you can’t make a decision.”

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#3064505 17-Apr-2023 14:11

Clarence the grifter strikes again:

The Washington Post - Clarence Thomas has for years claimed income from a defunct real estate firm

16 April 2023

Over the last two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on required financial disclosure forms that his family received rental income totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a firm called Ginger, Ltd., Partnership.

But that company - a Nebraska real estate firm launched in the 1980s by his wife and her relatives - has not existed since 2006. ...

In total, he has reported receiving between $270,000 to $750,000 from the firm since 2006, describing it as “rent.” ...

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#3064522 17-Apr-2023 15:23

I know this bloke is probably going to be hard to impeach but he has got to go from the Supreme Court of the United States Bench where supposedly the HIGHEST standards are meant to be upheld and set.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3064783 18-Apr-2023 11:03

Anothe deplorable... Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Soon to Announce White House Run, Sows Doubts About Vaccines - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood before the Lincoln Memorial in January 2022 and condemned the federal government’s coronavirus response by railing against totalitarianism. Jews in Nazi Germany, he suggested, had more freedom than Americans facing vaccination mandates and school, church and business closures in the era of Covid-19.

“Even in Hitler’s Germany, you could cross the Alps to Switzerland,” he told a crowd of flag-waving anti-vaccine enthusiasts at a “Defeat the Mandates” rally. “You could hide in an attic like Anne Frank did.”

Mr. Kennedy later apologized, though it was not the first time he had invoked the Holocaust. Over the past two decades, as he has pursued what he calls “safe vaccine activism,” Mr. Kennedy has evolved from an environmental lawyer concerned about mercury poisoning into a crusader for individual liberty — a path that has landed him, a scion of a storied Democratic clan, in the unlikely embrace of the American political right.

On Wednesday, Mr. Kennedy, plans to formally announce that he is challenging President Biden for the Democratic nomination for president. His vaccine skepticism gives him something in common with another candidate: former President Donald J. Trump, who like Mr. Kennedy has blamed childhood vaccines for autism — a discredited theory that has been repudiated by more than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific studies in multiple countries.

Mr. Kennedy has insisted that he is not opposed to vaccines and that his sole interest is in making them safer. “I’m not anti-vaccine, although I’m kind of the poster child for the anti-vax movement,” he said during a recent speech at Hillsdale College, a conservative Christian college in Michigan.

But through his nonprofit, Children’s Health Defense, and his movies, speeches and books — including one that portrays Dr. Anthony S. Fauci as in the pocket of the pharmaceutical industry — Mr. Kennedy has used his platform and his family’s star power to sow doubts about vaccine safety, spreading misinformation by twisting facts out of context.

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#3064838 18-Apr-2023 11:20

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Anothe deplorable... Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Soon to Announce White House Run, Sows Doubts About Vaccines - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

I remember his father well. He was the last great hope of liberal America. The actions of the son make his assassination a double tragedy.

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#3064860 18-Apr-2023 12:15

I hope Joe cleans the floor up with this clown. He shouldn't be near government in any way whatsoever. I bet his Dad (and probably his uncle) would have been embarrassed to see what he's become.

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#3065139 18-Apr-2023 19:15

If you're on vacation in the US and while driving, and you get pulled over by a sheriff, before he gets out of the car, call someone and tell them what happening, and put your phone on speakerphone. This includes California, in particular Los Angeles.

NBC News: The mid-west state of Oklahoma's county leaders caught on audio talking about killing reporters, complaining they can no longer lynch Black people

The governor of Oklahoma has called for the resignations of the sheriff and other top officials in a rural county after they were recorded talking about "beating, killing and burying" a father/son team of local reporters — and lamenting that they could no longer hang Black people with a “damned rope.”

...When []the report retrieved [a recording] device, he discovered that the conversation began with a grisly conversation about a fire victim being compared to "barbecue" before the group turned to talking about [reporter's son, who's also a reporter].

"My papaw would have whipped his ass, would have wiped him and used him for toilet paper, If my daddy hadn't been run over by a vehicle, he would have been down there."

Jennings then piped in, saying "I know where two big, deep holes are here if you ever need them."
"I've got an excavator," Clardy chimed in, according to the newspaper.

Jennings, according to the newspaper, then said he knew "two or three hit men" who belong to the Louisiana mafia.

"They're very quiet guys and would cut no f---ing mercy," he reportedly said.

Manning, according to the newspaper, discussed "who would get the blame if anything was done" to [the reporter's wife].
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#3065147 18-Apr-2023 19:43

Even now I don't believe a majority of Americans think that way, but a significant number still do and that is why it is so difficult to make the kinds of changes that are so badly needed. Blacks can vote (though sometimes with difficulty) and they can run for and win office. On TV you see black mayors and sheriffs and everything in-between. Even racist politicians have for the most part learned how to speak to black people, who are also now free to eat anywhere they like. The blatant symbols of racism have been covered over but underlying attitudes remain in many corners. Until this is rooted out once and for all, the disease will continue to fester. Regrettably, America remains a deeply racist society. Even more regrettable, most Americans do not realise that.

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#3065209 18-Apr-2023 20:47

Lauren Boebert is an American right-wing politician serving as a U.S. representative for Colorado.

Anthony Fauci is an American physician-scientist and immunologist who served as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) from 1984 to 2022, and attempted to be the chief medical advisor to Trump.

Was SNL Too Mean to Congresswoman Lauren Boebert?

Jimmy Kimmel Live

Some of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s videos are so unbelievably over the top, they seem like sketches from “Saturday Night Live.”

So much so that we went out on the street and showed people clips of her actual videos, we told them they were from “Saturday Night Live” last weekend and asked if they thought “SNL” had been too mean to her.

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#3065338 19-Apr-2023 08:35

The NY Times - Fox News Settles Defamation Suit for $787.5 Million, Dominion Says

BREAKING

Fox News reached a last-minute settlement with Dominion Voting Systems, which accused Fox News of pushing conspiracies that harmed the company.

The terms of the settlement - including a monetary payout or any other requirements attached to the deal - remain unknown. Dominion had initially demanded $1.6 billion in damages.

Some critics of Fox News had hoped the network would be put through a grueling six-week trial, with its hosts forced to answer direct questions about whether they believed election fraud claims.

But this result shouldn't be a surprise. The vast majority of libel cases settle before trial, legal scholars say.

The settlement includes a $787.5 million payment from Fox, according to Dominion's lawyers. “The truth matters,” said Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson. “Lies have consequences.”

One of Dominion's lawyers, Stephen Shackelford, said the settlement with Fox isn't the end of the efforts to push back against disinformation about the company: “We’re not done yet. We have some other people who have some accountability coming toward them."

EDIT: The Fox News website has made no mention of the settlement as yet. Surprise! 😏

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#3065363 19-Apr-2023 10:02

Aw that sucks, I was looking forward to Fox being made fools of in court. Maybe they just settled so they wouldn't have to go through the humiliation of it all. Settling means they're guilty but aren't big enough to say it out loud, right? Otherwise they would have fought this tooth and nail, right? 😀

Also noticed this: https://edition.cnn.com/business/live-news/fox-news-dominion-trial-04-18-23

Dominion still has pending lawsuits against election deniers such as Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell

Dominion Voting Systems still has pending lawsuits against right-wing networks Newsmax and OAN, as well as against Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell.

All of these parties and entities deny wrongdoing and are fighting the lawsuits.

Sweet. All the election deniers chickens are finally coming home to roost.

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Smartmatic says its pending case will further expose Fox News' wrongdoing after Dominion settlement

Smartmatic, the voting technology company that is suing Fox News for $2.7 billion for defamation said its pending case will further expose wrongdoing by the right-wing network, following the last-minute settlement in the case brought by Dominion Voting Systems.

“Dominion’s litigation exposed some of the misconduct and damage caused by Fox’s disinformation campaign. Smartmatic will expose the rest. Smartmatic remains committed to clearing its name, recouping the significant damage done to the company, and holding Fox accountable for undermining democracy," said a statement from Smartmatic attorney J. Erik Connolly.

So Smartmatic are next on the radar? I hope they don't just settle, would love to see Fox's lawyers squirm in court.

Bet Trump will be absolutely losing it right now.

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#3065373 19-Apr-2023 10:13

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EDIT: The Fox News website has made no mention of the settlement as yet. Surprise! 😏

It's there now, about halfway down the front page: https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-media-dominion-voting-systems-reach-agreement-over-defamation-lawsuit

Very minimal coverage of what Fox actually did, I read it as more of a back slapping didn't-we-do-well-out-of-it type story.

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