i
know jimmy dore and glenneth greenwald and others pimped for her. but
she proved to be a fake ass as july 2019 came to a close.
that's when the liar showed her truth.
she
was finally onstage with joe biden for the 1st time. she was the
'anti-war candidate.' she was opposed to the iraq war. jake tapper
gave her the chance to go after joe on his vote for and support of the
iraq war.
jake
gave her a second chance and she gave joe? an excuse. she excused his
support for the iraq war. and then, again c.i. called it out in real
time, she used the press she got for being a liar and political
prostitute to further excuse joe biden on the iraq war.
she
was a fake ass. and she was a fake ass exposed. and to a person, this
community walked away from her while whores like jimmy dore continued
to pimp her.
she was not anti-war. she was a fake ass.
then came march 2020 - after saying she would stay in the primaries until the convention, she dropped out.
not only did she drop out, but she also endorsed ... joe biden.
she's such a liar. november 4th she gave her speech on why she left the democratic party.
it was because the 'federal agencies' like the f.b.i. and everything were overstepping their bounds.
she's
a con artist and the member of a cult. was a time when the right-wing
christians would not embrace a cult member but things have gotten so bad
that i guess they have to fill up their memberships with what they
would have considered 'satanists' only 4 years prior.
she truly is garbage.
Monday, April 24, 2023. Crooked Clarence Thomas remains on the bench,
THE PROGRESSIVE comes out strong against the attacks on the trans
community, the Glenneth Greenwalds are upset that AOC said in an
interview that FOX "NEWS" might need to face some response for inciting a
mob but they don't care that the Republican-controlled Montana
legislature has actually silenced a trans member.
+ We now know that in addition to lavishing Clarence and Ginni Thomas
was luxury trips around the world, Harlan Crow also secretly bought
property from Thomas, including the house his mother continues to live
in, and Thomas failed to disclose the financial transactions in
violation of federal law.
+ Thomas isn’t being bribed to make decisions; he’s being rewarded
for the fact that he’d make these decisions without being bribed. So
would Alito. Yes, they’re corrupt. But their retro judicial views were
always clear & the senate approved their elevation to the high court
anyway.
+ Harlan Crow is a billionaire with a bulging stock portfolio and
vast real estate holdings. Almost everything that comes before the court
will have an impact him.
+ Does Crow collect child porn to demonstrate how much he abhors pedophiles?
+ When Ginni Thomas worked for the Heritage Foundation, Justice
Thomas checked the box “none” on his financial disclosure form for his
wife’s income. She’d actually been paid more than $686,000. When the
deception was disclosed, Thomas said it was “due to a misunderstanding
of the filing instructions.”
+ This seems like a fairly minor blunder to me, except for the fatal
fact that Thomas considers himself a “textualist”, where the precise
meaning (in 1789) of every word can be a matter of life and death. So
petard prepare to be hoisted…
+ Thomas isn’t the only recipient of Crow’s largesse. The coffers of rightwing lawmakers Texas have been infused with at least $19 million from the Dallas-based real estate tycoon.
+ Cory Doctorow:
“The reason the rich pour money into campaigns to stoke divisions among
working people isn’t because they get off on hatred. The hatred is a
tactic. The cruelty is a tactic. The strategic goal is wealth and
power.”
Calls for impeachment proceedings against U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Clarence Thomas intensified Thursday amid new reporting that revealed
several specific conflicts of interest related to the justice's
financial ties to right-wing real estate magnate and Republican donor
Harlan Crow.
Following a bombshell report by ProPublica earlier this month regarding trips Thomas took
on Crow's private jet, his superyacht, and to his properties in New
York and Texas which had not been included in financial disclosures as
required by federal law, the conservative justice brushed off criticism
by saying he benefited only from "personal hospitality from close
personal friends" and that Crow "did not have business before the
court."
While also denying any ethics breaches, Crow, who has donated at least $13 million to Republican politicians, acknowledged in an interview with TheDallas Morning News that "every single relationship... has some kind of reciprocity."
The truth of that admission became clearer Thursday as The Guardian reported
on findings in the judicial record, which showed Crow's ties to
right-wing groups that have been involved in Supreme Court cases since
Thomas was first confirmed to the bench in 1991.
The Texas billionaire was part of anti-taxation group Club for Growth's
"founders committee," which helped direct its policymaking, in 2003
when the group filed an amicus brief challenging the McCain-Feingold
Act, a campaign finance reform law.
Thomas wrote a blistering dissent when the court permitted the law to
stand against the wishes of Club for Growth and other right-wing groups.
As The Guardian reported, at this point Crow had already "showered Thomas with several lavish gifts" including "a 1997 flight
from Washington to northern California on Crow's private jet to attend
an all-male retreat at Bohemian Grove" and a $150,000 donation to create
a wing dedicated to the justice at a library in Savannah, Georgia.
Crow also held seats
on the boards of at least three right-wing organizations that have
written amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases; is a longtime trustee of
the conservative American Enterprise Institute, which has filed numerous
supporting briefs; and is on the board of the Hoover Institution, which
filed an amicus brief challenging student debt relief.
Thomas' involvement with Crow raises questions not only about whether the billionaire has "business before the court," said Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.). "Nowadays it's consorting with those... whose business is the court—who are deeply enmeshed in the efforts to capture and corrupt the court."
Law enforcement is fond of saying "no one is above the law."
But
the questions surrounding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas'
unreported luxury gifts from a conservative billionaire over two decades
are shedding light – once again – on the imbalance that ethics
watchdogs say exists when it comes to who is held accountable and who is
not.
"There's definitely a double standard at play here," said
Walter Shaub, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Project on Government
Oversight. "An executive branch employee or, for that matter, even a
member of Congress who so flagrantly violated the financial disclosure
law as Clarence Thomas had, would certainly face some sort of
consequences for their actions."
Shaub is also a former head of the Office of Government Ethics, which
oversees how executive branch employees comport themselves – that's
everyone from Census and National Parks workers to military generals and
even the president of the United States.
He argues that
there's one standard for the high-profile and politically connected and
another for the almost two million lower-level federal workers.
"The
Department of Justice has shown a real unwillingness to hold the top
officials in government to the same standard it holds lower-level
officials to," Shaub said. "And if you think about it, that's government
ethics standing on its head, because the higher up you go and the more
power you have to do harm, the more you should be held accountable,
because the stakes are so much greater.
You
know who's not writing about Crooked Clarence? Bigot Jonathan Turley.
He's writing less about transgender people because he's been warned to
"knock it off" and that it's hurting the university. But that didn't
mean he turned his attention to what he's supposed to write about. All
his best efforts to defend Crooked Clarence failed because there is no
defense of him so now he writes about anything else.
But
watch him pretend to be the legal expert on the Court when he finds a
topic about the Supreme Court which he wants to write about. Calling
out Clarence would be too much. He's got a right-wing base now -- on
the blog and on FOX "NEWS." That's why he couldn't weigh in on how
ocrrupt FOX "NEWS" was -- even though Howie Kurtz fought to cover the
story on FOX "NEWS." But not Jonathan. He's just a noted transphobe
desperate to pull in as much coin as he can. He's destroyed his own
image and things will not be easier for him, not should they be.
Meanwhile, Jonathan Turley, Mother Tucker Carlson, John Stauber,
Glenn Greenwald and the other hate merchants going after transgender
people are creating a very violent climate. Edward Helmore (Guardian) reports:
Rasheeda Williams, an Atlanta-based transgender
woman who features in a forthcoming documentary that highlights the
stories of four Black transgender sex workers in New York City and
Georgia, was fatally shot this week, the film’s publicist said on
Friday.
Williams, 35, who performed under the
name Koko Da Doll, was killed on Tuesday evening at a shopping center in
the south-west of the city. It was the third fatal shooting of a
transgender woman in the city since the beginning of the year, Atlanta
police said in a statement.
Alex Cooper (The Advocate) adds:
Koko, whose non-performance name was Rasheeda Williams, starred in the Sundance Film Festival documentary Kokomo City
along with Daniella Carter, Liyah Mitchell and Dominique Silve. The
film was the directorial debut of Grammy-nominated producer D. Smith.
The documentary depicts the lives of several Black transgender sex
workers who live in Atlanta and New York City. It has been lauded for
its realistic depiction of the various ways the women navigate their
identities and their work.
Atlanta Police found Koko with a
gunshot wound around 11 p.m. Tuesday night at a shopping center.
Authorities announced her dead at the scene.
[. . .]
Koko’s co-star Carter wrote on Instagram, "Never thought I'd lose you,
but here I am, standing alone without you by my side. We're sisters for
life, we promised, but now you're gone. I don't know what to do without
you. I'm going crazy, I'm trying to hold on to keep strong, but it just
doesn't feel right. I'm waiting here, my arms wide open, tears running
down my face, ready for you to return even if it takes forever, my
sister. I will truly miss you, sis."
I
never, ever want to see the left welcome back John Stauber. He has
fostered hate against the transgender community and that should never be
forgotten. His past accomplishments aren't all that to begin with but
by going after the most vulnerable in our society, he has roped himself
off from the left forever.
Agreed.
There is no defense for those people as they have cheered on attacks on
transgender persons and made 'jokes' that were not jokes. People like
John Stauber are truly beyond redemption at this point. They chose to
side with a mob egged on by right-wing money. There's no defense for
what they're doing.
Dave Zirin (THE PROGRESSIVE) notes:
The April 16 issue of The New York Times included an article that would chill even the most cynical of leftists. Called “How a Campaign Against Transgender Rights Mobilized Conservatives,”
it is about how Republican operatives, public relations hacks, and
careerist message makers came to settle upon the demonization of
transgender people as their culture war battle du jour.
Stymied by the waning opposition to gay marriage that exists even
among Republicans, they ferreted about trying to figure out the next
community to demonize. Eventually, they decided to target transgender
people, regardless of the violence that has already been inflicted upon them.
It was a rocky start for the right, with “bathroom bills” in North Carolina roundly defeated and mocked
in 2016. This stoking of anti-trans animus proved more difficult than
they had thought it would be. Then they finally found their “in,” and
this is where they confirm what has been transparently clear for the
last several years: it would be girls' sports.
The hate machine—dark money, billionaire Nazi fetishists, think
tanks, news networks—of the far right found a foothold by focusing on
transgender girls in sports and the “unfair advantages,” and even
“threat,” that they posed to cisgender girls. In many states, there are
no transgender girls on sports teams, or at least none that rightwing lawmakers can name. But that didn’t stop dozens of states from enacting bans, pressuring hesitant but craven rightwing governors
to sign these bans while using their political pulpit to whip up a
fury. They were joined in this effort by organizations formed by
self-proclaimed “liberal feminists” willing to link arms with the far
right for a frenzied common goal, whose very slogan is a negation of the
existence of trans women: “keeping men out of women’s sports.” They
abided by this alliance even when states like Kansas opened the door for “sex tests” to inspect the genitals of girls to ensure they were not trans.
Well, congrats to all the sports folks who fight to keep trans kids from
playing sports. You’ve unleashed a hatred you can no longer control.
The anti-trans sports laws, as the operatives crowed, played into issues of “parental control,” which has been weaponized legislatively against gender-affirming care for minors and increasingly adults as well. It is the same framework that was used against books by authors like Toni Morrison or Anne Frank
appearing in public libraries because they made white parents
uncomfortable. Lectures have been canceled. Books have been banned.
Library systems may be closed. And it started with that narrow entry
point: attacking trans kids in sports. (The focused fusillade against
critical race theory stems from a different space—reaction to the
massive multiracial protests in 2020, following the murder of George
Floyd by police—but have become utterly intertwined in the agenda of the
same legislators.)
People
like Jonathan Turley and John Stauber were part of spreading the hate
and there is no forgiveness because there is no taking back the hate
that has been hurled at the transgender community or the fear that they
have had to live under.
They've taken sides in a
war and it was on the side of the corrupt and the crooked, not on the
side of those in need. They can't come running back when it all
explodes in their face and they have no where else to turn.
This
was not a disagreement over a nominee. This was about basic human
rights. They chose to back racists and bigots and that's who they
should have to break bread with forever more.
Recently, at least 11 states threatened
to restrict drag shows, which is an extension of the slew of
anti-LGBTQ+ legislation passed within the past few years. Tennessee is
among the most notorious in enacting oppressive anti-drag legislation
within the last few weeks, and for its anti-trans laws.
There have been laws which restrict gender expression for centuries. One of the first was enacted
in 1863 in San Francisco, where people were prohibited from being in
public places if they were wearing clothes that were “different” from
their assigned sex. Other laws like this became common in the late 19th
century.
In 2022 alone, 29 out of 315 anti-LGTBQ bills were passed
into law, with hundreds of others being introduced in state
legislatures. Restricting drag shows and gender expression takes it a
frightening step further, and The Guardian describes it as nearing “draconian restrictions.”
Tennessee has adopted
14 anti-LGBTQ bills since 2015, more than any other state according to
Human Rights Campaign. Last week, a bill was passed in Tennessee that restricts
“adult cabaret performances” in public or in front of children. The
bill also specifies that the “performances” cannot happen within 1,000
feet of schools, public parks or places of worship.
Critics of this bill in Tennessee say the
language is ambiguous, making business owners and performers wary of the
extreme range of responses people will have. Despite little
constitutional clarity, the punishments are significant. In the first
offense of violating this law, people will face
misdemeanor charges with fines up to $2,500 and/or up to a year in
jail. Further violations could result in felony charges resulting in up
to six years in jail.
If you missed
it, AOC made some comment on CNN about FOX "NEWS" -- about some of their
actions inciting violence. This has Glenneth grabbing a pair of clean
drawers as he soils himself in shock. FOX "NEWS" did incite. It's one
thing for me to defend Mother Tucker Carlson expressing his opinion that
the election was stolen from Donald. But when we find out that this
wasn't his opinion, when we find out that he and others went on air with
claims that they didn't even believe them and passed them off to an
already angry mob?
That's a different animal.
AOC's
plan will go nowhere. But it's amazing how quick the Glenneths are to
GOOP onto this and to make it their whole world. While they ignore
someone who has truly been silenced. Which proves they don't care about
equality or fairness or a public square everyone can engage in. They
just care about the right-wing.
Julia Conley reports:
Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr said ahead of a scheduled legislative
session in the state House on Friday that she is "ready to speak" on
behalf her constituents, but Republican leaders have given no indication
that they'll allow her to do so after silencing her this week in
retaliation for comments she made about transgender rights.
State House Speaker Matt Regier (R-4) has refused to acknowledge
Zephyr (D-100), the state's only transgender lawmaker, on Thursday when
she tried to speak during a debate about a bill that would include
binary definitions of "male" and "female" in the state code, and other
legislation unrelated to the rights of transgender and nonbinary people.
The Republicans' refusal to allow Zephyr to speak on the House
floor follows her comments made on Tuesday about a bill that would ban
gender-affirming health care for transgender youths.
"If you
are denying gender-affirming care and forcing a trans child to go
through puberty, that is tantamount to torture, and this body should be
ashamed," said Zephyr. "If you vote yes on this bill, I hope the next
time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands."
Soon after, the right-wing Montana Freedom Caucus wrote a letter to the Legislature—posted on Twitter
along with a message that misgendered Zephyr—calling for the lawmaker
to be censured for using "inappropriate and uncalled-for language"
during the debate, unless she issued a formal apology.
Zephyr has
refused to do so, saying in a statement that the Republicans' goal is
not securing an apology, but "silence as they take away the rights of
queer and trans Montanans."
Winding down with snakes in Iraq.
AL MADA reports
on the fifth most dangerous snake in the world which is also known as
the Sayad Dakhil snake because of the number of people who've been
bitten in that area. Six to seven people used to die a year from the
snake bites before a vaccine was introduced about 18 months ago. The
dangers of that one snake has resulted in the deaths of many snakes of
different species in the area as a result of people fearing the
saw-scaled viper.
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