Random Thoughts (Political Edition)

[GRtak]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/supreme-court-chertoff-leak-investigation/index.html

 

[CraigB]

We’ve Lost the Plot

Our constant need for entertainment has blurred the line between fiction and reality—on television, in American politics, and in our everyday lives.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[GRtak]

We tried to call the top donors to George Santos' 2020 campaign. Many don’t seem to exist.

The list of matters to investigate keeps growing.

www.motherjones.com

 

[jack_christie]

NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016​

The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016.

The NYT should tell readers whether it helped crooked FBI agents get Trump elected in 2016

The arrest of a high-level FBI agent on Russia-tied corruption charges raises stunning new questions about how Trump really won in 2016.

www.inquirer.com

 

[GRtak]

Iran dancing couple given 10-year jail sentence

The pair, both in their early 20s, were reportedly convicted for promoting corruption and propaganda.

www.bbc.com

 

[Momentum57]

Frederick Douglass NEVER gave a speech on Repartitions in 1865.

The College Board Strips Down Its A.P. Curriculum for African American Studies

The official course looks different from a previous draft: No more critical race theory, and the study of contemporary topics — like Black Lives Matter — is optional.

www.nytimes.com

what a bunch of morons

 

[GRtak]

 

[jack_christie]

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Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into Trump allies for 'theft' of data from laptop​

The letters from Biden's lawyers asking investigators for probes into Rudy Giuliani and others is a dramatic shift in strategy for the president's son.

Hunter Biden asks for criminal probe into Trump allies for 'theft' of data from laptop

The letters from Biden's lawyers asking investigators for probes into Rudy Giuliani and others is a dramatic shift in strategy for the president's son.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[jack_christie]

Was Charles McGonigal Putin's mole inside the FBI's New York field office?

 

[NecroJoe]

I thought I felt a disturbance in the force...

 

[Momentum57]

Biden: Capping insulin for all Americans at $35 a month, providing free community college, restoring the Child Tax Credit — which lifted almost one in three poor children out of poverty — raising taxes on corporate stock buybacks, reducing fees, including resort fees at hotels that aren't resorts.

Sanders: Life sucks. Democrats only have woke policy and wokeness, from scary wokey mcwokeface, they are so woke. Did I scar you saying woke? WOKE! One time Trump was nice. Your choice is between crazy and normal.

 

[GRtak]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/09/1155645555/john-fetterman-hospital

 

[GRtak]

Rail Companies Blocked Safety Rules Before Ohio Derailment

Norfolk Southern helped convince government officials to repeal brake rules — and corporate lobbyists watered down hazmat safety regs.

www.levernews.com

Things like this show why corporate political donations need to be stopped. When such donations can keep effective laws from getting passed, and endanger the general population, it is just pure corruption.

 

[jack_christie]

💣

Pence subpoenaed by special counsel​

Mike Pence subpoenaed by special counsel overseeing Trump probes: Sources

Former Vice President Mike Pence has been subpoenaed by the special counsel overseeing probes into former President Donald Trump, according to multiple sources.

abcnews.go.com

Pence subpoenaed by special counsel leading Trump investigations

Special counsel Jack Smith is investigating whether former President Donald Trump or his allies unlawfully interfered in the 2020 election and the former president’s handling of classified documents after he left office.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[GRtak]

More Pence news.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1154177170/mike-pence-fbi-search-home-office

 

[GRtak]

Texas AG settles with former aides who reported him to FBI

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to four former staffers who accused him of corruption in 2020, igniting an ongoing FBI investigation into the three-term Republican

abcnews.go.com

 

[GRtak]

Trudeau: US fighter shot down object over northern Canada

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Saturday that on his order a U.S. fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” that was flying high over the Yukon, acting a day after the U.S.

apnews.com

So that is now 3 balloon kills for F-22s.

 

[CraigB]

One report that I read had a statement from one pilot saying the object was messing with sensors on their plane.

 

[GRtak]

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/12/1156428862/us-shoot-down-ufo-unidentified-object-lake-huron

 

[NecroJoe]

A joke I heard on Wait, Wait... on NPR last night

The Goodyear Blimp over the Super Bowl better watch it's back tonight...