Miscellaneous political stuff - Part 21

Plus she has the best mom/auntie face. When my mom looked at me like that I turned off the sass asap!

So wrong...

At the resentencing hearing for convicted Capitol J6 rioter Thomas Robertson....Prosecutor's statements..


x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1831347328533319704
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The need for deterrence is at an all-time high," the prosecutor said, according to MacFarlane.

The prosecutor went on to emphasize that the Trump-incited January 6th riots at the United States Capitol were "an unprecedented disruption of government’s most sacred freedoms" and warned that "it must not be treated as ‘just another crime.'"

Ginni Thomas is at it again... Put it in an email too..

Ginni Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, privately heaped praise on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the nation’s highest court — efforts sparked, in large part, by her husband’s ethical lapses.

Thomas expressed her appreciation in an email sent to Kelly Shackelford, an influential litigator whose clients have won cases at the Supreme Court. Shackelford runs the First Liberty Institute, a $25 million-a-year organization that describes itself as “the largest legal organization in the nation dedicated exclusively to defending religious liberty for all Americans.”

Shackelford read Thomas’ email aloud on a July 31 private call with his group’s top donors.

Thomas wrote that First Liberty’s opposition to court-reform proposals gave a boost to certain judges. According to Shackelford, Thomas wrote in all caps: “YOU GUYS HAVE FILLED THE SAILS OF MANY JUDGES. CAN I JUST TELL YOU, THANK YOU SO, SO, SO MUCH.”

Shackelford said he saw Thomas’ support as evidence that judges, who “can’t go out into the political sphere and fight,” were thankful for First Liberty’s work to block Supreme Court reform. “It’s neat that, you know, those of you on the call are a part of protecting the future of our court, and they really appreciate it,” he said.

On the same call, Shackelford attacked Justice Elena Kagan as “treasonous” and “disloyal” after she endorsed an enforcement mechanism for the court’s newly adopted ethics code in a recent public appearance. He said that such an ethics code would “destroy the independence of the judiciary.” (This past weekend, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she too was open to an enforceable ethics code for the Supreme Court.)

This is not the first time that a spouse of a Supreme Court justice injected themselves into controversial political matters. Ginni Thomas sent dozens of messages after the 2020 election that echoed then-President Donald Trump’s baseless claims of election fraud. In messages to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Thomas said “Biden and the Left is attempting the greatest Heist of our History” and urged Trump to not concede the election. In emails to Arizona and Wisconsin lawmakers, she pleaded with them to fight back against supposed fraud and send a “clean slate of Electors.” She later wrote, “The nation’s eyes are on you now. … Please consider what will happen to the nation we all love if you do not stand up and lead.” (Thomas said in 2022 she regretted sending the inflammatory messages to Meadows.)

Martha-Ann Alito, the wife of Justice Samuel Alito, faced scrutiny for flying an upside-down American flag at the family’s Virginia home — a symbol used by the Stop the Steal movement that claimed the 2020 election had been stolen from Trump. The flag flew outside the Alito home as the Supreme Court was deciding whether to hear a case related to the 2020 election. ....
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Thomas and Alito have said they weren’t required to disclose free flights or hospitality from friends.

www.rawstory.com/thomas-supreme-court-reform/

In the indictment presented by Garland against Russia..
We have heard all those talking points listed in the tweet. ALL of them!!


A new indictment is revealing Russian talking points that one former FBI special agent said look suspiciously similar to Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH).

On Wednesday, the Justice Department announced two employees of Russian state-controlled media funneled nearly $10 million to promoting Russian propaganda, some of which by right-wing influencers.
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The second section reads, "Target audience of the campaign." It lists "U.S. political party A voters," and "Candidate A supporters."

"Interesting how the 'Campaign Topics' exactly mirror J.D. Vance’s campaign talking points," said ex-FBI special agent Asha Rangappa on X.


x.com/ryanjreilly/status/1831389030153646096

www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-russia-2669129989/

Best ad ever! I wish I could be a fly on the wall when he sees this. psycopac24 bwahhhaaahaaa

Outrageous heresy, with terrible punctuation thrown in. They are vile. 

Walz is a dad figure, favorite uncle, brother, helper, partner. How can you not like him with the way he loves his family... Pretty masculine for me at all levels..

The orange menace told a bunch of other falsehoods about NH today.  The DNC changed the order of the primaries, but Republicans control our state house and control the date of the primary.  Republicans decided not to change it.  It's also in our state constitution that we will be the first primary.

Housing prices are unaffordable, but they're unaffordable across the country, not just here in NH.  Our heating costs are also high, but no higher than other northern states.

apnews.com/article/harris-new-hampshire-economy-campaign-6dce74635a82647c44f8d6446ebffd17

Some of the state’s Democrats were angry that Biden directed the Democratic National Committee to make South Carolina the first state to vote in the party’s presidential primary this year — displacing Iowa’s caucus and a first-in-the-nation primary New Hampshire held for more than a century.

Despite that, New Hampshire pressed ahead with an unsanctioned primary. Though Biden didn’t campaign in it, or appear on the ballot, he still easily won via a write-in drive.

Trump has seized on the primary calendar change, posting on his social media account that Harris “sees there are problems for her campaign in New Hampshire because of the fact that they disrespected it in their primary and never showed up.”

“Additionally, the cost of living in New Hampshire is through the roof, their energy bills are some of highest in the country, and their housing market is the most unaffordable in history,” the former president wrote.


eta - And I think this is another reason why the former guy is complaining about buses and spreading falsehoods about NH

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-3-2024

Last night the Boston Globe published a leaked email from a top volunteer with the Trump campaign, former Massachusetts Republican Party vice chair Tom Mountain, telling volunteers that the Trump campaign “no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable” and is “pulling back” from that important swing state. He urged volunteers to turn their attention instead to Pennsylvania. After the story dropped, the Trump campaign cut ties with Mountain.

Stephen Collinson of CNN and Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, and Marianne LeVine of the Washington Post reported today that Trump’s team has given up on trying to get Trump to talk about the economy and other issues voters care about. The former president has decided to spend the rest of the campaign attacking Vice President Harris to destroy her popularity and drive voters away from her, rather than trying to attract them to himself. The Washington Post reporters noted that likely voters view Trump unfavorably and his team has concluded that while he can’t improve his own standing, he can damage hers.

Collinson dubbed Trump’s plans a “feral political offensive.”

Rick Scott And about a previous job . Swindling the Medicare system...

Steve Benen earlier this year wrote, “Before becoming a far-right politician, Scott led a company called Columbia/HCA, which faced a federal fraud investigation over Medicare. As the FBI’s investigation advanced, Scott resigned as CEO, though he nevertheless faced considerable scrutiny — including an infamous civil deposition in which the Republican asserted his Fifth Amendment rights 75 times.”

“Scott’s former company ultimately pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and was fined $1.7 billion. It was, at the time, the biggest Medicare fraud case in American history,” according to Benen. “Though the article is no longer online, The Miami Herald reported in 2010 that federal investigators ‘found that Scott took part in business practices at Columbia/HCA that were later found to be illegal — specifically, that Scott and other executives offered financial incentives to doctors in exchange for patient referrals, in violation of federal law, according to lawsuits the Justice Department filed against the company in 2001.'”

www.rawstory.com/rick-scott-2669131516/

That tells me he knows how to consume a vanilla shake. Hope he’s done something about his motion sickness or that vanilla shake isn’t going to sit well.

The MAGAts think because Walz’s brother says he had car sickness that’ll swing my vote to Trump? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Maybe go endorse a beer & get em to put your name on it & we’ll think about taking you seriously. ( nah ) Your just as inconsequential

Vance now has offered a solution to help parents with the expense of childcare...


x.com/Acyn/status/1831500812897677597

In other words, said U.S. Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.): "You're on your own. You ain't getting shit from us. Call grandma."
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"Maybe Grandma and Grandma still work," said author Jacie Floyd on the social media platform X. "Maybe Grandma and Grandpa have health issues. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa live 1,000 miles away. Maybe Grandma and Grandpa don't want to. The [Republican Party] shouldn’t be planning Grandma and Grandpa's retirement for them."

www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-s-solution-to-childcare-crisis-maybe-grandpa-or-grandma-wants-to-help/