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  #2907073 26-Apr-2022 19:31
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quickymart:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/25/politics/mark-meadows-texts-2319/index.html

 

Where to now for Mark Meadows. I don't think he'll work in government ever again.

 

 

Unless it's Trump's government, in which case he's a shoe-in for White House consigliere again.

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  #2907091 26-Apr-2022 20:58
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Trump has to win again first - looking at it that way, all bets are off.


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  #2907107 26-Apr-2022 22:50
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"Why Can’t These Republicans Remember What They Did on January 6th?"

The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

Many Republicans, including Rick Perry, Kevin McCarthy and Marjorie Taylor Greene have been hit with the new phenomena of “January 6th Amnesia,” where they seemingly cannot remember planning, talking about, or even how they felt about the insurrection


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  #2907108 26-Apr-2022 22:56
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kingdragonfly: "Why Can’t These Republicans Remember What They Did on January 6th?"

 

 

It's the Jewish Space Lasers again, they've wiped everyone's minds with them!

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  #2907109 26-Apr-2022 22:59
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I had a look at her Twitter feed, it's quite funny reading the responses to her wah-wah-woe-is-me tweets:

 

 

 

 

 

I thought she would have been banned from Twitter (like Trump was) for playing a part in the January 6 riot?


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  #2907675 27-Apr-2022 19:41
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On sale on Amazon: "Silent Invasion"

New York Times book review: "Silent Invasion” Deborah Birx’s Excruciating Story of Donald Trump’s Covid Response

On March 2, 2020, Dr. Deborah Birx took up her new position as coronavirus response coordinator within the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
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within her first week, she sat in a meeting, prepared to hear ... the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, present detailed data showing where the virus was in America at that point ... What she and her colleagues got was a one-page C.D.C. handout, lacking any granular detail. ... It wasn’t the last time Birx would deliver a face-palm reaction, literally or figuratively, to her new colleagues and bosses.

She did that to Trump himself, somewhat more discreetly, on April 23, 2020, as she sat against a side wall in the White House briefing room while he extolled, before assembled reporters, the idea of using disinfectant chemicals taken internally as a possible treatment against the virus. Did he propose that Americans drink bleach? It wasn’t clear that he didn’t. If such disinfectants could kill SARS-CoV-2 on a tabletop, as Trump had been told, why not?

“Knocks it out in a minute,” he said. “One minute.” So perhaps the doctors should try injection. “It would be interesting to check that,” the president opined, with no sign of joking (as he claimed later).

Birx froze, hands clenched on her lap. You can see her there even now, in video preserved on YouTube. “I looked down at my feet and wished for two things: something to kick,” she writes, “and for the floor to open up and swallow me whole.”
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When Trump turned to her for comment on the potential benefits of disinfectant, and also of some form of sterilizing light — sunlight or beams of pure UV radiation or who knows — she answered, “Not as a treatment.” Birx didn’t, as she had hoped, vanish through the floor, but she did vanish from the flow chart of White House influence around that time.

The daily news conferences ended, and she found herself marginalized throughout the rest of her tenure as task force coordinator — right up until Jan. 19, 2021. Why did she remain in the job? Because Trump and his political advisers didn’t want to fire her, which could have caused some bad publicity during an election year, and she didn’t want to quit. “I am not a quitter,” she writes, one of many self-testimonials with which she bolsters herself throughout the book.
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  #2907695 27-Apr-2022 21:12
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Only slightly off-topic ...  🙂

 



 

The Guardian - Sarah Palin faces formidable opponent in Congress run: Santa Claus

 

27 April

 


The bearded city council member in North Pole, Alaska, backs Bernie and champions child welfare. Could his new workshop be in Washington?

 

Sarah Palin announced her candidacy for Alaska’s only congressional seat this month, entering a race with dozens of candidates. She certainly brings name recognition to the contest – but another contender may have her beat in that department.

 

His name is Santa Claus.

 

He lives, of course, in North Pole – a town of about 2,000 in Alaska.

 

He has a big white beard and a kindly manner, and Santa Claus is indeed his legal name, though, as a Bernie Sanders supporter, he does not exploit elf labor. 

 

He won a city council seat in 2015, to the delight of observers around the world. Now he’s ready to take his political career to the next stage.

 

He’s running to complete the term of the long-serving Republican congressman Don Young, who died last month at age 88. A special primary will be held on 11 June.

 

As for Claus’s politics: he’s been called “a bastion of blue on a city council as red as Rudolph’s nose”. 

 

He says voters who look at Sanders’ policy platform can get a pretty good idea of his own, including support for Medicare for All, racial justice, corporate accountability, and free and fair elections. ...

 

 

 

 

"A snowflake's chance in hell" springs to mind.  🧐





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  #2907872 28-Apr-2022 12:12
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The Guardian - Proud Boys member pleads guilty for role in US Capitol attack

 

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A member of the far-right Proud Boys group on Wednesday pleaded guilty to obstructing police officers when he joined the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of then-president Donald Trump ...

 

The plea agreement filed in federal court in Washington, DC, calls for Louis Enrique Colon of Missouri to admit to a single felony charge and cooperate with prosecutors.

 



 

slowly chipping away ...





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  #2907876 28-Apr-2022 12:32
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Sideface: Louis Enrique Colon of Missouri

 

 

Colon. No shit.





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  #2907976 28-Apr-2022 17:02
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The Washington Post - Trump says he feared being pelted with ‘very dangerous’ fruit at rallies

 

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Former president Donald Trump said he feared protesters would hit him with tomatoes, pineapples and other “very dangerous” fruit at his campaign rallies, declaring in a sworn deposition that “you can be killed if that happens.”

 

Trump’s comments about the potentially lethal effects of projectile produce were made public Tuesday with the release of excerpts of 4½ hours of videotaped testimony in a lawsuit filed by a group of protesters who allege that Trump’s security guards assaulted them in 2015.

 

I wanted to have people be ready because we were put on alert that they were going to do fruit,” Trump said in the October 2021 deposition.

 

He added that “tomatoes are bad” and that “some fruit is a lot worse.”

 

 

 





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  #2908061 28-Apr-2022 22:32
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I saw that, dear God. He's scared of fruit? I guess fruit is more forceful (physically) than lies and misinformation and bigotry. I also remember him saying he would pay anyone's legal fees at his early rallies if they beat up/injured a protestor. Did he ever actually pay anything out though?


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  #2908369 29-Apr-2022 14:36
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He also considers cans of soup as a clear and present danger, on par with windmills.

He later expanded this soup danger to Goya Foods products and Bumble Bee tuna fish.

From 2020:

“And then they have cans of soup. And they throw the cans of soup. That’s better than a brick because you can’t throw a brick. It’s too heavy, But a can of soup, you can really put some power into that, right? And then when they get caught, they say, ‘No, this is soup for my family.’ They’re so innocent. This is soup for my family.”

“And you have people coming over with bags of soup — big bags of soup. And they lay it on the ground, and the anarchists take it and they start throwing it at our cops, at our police, And if it hits you, that’s worse than a brick because that’s got force...And then the media says, ‘This is just soup. These people are very, very innocent. They’re innocent people. These are just protesters. Isn’t it wonderful to allow protesting?' No.”


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  #2908388 29-Apr-2022 15:54
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  #2908389 29-Apr-2022 15:54
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kingdragonfly: He also considers cans of soup as a clear and present danger, on par with windmills.

 

And this is the guy who was in charge of America's nuclear arsenal!

 

 

 

 





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  #2908410 29-Apr-2022 18:06
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https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/redistricting-2022-maps/?cid=rrpromo

 

This map from 538 is interesting, shows the redistricting and what's happening everywhere. Of special note is Florida, where Ron is trying to chop it up so the Democrats are basically shut out of there.


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