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"When considering the great victories of America’s conservationists, we tend to think of the sights and landscapes emblematic of the West, but there’s also a rich history of acknowledging the value of the wetlands of America’s south.
These include such vibrant ecosystems as the Everglades, the Great Dismal Swamp, the floodplains of the Congaree River, and “America’s Amazon” also known as the “Land Between the Rivers”—recently preserved forever thanks to generous donors and work by the Nature Conservancy (TNC).
With what the TNC described as an “unprecedented gift,” 8,000 acres of pristine wetlands where the Alabama and Tombigbee Rivers join, known as the Mobile Delta, were purchased for the purpose of conservation for $15 million. The owners chose to sell to TNC rather than to the timber industry which planned to log in the location.
“This is one of the most important conservation victories that we’ve ever been a part of,” said Mitch Reid, state director for The Nature Conservancy in Alabama.
The area is filled with oxbow lakes, creeks, and swamps alongside the rivers, and they’re home to so many species that it ranks as one of the most biodiverse ecosystems on Earth, such that Reid often jokes that while it has rightfully earned the moniker “America’s Amazon” the Amazon should seriously consider using the moniker “South America’s Mobile.”
“This tract represents the largest remaining block of land that we can protect in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. First and foremost, TNC is doing this work for our fellow Alabamians who rightly pride themselves on their relationship with the outdoors,” said Reid, who told Advance Local that it can connect with other protected lands to the north, in an area called the Red Hills.
“Conservation lands in the Delta positions it as an anchor in a corridor of protected lands stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to the Appalachian Mountains and has long been a priority in TNC’s ongoing efforts to establish resilient and connected landscapes across the region.”
At the moment, no management plan has been sketched out, but TNC believes it must allow the public to use it for recreation as much as possible.
The money for the purchase was provided by a government grant and a generous, anonymous donor, along with $5.2 million from the Holdfast Collective—the conservation funding body of Patagonia outfitters."
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25 reasons Trump won’t pay a dime to E. Jean Carroll
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That eye-popping $83 million judgment will not survive an appeal. A proper settlement would subtract at least $82,972,000.
In 2019, a strange woman named E. Jean Carroll accused Donald Trump of raping her in a changing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Midtown Manhattan. Trump called her crazy, and a jury found him liable for both sexually abusing her and defaming her with the “crazy” talk. Last week, a New York jury decided Carroll deserves $83 million for defamation.
Here are 25 reasons why that’s nuts.
1) Carroll has said rape is “sexy”
She backs up this insane statement with, “Think of the fantasies” (which my wife and I can’t stop saying to each other). For the record, having someone forcibly violate you against your will is the exact opposite of “sexy.”
2) She’s already bragging about shopping sprees
Remember in “Goodfellas” when that idiot shows up at the party with his wife wearing a $20,000 fur coat and De Niro tells him to “bring it back”? When you run a scam, you need to lay low for a while. Carroll, conversely, is making appearances on national television telling Rachel Maddow she’s going to buy her a “penthouse in Paris” as well as fishing gear and a motorcycle for her counsel (could she pick weirder presents?). Her lawyer awkwardly murmured, “Uh, that’s a joke.”
Yeah, this whole thing is a joke.
3) The scenario she described came from her favorite TV show
She is a self-described “Law & Order” fan, and there is an episode wherein a man muscles his way into a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman and sexually molests a woman. This is likely where she got the idea. She’s also a big fan of “The Apprentice.” Would you like to watch your rapist on TV?
4) She didn’t want to press criminal charges
Being on the cover of New York magazine is one thing, but taking your BS story into an actual courtroom is a whole other level of fraud. When Bill de Blasio said he would change the law to make the case admissible, Carroll kept awkwardly repeating, “The experts told me … the time has passed.”
5) They changed the law
The case had no merit because the statute of limitations on civil action had passed. So what happened? The New York State Legislature changed the law. Is there anything that screams “witch hunt” more than that? What are we, Zimbabwe?
6) The man who backed the lawsuit is a major DNC donor
Leftist activist billionaire Reid Hoffman is the money behind this operation. His motive is obviously to bankrupt Trump so he can’t run again. Carroll denied this at first because she’s a liar, but her lawyer was forced to come clean.
7) The whole thing was George Conway’s idea, apparently
Though she denies it, it’s clear this entire plan was concocted by “conservative lawyer” Conway at a radical leftist cocktail party in Manhattan.
8) Carroll’s lawyer is desperate to fix her reputation as a rape-enabler
Roberta Kaplan was supposed to champion victims of sexual assault with her #TimesUp movement, but she used it instead to run cover for perverts such as Andrew Cuomo. She got caught and she got fired. Her comeback included representing Ashley Biden (A Biden lawyer going after Trump? Is anyone surprised?), but this case could permanently rescue her Google results.
9) Carroll’s dress didn’t exist back then
Carroll said the rape happened in the early 1990s. We just learned the particular dress she said she was allegedly wearing did not exist at the time.
10) She cannot remember when the rape happened
We’re not talking about the exact date. She can’t tell us if it was 1993 or 1995.
11) She won’t let anyone test her coat for DNA
Carroll calls the dress her “bad luck dress” and told CNN she will never make a talisman out of it — as though the idea had occurred to anyone. Why did she keep it around? This could be the left’s Monica Lewinsky dress, but she refuses to let anyone analyze it.
12) She doesn’t know if Trump ejaculated
I don’t know if anyone reading this has engaged in sexual intercourse, but evidence of the male orgasm is almost impossible to hide.
13) She is a serial accuser
Despite being a 3.5, she has claimed men have sexually assaulted her at least a half-dozen times. This isn’t proof of Trump’s innocence in and of itself, but it becomes relevant when surrounded by 24 other points.
14) She said it wasn’t sexual
Carroll has said pretty much everything that you could say about this encounter, from “it was not sexual” to “it was the definition of rape.” She said she would not press charges, however, because it would trivialize the experience of illegal aliens who are being “raped around the clock.”
15) She’s not his type
Trump is into elegant Slavs. This woman is like that hysterical chicken lady from “The Kids in the Hall.”
16) The judge and Carroll’s lawyer are pals
We’re told Judge Lewis Kaplan was Roberta Kaplan’s (no relation) mentor back when they both worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Roberta Kaplan denies this, but it can’t be denied they worked at the same firm at the same time. That alone is a conflict of interest.
17) Carroll didn’t talk to anyone about the alleged assault, until she did
If a woman is sexually assaulted, she is morally obligated to report it immediately, so the rapist doesn’t do it again. Carroll did not do this. What’s more, she didn’t talk to any of her friends about it. At least not at first. This is peculiar behavior for a blabbermouth.
18) Even if it’s all true, the settlement would be tiny
Carroll alleged that Trump cost her a columnist job at Elle, but the magazine made it clear it ended her contract as an advice columnist based on nothing more than lack of interest. But let’s assume Elle fired her because Trump wrote a mean tweet. A good price for an advice column would be a couple of hundred bucks per piece. That’s $2,000 a year for Elle. Assuming Carroll lives as long as “Dear Abby” columnist Pauline Esther Friedman, who died at 94, that would be a whopping total of $28,000 (Carroll is 80).
So, we’re off by about $82,972,000.
19) She said women “love” being abducted
She told Charlie Rose (remember him?) in 1995 that women love the idea of a caveman knocking them unconscious with a club and then dragging them — by their hair — back to the cave. I’m no feminist, but I’m pretty sure the cerebral contusions from this kind of violence are not a turn-on.
20) She said it wasn’t a big deal
“I’m a mature woman,” she said. “I can handle it.” OK, then why does she need $83 million to recover? That’s four times the amount of money you get when your kid is decapitated.
21) She lives in a Mouse House
Anyone who doubts this lady’s mental state needs to check out her house. She calls it “The Mouse House” because it’s infested with rodents (to whom she has given individual names, such as “Terbrusky”). She has painted the trees blue. She has printed out 27 years of advice column questions and stacked them all over the place. Yes, writers can be weird. But it is impossible to look at her place and not think, “This is nuts.”
22) She is a hoarder
Hoarding is a mental disorder. You can’t sue someone for calling you “crazy” if you have a mental disorder.
23) Her cat is called “Vagina” — seriously
E. Jean Carroll is obsessed with sex and her vagina. She said she lives in the woods because if she lived in the city, she’d have 16 boyfriends. She’s 80, remember?
Her dog “Tits” has blue hair, and her cat is named “Vagina.” The left-wing media thinks this is irrelevant. “Among the stranger complaints made by the former president … was that the jury wasn’t informed about the name of his accuser’s cat: Vagina T. Fireball.” Uh, when the charge is “calling a sane woman crazy,” Vagina T. Fireball matters.
24) She writes notes to herself
Wait, doesn’t everyone do that? Not like this. “The Mouse House” is festooned with bizarre messages. Her microwave says, “Burn Baby Burn.” Her bookshelf says, “Always amused never angry.” And, in a moment of deranged honesty, she taped a note to a lamp that says, “Hold your nerve. Pursue your radical options to the bitter END!”
25) Carroll said she wanted to “rape” Trump
Apparently, she thought having rough sex with him in the changing room would make for a “funny story.” (Wait, I thought she didn’t tell anyone about what happened to her out of fear.) She also suggested she’d do it for $17,000 if he was unable to speak. Sounds awfully rapey, doesn’t it?
Anyone who takes this case seriously and doesn’t see E. Jean Carroll as a complete basket case is a complete basket case.
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Ms. "Rape is sexy" and her dog named "vagina."
A liar the 1st jury found not to be credible for the R act and the 2nd jury awards $83 million in damages because Trump called her a "liar."
Interesting how Epstein Islands Reid Hoffman funded this fake case and he's funding Nikki Haley's campaign.
The jury in the second E. Jean Carroll case against President Donald J. Trump has returned a verdict awarding the sex-obsessed writer $83 million.
The clerk read the verdict, which included $7.1 million for compensatory damages, $11 million more, and a $65 million punitive cost. Carroll’s lawyers had initially asked for between $7 million and $12 million.
The money is supposed to be used for a “reputational damage repair” program for Ms. Carroll, whose publicity and income have risen since her bizarre story about being raped by Trump in a department store in the 1990s first came to light.
By comparison, the multi-billion-dollar Bud Light is spending $7m on a Supercame to light.
By comparison, the multi-billion-dollar Bud Light is spending $7m on a Super Bowl ad to repair its reputation since its Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.
Ashlee Humphreys, the reputation repair “expert” who testified on behalf of E. Jean Carroll, admitted under cross-examination that she has no “real world” experience in the field. She is a Democratic Party donor.
The trial has been marred with bias from the judge, as well as having a tainted New York pool of evidently far-left jurors seeking to punish President Trump for his politics.
Nikki Haley donor and Jeffrey Epstein’s friend Reid Hoffman funded the case.
UPDATE – President Trump responded on Truth Social shortly after the verdict: “Absolutely ridiculous! I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party. Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon. They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!”
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vomitdodger · 3 months
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Top Nikki Haley, E Jean Carroll, & Fusion GPS Backer Was Epstein Island Visitor.
Democrat billionaire Reid Hoffman, who has been funding Nikki Haley’s run for the GOP nomination, has been outed as a visitor to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s private island, Little St. James – better known as ‘Pedo Island’. The Democrat mega-donor and LinkedIn founder was reported to be considering funding Ron DeSantis, purely to try and thwart Donald Trump’s nomination, nine months ago. He ultimately decided to back Haley, gifting a quarter-million dollars to the pro-Haley SFA Fund Inc
And Haley had to know his demtard ties and trips to Epstein island.
Media chock full of Haley today it seems. Watch her lie and dance now.
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1americanconservative · 2 months
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Reminder: the man who finally backed the $83.3 million defamation lawsuit against Trump is Democrat Mega Donor Reid Hoffman.
Reid Hoffman has also financially backed Nikki Haley.
This is a coordinated attack on Trump. Are you paying attention yet?
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workingwhileidream · 1 year
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Originally I wasn't in love with how much they aged up Daniel but Eric Bogosian absolutely sold me on it this episode. His reactions and timing during the dinner portion of episode 2 had me on the floor. The look he gives the steak while Louis is drinking from the donor? My sides still hurt. He joins Jacob Anderson and Sam Reid in understanding the assignment so well you would think they wrote it.
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naturalrights-retard · 8 months
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A billionaire who regularly visited Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘pedophile island’ has now officially become President Biden’s biggest re-election donor.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who was good friends with deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, is pumping millions of dollars into the Biden Victory Fund, according to FEC records.
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cherriesrae · 1 year
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are vampy and bunny fluffy? Or all dark and shit?
You're lucky I missed writing about them lol, here's a small blurb on their dynamic->
Y/N absolutely loved being a part of youth group activities, what Y/N didn't know is that Harry was one of the significant donors every year to a charity she volunteered for. Leading a whole tribe of vampires in San Fransico and owning a bar could have told her he had the money, but in no context did she think Harry was donating toys for children during the holidays.
And the way she found out wasn't exactly life-changing, but it was a shock. Y/N had spent the whole day writing invitations at the center, getting the news out that they would have a gala to help buy presents for less fortunate children. There was even a QR code on the paper to a spreadsheet of children and amazon lists they could buy directly from. Coming back to Harry's and taking a bath with the new vampire-themed bath bombs- she thought were hilarious when she saw them on sale at a lush after Halloween and promptly bought the lot - and coming up with a cup of chamomile tea to help relax.
Using the keys Harry had insisted she take after also insisting he not be invited into her home until she knows she's serious about him. She walked in and saw Harry sitting on the loveseat next to the couch sipping a mug of something- she had no idea what it could be - but it was however the playboy bunny cup she had gifted him after her very theatrical Halloween.
" Hi Bunny, how's the new project going?" On top of the volunteer work she had put in, she was also working on a winter theme window art at an Applebee's. " They givin' you those martinis you like for free or are you sober there too?" Cuddling up next to Harry on his loveseat.
" I told you, I only drink on the job when I'm working for you." Sliding under his arm that was holding the copy of a Taylor Jenkins Reid book he had taken without her knowing borrowed from her, she closed her eyes and loved into the warmth of his skin. Thanking the creators for making “ vampires have cold skin” just a story and not the truth.
" Oh yeah? And why is that?" Harry had set the mug down and switched which hand had a hold of his (her) book. Pulling her up and putting his nose to her jugular, like he was Eve, teasing himself with forbidden fruit.
" Because you're my boyfriend, and it's a bar, and my boss is insufferable." Harry nips at the skin, a lovebite forming after her words. " I'm just joking, you grump. I wanna take a bath, would you come with me?"
" Anything for you Bunny," He pinches her upper thigh as she risings off the cushion, a gentle reminder of who she was talking to.
" C'mon, we're using those bath bombs I bought for you," Y/N calls from her spot in the bathroom when she didn't hear Harry get up. A soft hand then begins to trail up her arm, " God, sometimes you're quiet, and sometimes you're too quiet, y'know that?"
" I know, but you love it." With the water already beginning to fill the free-standing tub in the middle of the bathroom, Harry began to slowly undress his favorite snack. Started on the button-down shirt she had been wearing, all the while making eye contact with her in the mirror. When they hit the last button became undone, the shirt- that he was sure was undoubtedly his by the way she was swimming in it - slipped to her elbows and caught. Harry recognized the matching cream bra that had the clasps in the front.
A tiny bow in the matching color set on the front hooks, " all wrapped up, just for me." Harry sighed under his breath, licking his lips. Y/N laughed light and airy.
" Gods, are you never not horny? My big bad vampire of San Fransico drooling like you've never seen my tits-"
" In my most amicable defense, you have amazing breasts." Harry's voice was still soft like the moment would break if the volume was raised. " I truthfully do love you, Bunny. With m'whole heart."
" I love you, Harry."
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Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., who is facing a Justice Department investigation over her campaign's security spending, which includes payments to her husband, has a campaign cash crunch and is trailing her Democrat primary challenger in terms of money on hand.
Bush's campaign has struggled to retain cash with under six months to go until the Aug. 6 Democrat primary. In fact, her committee's most recent filings show that it entered January with just $215,000 at its disposal. Her opponent, Wesley Bell, a progressive prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County who differs from Bush in his Israel stance, is currently better positioned and ended the fourth quarter with $408,000 in the bank.
Bell has also seen a fundraising surge since pivoting from challenging Republican Sen. Josh Hawley to entering the Democrat primary against Bush. From the beginning of October until late December, his campaign raised $492,000 and slightly edged Bush's money haul. He reportedly added another $100,000 in the first few weeks of January, his campaign told the Riverfront Times, which is not included in his most recent filing.
CORI BUSH'S CAMPAIGN PAYS $17,500 MORE TO HER HUSBAND, BRINGING HIS TOTAL TO $120K, NEW FILINGS SHOW
Along the way, Bell has also garnered the support of some deep-pocketed Democrat donors, such as LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, who gave the maximum $6,600 to his campaign for the primary and general elections, his filings show.
A recent poll found that Bush may also be in trouble come August. Bell is currently up by 22 points over the "Squad" member, the New York Post reported.
In addition to her campaign's substandard position, Bush is also staring down a federal investigation into her campaign payments for security, including to her husband, Cortney Merritts, whom she wed in February 2023. At the time of their marriage, Bush's office said they had been together before she entered Congress in 2021.
Merritts began accumulating money for security services starting in January 2022. Bush's committee, however, switched their description to "wage expenses" in April 2023 as they continued to bring scrutiny to the campaign.
Merritts has now collected $120,000 from Bush's campaign coffers. Politicians can pay family members from their committees if they provide "bona fide" services at fair market value. He pocketed the money as Bush's campaign simultaneously spent significantly more on St. Louis-based companies such as PEACE Security for private detail. She's spent over $770,000 on such services.
WATCH: CORI BUSH'S HUSBAND CONFRONTED OVER THE THOUSANDS IN CASH HE HAS RECEIVED FROM HER CAMPAIGN
Merritts' online accounts and posts have indicated he worked at a railway company for years before starting a moving company. He did not have a private security license as of late February 2023, Fox News Digital previously reported. He also did not appear in a Washington, D.C., database of licensed security specialists at the time. 
The ordeal triggered at least two complaints from watchdog groups in the subsequent weeks. The first complaint, filed to the FEC in March 2023 by the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, is still pending. The ethics committee has since cleared Bush in a second complaint from the Committee to Defeat the President.
"Since before I was sworn into office, I have endured relentless threats to my physical safety and life," Bush previously said in response to the Justice Department investigation. "As a rank-and-file member of Congress, I am not entitled to personal protection by the House, and instead have used campaign funds as permissible to retain security services."
"These frivolous complaints have resulted in a number of investigations, some of which are still ongoing," Bush said. "The Federal Election Commission and the House Committee on Ethics are currently reviewing the matter, as is the Department of Justice. We are fully cooperating in all of these pending investigations."
Bush's and Bell's campaigns did not respond to Fox News Digital's requests for comment.
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After Trump's Win in New Hampshire, The Liberal Media Suffered Another Meltdown😂
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It’s hitting them, and the liberal media doesn’t know what to do. Former President Donald Trump trounced former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who vowed to fight on despite this being the contest to halt Trump’s momentum. It’s over. Either Haley doesn’t know it yet, or she’s being forced to continue this unrealistic bid for the 2024 Republican nomination by the liberal donor class. 
CNN didn’t carry Trump’s victory speech in New Hampshire. MSNBC could barely get through it. If I had to guess, when Tom Homan, the former acting director of ICE, spoke about immigration, that was when they cut the cameras. 
Just wait until @maddow watches a Joe Biden speech. pic.twitter.com/N5IJu0rNBS— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 24, 2024
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 24, 2024
The two primary liberal narratives against Trump are that he might be senile, harping on a probable teleprompter screw-up, or he’s Adolf Hitler in waiting. MSNBC is the leading manufacturing base for this inanity. The senile part is laughable, being undercut when Nancy Pelosi did her media spot and blew a fuse on live television.
Is Nancy Pelosi alright? pic.twitter.com/ysZt1RS8kh— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) January 24, 2024
It’s just an endless stream of psychoanalysis from laughably unqualified people. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who suffered a breakdown after the Iowa Caucuses, went on to wonder about Trump’s supposed incessant lying and penchant to bend reality to his will. The folks have yet to cope with the inevitable: Donald Trump will be the 2024 Republican nominee. That alone is too close for comfort for many in the establishment press. They also, in part, know that Trump could win again.
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Donald Trump "saw this night as a just a night to ritually humiliate people like Tim Scott," Joy Reid says. "He just wants to see his former rivals grovel." pic.twitter.com/NhBNSkkSaz— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 24, 2024
Van Jones mentioned during CNN’s coverage that even with Trump’s legal drama, the Biden-Trump rematch is essentially a toss-up. Despite being roughly the same age, Trump’s persona and presence are more energetic and youthful than the lethargic, middling, and half-braindead aura that hovers over Joe Biden. The economy is stuck in the mud, inflation is high, illegal immigration is out of control, and all-out war could break out throughout the Middle East. His cabinet secretaries are incompetent; some, like Defense Secretary Austin Lloyd, even tried to hide their ICU trips from the White House. No one knew the secretary of defense was hospitalized with this White House.
Van Jones tries to warn his fellow Democrats that they're putting up an incredibly weak candidate. "Trump's strength, his resilience is really a reflection of Biden's fragility. Republicans are not afraid of Joe Biden...even with 978 felonies he's still neck and neck with Biden." pic.twitter.com/iLRJnwGeBi— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) January 24, 2024
Biden is eminently beatable, even with someone like Trump. Democrats can no longer lean on Trump’s unpopularity as a lifeboat because Biden’s approvals are now in the 30s.
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Rachel @Maddow describing Trump's dictator-worshiping pitch to voters: "If you pick me, that'll be the end of politics, and you won't have to deal with politics anymore. You won't have to deal with contested elections, you won't have to deal with contests or divisions when it… pic.twitter.com/DuJxENLOJJ— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 23, 2024
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I'm more convinced as time goes by that the opposition to Trump is the fear that, if he were elected in 2024, he would be a lame duck with no real political future. As such, he would be rather dangerous in terms of revealing everything from 'who shot JFK' to who got the trillions in recent spending and several other points in between. Revealing the participants in Epstein's Island might be on his list.
Viewed in that context, DJT has to be terrifying to those inside the Beltway.
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vomitdodger · 2 months
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What do Comrade Haley and Trumps trial have in common?
Both funded by democrat mega donor Reid Hoffman. That should be all you need to know about Haley. She a democrat in everything but name. RINO isn’t even adequate to describe her.
Granted Reid Hoffman “bowed out” of funding Haley a few days ago. All that means is the funds will be dark moneyed/laundered to her indirectly.
Also note she actually doesn’t comment on the ludicrous clown trial. That should also tell you something.
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It looks like Congress may have the two-thirds vote necessary to expel Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) from the House of Representatives — making him only the sixth member of the House of Representatives in over 200 years to be expelled from office. We’ll know soon. On November 28, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) introduced a privileged motion on the House floor to expel Santos. Because the motion is privileged, the Republicans have to bring it to the floor within two legislative days.
The reasons for Santos’ fall are well known — it started out with exaggerations about his background so outrageous that Santos was catapulted into regular fodder for late night comedians and then became the object of media and legislative investigators. And what they found was outrageous behavior in many different areas.
But it was the recent release of a 56-page Ethics Committee Report that provided the serious blow. Committee members charged that Santos “deceived his donors, knowingly filed false campaign finance statements, and used his campaign funds to pay for personal expenses, including rent, trips, luxury items, cosmetic treatments like Botox and a subscription to the adult content site OnlyFans.” The long list of infractions seems to have been the last straw for some members of his party and expulsion now looks within reach.
If he is sent packing, it will be remarkable not only for the fact that he was one of just half a dozen representatives to be expelled from the House but that Republicans, with their extraordinarily thin five-vote majority, will take the drastic step of actually losing one-fifth of their margin.
Who else has been expelled?
The most recent was James Traficant, a member from Ohio removed in 2002 following his conviction on ten felony charges of bribery, tax evasion, and racketeering, among others. Despite being removed 420 to 1 by his colleagues, Traficant mounted two campaigns for reelection — from prison no less — as an Independent but was ultimately defeated. Traficant’s departure didn’t do much to change the power dynamics in the House. Democrats were in the minority, and he had not been a very loyal Democratic vote — voting with the Republicans to make Illinois Rep. Dennis Hastert speaker of the House.
Twenty-two years prior, Democratic Representative Michael Myers of Pennsylvania was removed by a vote of 376-30 following a conviction over his involvement in a corruption scheme that ensnared several members of the House and a senator. In an FBI sting operation, Myers was caught taking money in a deal meant to guarantee asylum for a made-up sheik. Myers was ultimately the only implicated member who opted not to resign, and thus his colleagues relieved him of his duties. Once again, the expulsion did not change the power dynamic in the House, where Democrats held a large majority.
Finally, the other three members were removed due to disloyalty to the Union during the Civil War. Missouri Representatives John Clark and John Reid and Kentucky Representative Henry Burnett were Democrats who supported the Confederacy and were cast out by their colleagues in 1861 for this treasonous act. Reid, strangely enough, had resigned months before, but was expelled anyway. However, their departure made little difference to the House power dynamics. Republicans held a substantial majority over the Democrats, having taken control of both chambers of Congress and the presidency in the 1860 elections. Compared to the Civil War that broke out the next year, their expulsion was but a footnote in history.
Santos is unusual compared to several of the others who were expelled because he has not been convicted of any crimes. He has been the object of numerous media stories and the butt end of jokes. Right now, he is indicted but has not gotten the chance in a legal setting to defend himself.
It is for that reason that Santos survived one attempt at expulsion. Nearly all of his fellow Republicans were hesitant to shrink their slim majority. But in light of the devastating and quite detailed House Ethics Committee report, that hesitancy seems to have changed. Despite the negative political consequences, enough Republicans may join Democrats in booting Santos from the House. It is an act of political principle that we should applaud. Even in a body that has, throughout history, had its share of embarrassing members, Santos stands out for his blatant dishonesty and lack of personal integrity, which is why enough Republicans may expel him despite the harm it inflicts on their own party.
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Andrea Salinas should be a shoe-in to win the midterm election to represent Oregon’s 6th District; the Democratic candidate is facing an extraordinarily weak Republican challenger: the millionaire perennial also-ran, philanderer, drunk driver and oxy trafficker Mike Erickson:
https://prospect.org/politics/why-oregons-herschel-walker-could-win-mike-erickson-andrea-salinas/
Erickson claims to be tough on crime and anti-abortion, but when he plead guilty to a DUI, he managed to wriggle out of charges for the unprescribed Oxy the cops found (his defense boils down to “I wasn’t charged with possession so shut up about it or I’ll sue”):
https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2022/10/06/oregon-congressional-candidate-mike-erickson-sues-opponent-andrea-salinas-over-negative-ad/
Erickson also gave his girlfriend $300 and drove her to a “doctor’s office” that was actually an abortion clinic (his defense is that he didn’t know what kind of doctor he took his girlfriend to, that he was “dating” her but she wasn’t his “girlfriend,” and he didn’t know she was pregnant) (she contradicts this account):
https://jezebel.com/an-oregon-republican-candidate-is-also-lying-about-havi-1849642337
Erickson has a long history of running unsuccessfully for office. As the “Herschel Walker of Oregon,” he should be trailing substantially, despite his lavish spending. But he and Salinas are neck-and-neck:
https://prospect.org/politics/why-oregons-herschel-walker-could-win-mike-erickson-andrea-salinas/
That’s not because Andrea Salinas is a bad candidate! Far from it. She’s a veteran of the staff of the beloved Senator Harry Reid, a strong pro-union candidate who has been incredibly effective as an Oregon state legislator. She has lots of grassroots support, too — she defeated her primary challenger by 20 points.
So what’s holding Salinas back? Well, beating that primary challenger: Carrick Flynn, a first-time candidate who was propelled by $10m in attack-ads against Salinas, with all that money coming from crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried’s super PAC, Protect Our Future.
SBF also gave $6m to the House Majority PAC in return for the party’s endorsement of Flynn, despite the weakness of Flynn’s candidacy, and the PAC then laundered $1m of that money into Flynn’s campaign. Another “pop up” super PAC, Justice Unites Us, came into existence to funnel $50k more from Protect Our Future into Flynn’s candidacy, then went dormant.
Justice Unites Us co-opted social justice language, claiming to be an “AAPI-led and run organization” with the mission of “mobiliz[ing] the United States’ most rapidly growing voter bloc and help create progressive change across the country” — high-minded rhetoric that disguised the group’s role as a cutout for more billionaire dark-money. NBC fell for the scam and published a glowing account of Justice Unites Us, after they had ceased activity:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2022-election/democrats-target-asian-americans-new-super-pac-rcna29875
Now, Salinas — who drubbed Flynn and his “effective altruism” campaign — is fighting Erickson with a huge disadvantage. Her grassroots, small-dollar donor supporters already spent themselves dry fending off a billionaire’s plaything, and now she faces a corrupt, hypocritical millionaire who is flooding the field with his own fortune.
Despite Salinas’s victory, many voters believe that the race is between Flynn and Erickson, because all of those millions spent on Flynn ads gave him name recognition, as The American Prospect*’s Austin Ahlman discovered when he visited the district.
The problem of wealthy dilettantes draining the coffers of good Democratic candidates is not unique to the Oregon’s 6th race. Across the country and up and down the ticket, the popular, progressive candidates who won their primaries are going into the general having drained their supporters’ discretionary savings in fending off unpopular rich cranks who decided to buy themselves elected office:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/02/oligarchs-r-us/#hooray-for-slugwell
I just sent Salinas’s campaign $50. If you can afford to give, I hope you will, too. Salinas is a great candidate, an experienced lawmaker, and has a great platform. Her opponent, Erickson isn’t just a MAGA hypocrite — he’s a danger to the nation. If he gets into office, we will all be worse off.
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/stand-with-andrea-salinas
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