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September 9, 2022
Afternoon Update:
This New York Times page has links to all of its current stories about Queen Elizabeth II's death & related topics.
Caroline Davies of the Guardian: "King Charles III has pledged to serve the country 'with loyalty, respect and love' in an emotional address in which he paid tribute to his mother, the Queen, saying: 'May "flights of angels sing thee to thy rest."' Speaking with 'feelings of profound sorrow', he said: 'Queen Elizabeth's was a life well-lived, a promise with destiny kept, and she is mourned most deeply in her passing. That promise of lifelong service I renew to you all today.' In a speech that reflected his transition from heir to the throne to king, he also acknowledged his role must change. He spoke of the 'roles and duties of monarchy' and the sovereign's relationship with the Church of England, in which, he said, his own faith was rooted." ~~~
Judge to Trump & Lawyers: You Whining, Lying Nitwits Wasted My Time. Azi Paybarah of the Washington Post: "A federal judge in Florida has dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, saying there was no basis for the former president to claim that Clinton and her allies harmed him with an orchestrated plan to spread false information that his campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race. Trump 'is seeking to flaunt a two-hundred-page political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him, and this Court is not the appropriate forum,' Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida wrote in a scathing 65-page ruling dated Thursday. The judge also wrote about 'the audacity of Plaintiff's legal theories and the manner in which they clearly contravene binding case law.' Middlebrooks noted 'glaring structural deficiencies in the plaintiff's argument' and said that 'such pleadings waste judicial resources and are an unacceptable form of establishing a claim for relief.'
"Middlebrooks criticized the quality of the legal work presented by Trump's attorneys. 'Many of the Amended Complaint's characterizations of events are implausible because they lack any specific allegations which might provide factual support for the conclusions reached,' Middlebrooks wrote.... Trump's attorneys also presented citations ... that were simply not true, the judge wrote. The lawsuit claims Clinton and top campaign officials conceived of and carried out the plot against Trump and hid their involvement 'behind a wall of third parties,' and it cites a specific page of a report from the Department of Justice's Office of the Inspector General. 'I went to page 96 of the Inspector General's Report looking for support for Plaintiff's conclusory and argumentative statement but found none,' the judge wrote. Trump's lawyers can disagree with the report, Middlebrooks wrote, 'but they cannot misrepresent it in a pleading.'... Alina Habiba, an attorney for Trump..., said they will appeal the decision." Ha! Good luck with that! The Guardian's report is here. ~~~
~~~ See also Patrick's comment near the bottom of Friday's thread.
You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect and defend it.' -- Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address ~~~
~~~ Jamelle Bouie of the New York Times: "'Too much of what's happening in our country today is not normal,' as [President] Biden put it in Philadelphia last week. 'Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic.' The proof is everywhere you look.... A large part of the Republican Party is, as Biden says, working to ensure that the next time Trump is on the ballot, he cannot lose." ~~~
~~~ Andrew Gawthorpe in the Guardian: Steve Bannon's "We Build the Wall" grift "-- in which two people have already pleaded guilty -- is a very direct example of a prominent figure in the Maga movement lining their pockets with the money of unsuspecting marks. But it also stands as a metaphor for the movement as a whole. Far from standing up for the interests of 'ordinary Americans', Maga exists to funnel money, power and prestige to a small elite while not lifting a finger to improve the lives of anyone else.... They have made a mythic folk hero out of the white male worker, promising to return the country to an era like the 1950s, in which such people reigned supreme. That they then have actually done little to help even white workers should not obscure the fact that they have also poured hatred and vitriol on the immigrants and people of color who do so much of America's actual work.... The border wall has endured as the ultimate symbol of Trumpism because the soul of his movement is racism and exclusion...."
Pennsylvania Gubernatorial Race. Travis Gettys of the Raw Story: "Right-wing gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano can be heard on a recorded Zoom call with Christian Nationalists praying for the Jan. 6 insurrection to succeed.... [Independent researcher Bruce Wilson, who gave the tape to Rolling Stone,] noted that Mastriano was seated in front of the pine-tree flag that has been adopted by Christian Nationalists, and he said the candidate clearly understood and articulated their views." Includes video.
Texas. María Paúl of the Washington Post: "On the morning of Aug. 30, a 13-year-old transgender boy was pulled out of class by his school's administrators, his mother says. While his classmates continued their studies, he sat in a conference room at a Texas middle school where a Department of Family and Protective Services investigator began asking personal questions, court records state....The state agency was probing his family following a February directive from Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to investigate the use of gender-affirming care in minors as child abuse, according to court documents. The nearly hour-long interview touched on a range of personal topics -- from the teen's medical history to his gender dysphoria diagnosis to his suicide attempt years back, court records state." ~~~
~~~ Marie: If this story is found to be true or mostly true, the boy should not only get a whopping settlement from the state of Texas, Greg Abbott & everyone involved in the youngster's interrogation -- including the school administrators -- should do hard time for child abuse. This is preposterous.
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U.K. Queen Elizabeth II has died. The New York Times is liveblogging developments. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) The Times has a new liveblog for today, which seems to be running parallel to the liveblog started yesterday, and not necessarily with the same copy. The Guardian's most recent live updates are here. ~~~
~~~ Elizabeth's New York Times obituary is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon.
— The Royal Family (@RoyalFamily) September 8, 2022
The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/VfxpXro22W
~~~ The Guardian's main story, is here. Currently, the front page of both the U.K. & U.S. edition have numerous related stories. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ A statement by President Biden & First Lady Jill Biden is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Emily Dugan & Caroline Davies of the Guardian: "The first full day of the reign of King Charles III has begun, with the new monarch travelling to London to meet the prime minister and prepare for a national address on Friday evening. After staying at Balmoral overnight, the King will travel with Camilla, now Queen Consort, to the capital.... Once in London he is expected to meet the Earl Marshal, currently Edward Fitzalan-Howard, the Duke of Norfolk, to approve the carefully choreographed plans for the coming days and weeks. The King, 73, was expected on Friday to pre-record a televised address to the nation, which will be broadcast early the same evening."
Emily Dugan of the Guardian lays out the new line of succession to the British throne.
** Perry Stein & Devlin Barrett of the Washington Post: "The Justice Department said it would appeal a federal judge's decision to appoint a special master to sift through thousands of documents the FBI seized from Donald Trump's Florida residence on Aug. 8, according to a Thursday court filing.... The Justice Department wrote in a brief filing that it would be appealing the decision to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. In a separate, simultaneous court filing, prosecutors asked Cannon to stay her Sept. 5 decision on two key points: her order to temporarily halt a significant portion of the FBI investigation into the potential mishandling of classified information, and to allow a special master to review the classified material that is among the documents seized as part of a court-authorized search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Aug. 8.... Barring the FBI from using the classified material in the investigation 'could impede efforts to identify the existence of any additional classified records that are not being properly stored -- which itself presents the potential for ongoing risk to national security,' prosecutors wrote -- the first time they have suggested in court filings that there could be more unsecured classified material they have yet to find." Emphasis added. This story has been updated at least twice. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) The New York Times report is here. A Guardian report is here. ~~~
~~~ According to Andrew Weissmann, in an MSNBC appearance, DOJ lawyers explained very, very nicely to the judge why she didn't understand WTF she was doing. They not only explained in exquisite detail how she was endangering national security with her little concerns about Trump's "reputation," but also why you don't give a thief the opportunity to pick through the stolen goods to see what-all he might really, really want to keep. Marie: As for me, I still would have taken more of an Aileen-you-ignorant-slut approach.
Grifters Gotta Grift. DOJ Is Investigating Another Trump Scheme. Alan Feuer, et al., of the New York Times: "A federal grand jury in Washington is examining the formation of -- and spending by -- a super PAC created by Donald J. Trump after his loss in the 2020 election as he was raising millions of dollars by baselessly asserting that the results had been marred by widespread voting fraud. According to subpoenas issued by the grand jury, the contents of which were described to The New York Times, the Justice Department is interested in the inner workings of Save America PAC, Mr. Trump's main fund-raising vehicle after the election. Several similar subpoenas were sent on Wednesday to junior and midlevel aides who worked in the White House and for Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.... The new subpoenas appeared to have been issued by a different grand jury in Washington than the one that has been gathering evidence about the so-called fake electors plan...." The ABC News story is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ MEANWHILE, Another Trumpy Grifter Is Charged. Chelsia Marcius, et al., of the New York Times: "Stephen K. Bannon, who once served as top adviser to ... Donald J. Trump, surrendered to the Manhattan district attorney's office on Thursday and was expected to face charges later in the day. The indictment, unsealed Thursday morning, charges Mr. Bannon with two felony counts of money laundering, two counts of conspiracy and a felony count of scheming to defraud in connection with his work with We Build the Wall Inc." The story has been updated. CNN's story is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ Bannon does the perp walk. Marie: The cuffs are fine, but a muzzle would be an appropriate accessory:
More Ways Trump & Barr Politicized the DOJ. Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times: "A book by a former top federal prosecutor offers new details about how the Justice Department under ... Donald J. Trump sought to use the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan to support Mr. Trump politically and pursue his critics -- even pushing the office to open a criminal investigation of former secretary of state John Kerry. The prosecutor, Geoffrey S. Berman, was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York for two and a half years until June 2020, when Mr. Trump fired him.... The book paints a picture of Justice Department officials motivated by partisan concerns in pursuing investigations or blocking them; in weighing how forthright to be in court filings; and in shopping investigations to other prosecutors' offices when the Southern District declined to act." Read on. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) ~~~
~~~ Martin Pengelly of the Guardian: "Donald Trump's second attorney general, William Barr, is stupid, a liar, a bully and a thug, according to a hard-hitting new book by Geoffrey Berman, the US attorney for the southern district of New York whose firing Barr engineered in hugely controversial fashion in summer 2020. 'Several hours after Barr and I met,' Berman writes, 'on a Friday night, [Barr] issued a press release saying that I was stepping down. That was a lie. A lie told by the nation's top law enforcement officer.'... Berman describes clashes on issues including the prosecution of Michael Cohen, Trump's former fixer, and the Halkbank investigation, concerning Turkish bankers and government officials helping Tehran circumvent the Iran nuclear deal." Read on. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.) MB: This is right out of the Banana Republic Handbook. (And, no, I don't mean the Banana Republic catalog.)
Ed Pilkington of the Guardian: "Ginni Thomas ... has links to more than half of the anti-abortion groups and individuals who lobbied her husband Clarence Thomas and his fellow US supreme court justices ahead of their historic decision to eradicate a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. A new analysis of the written legal arguments, or 'amicus briefs', used to lobby the justices as they deliberated over abortion underlines the extent to which Clarence Thomas's wife was intertwined with this vast pressure campaign. The survey found that 51% of the parties who filed amicus briefs calling for an end to a federal abortion right have political connections to Ginni Thomas, raising concerns about a possible conflict of interest at the highest levels of the US judiciary." MB: And questions about who the real Justice Thomas is: Clarence or Ginni?
Rowaida Abdelaziz of the Huffington Post: "CNN has hired John Miller, a former New York City Police Department official who lied about the department's history of surveilling Muslims, to be its chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst -- a move that has alarmed civil rights leaders and activists.... Critics ... have called attention to other aspects of Miller's record. While testifying before the New York City Council in March, Miller denied that the NYPD ever inappropriately spied on Muslims, even though the department has acknowledged that it ran a Muslim surveillance program after the Sept. 11 attacks." MB: As for me, I'm just waiting for CNN to hire Sean Hannity for the 9 pm slot Chris Cuomo vacated at the former management's urgent request.
Glenn Rifkin of the Washington Post: "Bernard Shaw, a journalist who left network TV in 1980 for the uncertainty of anchoring at the first 24-hour cable news network -- CNN -- and whose steady-under-missile-fire coverage from Baghdad during the Persian Gulf War helped elevate the outlet to global prominence, died Sept. 7 at a Washington-area hospital. He was 82." CNN's obituary is here. (Also linked yesterday afternoon.)
Kate Conger of the New York Times: "Twitter reached a $7 million settlement with its former top security executive, Peiter Zatko, in June, after he was fired from the company and had raised concerns about its security practices. Lawyers for Elon Musk, who is trying to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, disclosed the settlement during a court hearing on Tuesday. During the hearing, Mr. Musk's lawyers successfully argued that Mr. Zatko's accusations that Twitter had misrepresented its security practices be included in the case over the deal. 'They're paying the guy $7 million and making sure he's quiet,' Alex Spiro, an attorney for Mr. Musk, said during the hearing. On Wednesday, a judge ruled that Mr. Musk could discuss the security problems raised by Mr. Zatko during an October trial over the deal in Delaware Chancery Court. The trial will determine whether Mr. Musk must proceed with his bid to buy the social media company."
Beyond the Beltway
Florida. Tim Craig of the Washington Post: "The leaders of Florida's largest school system rejected a resolution to declare October as LGBTQ History Month, another sign that the state continues to lurch to the right as Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis pushes to remove discussions about sexual orientation from the classroom. After a rowdy six-hour meeting Wednesday, the Miami-Dade School Board voted 8-1 to block a measure that affirmed the county's commitment to ensuring the safety of all students -- including those who identify as gay, lesbian, transgender or nonbinary -- and recognized LGBTQ History Month as 'an effective means of educating and calling to action our community to work together by fighting prejudice and discrimination.'"
Michigan. Rick Pluta of Michigan Public Radio: "Thursday, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that a proposed state constitutional amendment that would protect abortion rights should be placed on November's ballot. It's up to the Michigan Board of State Canvassers Friday to decide in a final vote whether the measure should go before voters. Last week, the question was sent to the state Supreme Court after Republican canvassers argued the amendment's spacing and formatting would be confusing to voters. They deadlocked on the decision and the group behind the amendment, Reproductive Freedom for All, appealed the decision to the state's highest court. Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack called the effort by board members to keep the abortion rights question off the ballot 'a game of gotcha gone very bad.'" According to an AP story, the Court voted 5-2 to put the measure on the ballot; the dissenters were Republicans. Update: The New York Times story is here.
South Carolina. Ava Sasani of the New York Times: "The South Carolina Senate voted Thursday night to tighten abortion restrictions but failed to pass a total ban after a heated debate revealed the ongoing struggle among Republicans to define a cohesive post-Roe strategy. The chamber voted to gut a bill that would have prohibited abortion without exception for rape or incest, instead choosing to add more limits to the state's existing law that bans abortion after six weeks. That law is temporarily blocked by the state Supreme Court because of ongoing litigation. The vote came after two days of debate in the chamber, during which Republicans haggled over whether there ought to be exceptions for victims of rape and incest."
South Carolina Senate Race. Meg Kinnard of the AP: "The South Carolina Democrat vying to oust Republican U.S. Sen. Tim Scott is facing calls from within her own party to fold her campaign, following the publication of additional leaked audio in which she appears to make disparaging remarks about her constituents. The calls for state Rep. Krystle Matthews to withdraw just two months ahead of the general election came Thursday in reaction to leaked audio published by conservative activist group Project Veritas of Matthews speaking to one of its members, without her knowledge. Sitting in a restaurant, Matthews, who is Black, is heard saying that she represents a 'mostly white' district, adding, of white voters: 'I keep them right here -- like under my thumbs. ... Otherwise, they get out of control -- like kids.... You ought to know who you're dealing with,' Matthews goes on to say. 'You've got to treat them like s---. That's the only way they'll respect you.'"
Way Beyond
Ukraine, et al.
The New York Times' live updates of developments Friday in Russia's war on Ukraine are here. The Washington Post's live briefings for Friday are here. The Guardian's live updates are here. The Guardian's summary report is here.
Michael Crowley of the New York Times: U.S. "Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken paid a surprise visit to Kyiv on Thursday, pledging $2.8 billion in military aid for Ukraine and other countries at risk of Russian invasion as the United States backs a Ukrainian effort to gain fresh military momentum. With Ukraine waging a counteroffensive to reclaim territory lost to invading Russian forces, America will send an additional $675 million in military support for the country, Mr. Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III said in separate announcements. Mr. Blinken also said he was asking Congress to approve just over $2 billion more for longer-term investments in Ukraine's military and that of 18 other mostly small and vulnerable European countries. The combined aid makes for a total of $14.7 billion in security assistance from the Biden administration since Russia's invasion in February, Mr. Blinken said."
Julian Barnes of the New York Times: "Six months into 'a very tough slog of a war,' Ukraine has begun to mount a counteroffensive and Russia's invasion can only be seen as a failure, the director of the C.I.A., William J. Burns, said Thursday. Citing the counterattacks in the south and around Kharkiv in the northeast, Mr. Burns said that Russia's president, Vladimir V. Putin, had badly underestimated Ukraine's courage and capacity for combat. While the final chapter of the war is yet to be written, Mr. Burns said it was 'hard to see Putin's record in the war as anything but a failure.'"
And You Thought North Korea Was Lawless. Min Joo Kim of the Washington Post: "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared his country would never relinquish its nuclear weapons, as the regime's leadership codified in law its right to launch preemptive nuclear strikes, state media said Friday. The North's rubber-stamp parliament passed the law authorizing the military to use nuclear weapons 'automatically and immediately' in case of an imminent attack against its leadership or 'important strategic objects' in the country, the Korean Central News Agency said."
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Here’s loser Sarah Palin whining about Alaska’s newly adopted ranked choice election system while appearing on fellow grifter Steve Bannon’s radio thingy.
"This newfangled cockamamie system called ranked-choice voting. It doesn't matter if you're the most popular or most qualified candidate,"
Well Sarah, here’s how it works in ANY election. You get the most votes, you win. Get it? So, asserting that you were the most popular and most qualified does not square with the outcome. See?
Her conclusion?
“…it's a very, very, very potentially fraught with fraud."
She loses, must’ve been fraud. This is the go-to now for the fascists. And yes, that’s a bollixed up statement because she leaves out the referent for “it”. Palin grammar is as deficient as she is.
But back to the losers. Far, far right whack job Laura Loomer, who was soundly beaten in a congressional race in Florida recently still claims she won. Why didn’t it turn out that way? Fraud. Natch. What will she do? Set up a desk on the sidewalk and pretend to do congress type stuff?
Trumpy wannabe down in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, trailing in the polls and in danger of being kicked off the grifting/authoritarian train, has gone Fatty one better. Yeah, he’s doing the ol’ “If I lose, it’s because of fraud” dance, but seeing how Trump has been faring while out of power, he’s tweaking the scam. He sez that only god can remove him from office. He’s also making noises about military intervention should the vote not go his way. Trump should’ve thought of that. More effective than Proud Boys or Oaf Keepers.
No wonder these fucking people hate democracy. Even when they rig the game they can still lose. What’s a crook to do in such a case?
CNN, under the new not so surreptitious MAGA guy (he might as well be), should just dispense with the idea that they’re not going to sign on to the lies and disinformation from the right. Might as well just get a clean feed from Fox and add CNN graphics.
ONCE UPON A TIME–––when we were very young: ( with apologies to Milne for the intrusion)
"They're changing the guard ( and monarchy) at Buckingham Palace–-
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
Alice is marrying one of the guard.
"A soldier's life is terribly hard" said Alice.
They're changing the guard at Buckingham palace–-
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.
We looked for the King, but he never came,
"Well, god take care of him, all the same."
A new era begins as the Elizabethan Era has ended. Last night's coverage of the monarchy and Elizabeth's life and reign overshadowed this country's Happy Valley turmoils–-we begin again just as Britian takes up new reins with a new monarch and a new Prime Minister.
"Whew!" says Alice–– come along now cuz it's time for tea! Get ready to fight for what's left for you and me."
To continue in this queenly vein, here is a video of the Oueen's bodyguard who tells a hilarious story about a chance encounter on a walk about with an American couple on holiday.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bodyguard-queen-elizabeth-story_n_631a4ebbe4b027aa405998b7
Found in an Abbott thought bubble:
"Why not yellow arm bands for transgender kids?
They could wear it proudly.
After all, yellow is one of the rainbow's colors...."
Traditionally, such arm bands would be pink.
Yellow was for Juden.
Overtones From the Sewer
When you strike a piano key, pluck a guitar string, or even speak, the sound you hear is built up of many different frequencies, overtones that all contribute to the texture of that sound.
The sounds from right-wing world are built up of frequencies as well. Overtones of hatred, paranoia, ignorance, violence, and bigotry, and fear. And there are plenty of string pluckers out there, Trump, Greene, Cotton, Graham, Hawley, Cruz, KKKarlson, Hannity, McConnell, Bannon, Abbott, every Newsmax and OAN moron, and plenty more.
The overtones and the resulting sounds are all intrinsically, organically connected. There is no separation from those initiating the sounds and the wretched overtones that bubble up from the sewers.
Example: Have you ever heard of Kiwi Farms? Neither did I, until yesterday, when I heard a WNYC podcast about this site. It's a haven, a dark hole for right-wing hate trolls. Mostly they go after those who disagree with them in some way. That's a perfect reason to attack and destroy in right-wing world. Disagreement. And mostly they go after trans people.
They use a variety of attack strategies including doxing, online tracking, stalking, and swatting. The last is a neat little loathsome trick involving calling the local police to report that such and such a person is planning on shooting up a school, or church, or mall, or city hall. That person's address is given out and SWAT teams descend on them. The goal is, if the trolls are lucky, to get their selected enemy killed.
Until someone fights back. In this case, that someone was a trans activist named Keffals, real name, Clara Sorrenti. Sorrenti didn't go after the assholes on Kiwi directly, she went after the people who allow them to exist, and protect them, their internet provider, Cloudfare, a company that supports about twenty percent of all internet sites. The story is cathartic in these days of dangerous right-wing attacks.
Sorrenti got Cloudfare to kill Kiwi. A huge victory. Cloudfare was reluctant to do this, of course. There's a lot of haters out there. They published a self-serving manifesto about first amendment rights and how they only provide the platform, they're not responsible for content, and yadda, yadda, yadda. It sounds amazingly like Facebook sniffing about how could they know Russians and hate groups were out there helping Donald Trump? Waaaahhh...
But here's the thing. These troll armies who go after people from their anonymous sewers are successful because of two reasons. (1), they have support and protection. And (2) people are afraid to take them on because of the violence they threaten.
Think of how racist, bigoted assholes show up at school board meetings screaming about how the schools and the librarians better do what they say and get rid of LGBTQ and CRT books, and anyone who supports such horrible stuff, or next time they'll be back. With guns. Average parents at these meetings don't want to have to deal with these nuts so they stay quiet, and don't come back the next time. Most of them, anyway. And who supports such bigoted idiots? See the list above.
In the case of Kiwi Farms, Sorrenti roused her own army to go to Cloudfare and hammer them about supporting these dangerous lunatics.
Kiwi Farms got vocal support from Qanon trolls, the same people courted by Trump and Greene and dozens more elected wingers. And these are the people who then scream that liberals are stealing their first amendment rights and ought to be arrested and charged. But there's a huge difference between trying to stop dangerous criminals from getting someone killed and destroying their lives and demanding that school libraries get rid of books certain groups don't like.
The other day Marie mentioned that when Democratic senators decline to vote for some confederate hack, it's because that person is scarily unqualified. Republican senators attack Biden nominees because, well, because "Biden nominee". They're simply doing what they're supposed to do as card carrying fascists.
So whenever you hear America First nuts, white supremacist thugs, Sovereign idiots, Qanons, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, incel babies, or Stop the Steal liars, remember, that noise is an overtone created by those pulling on the strings.
See list above.
The sewers aren't very far below their feet.
https://www.wired.com/story/keffals-kiwifarms-cloudflare-blocked-clara-sorrenti/
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-library-turret-top
AK: People like me have no idea this kind of thing goes on in what we call "Social Media" so I thank you for instructing us. Those "overtones of the sewer" makes for the kinds of cords that hurt not only our ears but our very sense of harmony in humanity. So I thank you even though you pulled on strings that made my ears hurt.
Thanks, Patrick. Got it, but I was reaching for the rainbow...
You can't spell ROY G. BIV with a P.
@Ken Winkes: Oh, I know the Googles are watching my every move & maybe even changing my behavior. But sometimes Google is really, really helpful, like when I had no idea how to decode this:
"You can't spell ROY G. BIV with a P."
To add an interesting note to the story of FL Judge Middlebrook throwing out DiJiT's old whin in new battles, there's this from a separate WaPo story, quoting the Judge:
"... “I note that Plaintiff filed this lawsuit in the Fort Pierce division of this District, where only one federal judge sits: Judge Aileen Cannon, who Plaintiff appointed in 2020,” Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks of the Southern District of Florida wrote in a footnote on a separate motion.
“Despite the odds, this case landed with me instead,” Middlebrooks wrote. ... "
DiJiT clearly figures that Ms. Cannon is paid for, and he wants his money's worth. Unfortunately for him, the lemons lined up to Middlebrooks this time.
By the way===Ms. Cannon was in the running for S.C. justice but Amy beat her.