Today’s political news - Part 7

Haha, no. The thing is they are brave enough to spell it all out and say what they want to say. You and your fellow orange Jesus lovers think you're funny using what you do. But really you're just COWARDS. If you are honest just say it. 

Conservative views are one thing, MTG is quite another. She’s crazy

Now Minnesota has joined the Covid fraud of misused monies, big numbers..
MSNBC just announced it is the biggest Covid fraud case yet..

Federal prosecutors announced charges Tuesday against 47 people accused of carrying out the biggest Covid fraud scheme to date, a theft of $250 million through what officials described as a brazen and staggering plot that exploited a federal program designed to feed needy children in Minnesota.

Prosecutors say a web of charities, restaurants and individuals pulled off the fraud by claiming they were providing meals for tens of thousands of underserved children, when in fact the money was going to commercial real estate, luxury cars, fancy homes and even coastal property in Kenya. Authorities say the defendants took advantage of loosened eligibility rules — and a lack of oversight — due to the pandemic.

This was a brazen scheme of staggering proportions," U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger said in a statement.

"The defendants worked extremely fast, stealing money at a breakneck pace," he added at a news conference announcing the charges. "More than 125 million fake meals are at issue in this case."

Many of the defendants are charged not only with fraud but with bribery because the government alleges the charities took kickbacks from the food sites in exchange for steering them federal grants. And many are charged with money laundering for allegedly moving stolen funds through shell corporations and other vehicles to blur the trail.

www.nbcnews.com/news/feds-accuse-47-people-stealing-cash-meant-help-feed-needy-kids-stagger-rcna48558

More at link...

Oh lordy, we need help....

Trump's relationship with QAnon and the far-right has become closer than perhaps ever before, and a new op-ed published Tuesday said that the former president is encouraging his followers to see him as a "messiah-like figure."

www.rawstory.com/trump-encouraging-supporters-to-see-him-as-messiah-like-figure-op-ed/

Mar-A-Lago has water on both sides (he likes both sides) AT sea level.

So some of them are starting to say the quiet part out loud.

Great opinion about Glenn Youngkin. The article also gives a historical context and shows the inherent challenges of our political system and why voting alone is not going to fix problems in this country.

www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/glenn-youngkin-midterms-trump.html

Put differently, there is no large and pivotal group of Republicans who can exert cross-pressure on MAGA voters. Instead, the further the Republican Party goes down the rabbit hole of “stop the steal” and other conspiracy theories, the more it loses voters who could serve to apply that pressure.

In a normal, more majoritarian political system, this dynamic would eventually fix the issue of the MAGA Republican Party. Parties want to win, and they will almost always shift gears when it’s clear they can’t with their existing platform, positions and leadership.

The problem is that the American political system, in its current configuration, gives much of its power to the party with the most supporters in all the right places. Republicans may have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, but key features in the system — equal state representation in the Senate, malapportionment in the House of Representatives and winner-take-all distribution of votes in the Electoral College (Nebraska and Maine notwithstanding) — gives them a powerful advantage on the playing field of national politics.

To put it in simple terms, Joe Biden won the national popular vote by seven million ballots in the 2020 presidential election, but if not for roughly 120,000 votes across four states — Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — Donald Trump would still be president.

Which is all to say that someone like Glenn Youngkin is only doing what makes sense. To make MAGA politics weak among Republican politicians, you have to make MAGA voters irrelevant in national elections. But that will take a different political system — or a vastly different political landscape — than the one we have now.

NT State AG Letica James will make her announcement at 11:30am ET

crimsoncat05

Put your coffee down, or your soda or whatever... Don't say I didn't warn you....

I have CNN on, and it's Biden addressing the UN.
Is it on somewhere else?? Or is it delayed until Biden is finished speaking?

The schedule is running late at the UN... He went first I guess...