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erik-even-wordier · 1 year

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I really don’t owe my Trump-supporting friends an apology. I’ve been critical of Trump these last several years, and am still exhausted from the experience.

But to be fair, Trump wasn’t that bad…………..other than when:

1. he incited an insurrection against the government,

2. mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans,

3. separated children from their families, lost those children in the bureaucracy,

4. tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church,

5. tried to block all Muslims from entering the country,

6. got impeached,

7. got impeached again,

8. had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history,

9. pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden,

10. fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia,

11. bragged about firing the FBI director on TV,

12. took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community,

13. diverted military funding to build his wall,

14. caused the longest government shutdown in US history,

15. called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,”

16. lied nearly 30,000 times,

17. banned transgender people from serving in the military,

18. ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions,

19. vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers,

20. refused to release his tax returns,

21. increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion,

22. had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history,

23. called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers,

24. coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist,

25. refused to concede the 2020 election,

26. hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House,

27. walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl,

28. called neo-Nazis “very fine people,”

29. suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID,

30. abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey,

31. pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans,

32. incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic,

33. withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords,

34. withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal,

35. withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership which was designed to block China’s advances,

36. insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter,

37. pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op,

38. failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies,

39. called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries,

40. called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,”

41. claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere,

42. forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader,

43. believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,

44. berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe,

45. suggested the US should buy Greenland,

46. colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges,

47. repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,”

48. claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases,

49. violated the emoluments clause,

50. thought that Nambia was a country,

51. told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public,

52. called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution,

53. nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet,

54. nominated a corrupt head of the EPA,

55. nominated a corrupt head of HHS,

56. nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department,

57. nominated a corrupt head of the USDA,

58. praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies,

59. refused to allow the presidential transition to begin,

60. insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death,

61. spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president,

62. falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote,

63. called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,”

64. falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year,

65. considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions,

66. mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID,

67. locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones,

68. used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”

69. hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser,

70. pardoned several of his shady associates,

71. gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressmen who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories,

72. got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!),

73. had a Secretary of State who called him a moron,

74. forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history,

75. botched the COVID vaccine rollout,

76. tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him,

77. charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties,

78. constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate,

79. claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear,

80. called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,”

81. used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise,

82. opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling,

83. got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers,

84. claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US,

85. ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings,

86. blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining,

87. redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle,

88. got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,”

89. threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution,

90. botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,

91. threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them,

92. pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes,

93. thought that the Virgin islands had a President,

94. drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane,

95. allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing,

96. rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos,

97. pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID,

98. rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers,

99. held blatant campaign rallies at the White House,

100. tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man,

101. refused to attend his successors’ inauguration,

102. nominated the worst Education Secretary in history,

103. threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted,

104. attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci,

105. promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t),

106. allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues,

107. struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble,

108. called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,”

109. threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders,

110. went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic,

111. claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,”

112. seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution,

113. demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director,

114. praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles,

115. completely gutted the Voice of America,

116. placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service,

117. claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower,

118. suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country,

119. suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public,

120. overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported,

121. reduced the number of refugees the US accepts,

122. insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames,

123. gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address,

124. named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties,

125. eliminated the White House office of pandemic response,

126. used soldiers as campaign props,

127. fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him,

128. demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade,

129. hired a shit ton of white nationalists,

130. politicized the civil service,

131. did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government,

132. falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts,

133. claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won,

134. insulted reporters of color,

135. insulted women reporters,

136. insulted women reporters of color,

137. suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs,

138. attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him,

139. summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election,

140. spent countless hours every day watching Fox News,

141. refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas,

142. hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer,

143. tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him,

144. acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney,

145. attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a prominent lady who accused him of sexual assault,

146. held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present,

147. didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media,

148. stopped holding press briefings for months at a time,

149. “ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power,

150. led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform,

151. claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers,

152. tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course,

153. suggested that the government nuke hurricanes,

154. suggested that wind turbines cause cancer,

155. said that he had a special aptitude for science,

156. fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure,

157. blurted out classified information to Russian officials,

158. tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida,

159. fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban,

160. hired notorious racist Stephen Miller,

161. openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them,

162. interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel,

163. abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war,

164. tried to get Russia back into the G7,

165. held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden,

166. seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive,

167. lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated,

168. falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t,

169. shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies,

170. still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan,

171. still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,”

172. forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID,

173. told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,”

174. fucked up the Census,

175. withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic,

176. did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,”

177. allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act,

178. seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican,

179. stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win,

180. constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump,

181. claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened,

182. said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake,

183. claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him,

184. claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President,

185. created a commission to whitewash American history,

186. retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain,

187. claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there,

188. hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims,

189. had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others,

190. bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties,

191. apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House,

192. stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians,

193. falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police,

194. said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about,

195. tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,

196. gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic,

197. tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax,

198. said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states,

199. deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented,

200. claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln,

201. touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all,

202. retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile,

203. forced through security clearances for his family,

204. suggested that police officers should rough up suspects,

205. suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs,

206. tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender,

207. suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher,

208. nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy,

209. retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden

210. had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event,

211. hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags,

212. accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address,

213. claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia,

214. mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault,

215. obsessed over low-flow toilets,

216. ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release,

217. called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek),

218. hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech,

219. took advice from the MyPillow guy,

220. claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists,

221. said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure,

222. never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign,

223. falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent,

224. announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest,

225. insulted the leader of Canada,

226. insulted the leader of France,

227. insulted the leader of Britain,

228. insulted the leader of Germany,

229. insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!),

230. falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues,

231. blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually,

232. continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,

233. said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked,

234. left a NATO summit early in a huff,

235. stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that,

236. called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary,

237. refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise.

238. Don’t forget that he took many classified & top secret documents with him when he left the White House, many of which have not been recovered & may have been compromised.

I’m sure there are a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.

Plz copy and paste. Whoever wrote this deserves credit but I don't know who it is.

#donald trump #popular #long post

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 7 months

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

September 24, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the nation’s highest-ranking military officer and the principal military advisor to the president, secretary of defense, and national security council. The current chairman, Army General Mark Milley, has served in the military for 44 years, deploying in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, Panama, Haiti, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Colombia, Somalia, and the Republic of Korea. He holds a degree in political science from Princeton University, a master’s degree in international relations from Columbia University, and a master’s degree from the U.S. Naval War College in national security and strategic studies.

Former president Trump chose Milley for that position, but on Friday night, Trump posted an attack on Milley, calling him “a Woke train wreck” and accusing him of betraying the nation when, days before the 2020 election, he reassured his Chinese counterpart that the U.S. was not going to attack China in the last days of the Trump administration, as Chinese leaders feared.

Trump was reacting to a September 21 piece by Jeffrey Goldberg about Milley in The Atlantic, which portrays Milley as an important check on an erratic, uninformed, and dangerous president while also warning that “[i]n the American system, it is the voters, the courts, and Congress that are meant to serve as checks on a president’s behavior, not the generals.”

Trump posted that Milley “was actually dealing with China to give them a heads up on the thinking of the President of the United States. This was an act so egregious that, in times gone by, the punishment would have been DEATH! A war between China and the United States could have been the result of this treasonous act. To be continued!!!”

In fact, the calls were hardly rogue incidents. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper, another Trump appointee, endorsed Milley’s October call, and Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, who replaced Esper when Trump fired him just after the election, gave permission for a similar call Milley made in January 2021. At least ten officials from the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department were on the calls.

Trump is suggesting that in acting within his role and through proper channels, our highest ranking military officer has committed treason and that such treason in the past would have warranted death, with the inherent suggestion that we should return to such a standard. It seems much of the country has become accustomed to Trump’s outbursts, but this threat should not pass without notice, not least because Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) echoed it today in his taxpayer-funded newsletter.

In the letter, Gosar refers to Milley as “the homosexual-promoting-BLM-activist Chairman of the military joint chiefs,” a “deviant” who “was coordinating with Nancy Pelosi to hurt President Trump, and treasonously working behind Trump’s back. In a better society,” he wrote, “quislings like the strange sodomy-promoting General Milley would be hung. He had one boss: President Trump, and instead he was secretly meeting with Pelosi and coordinating with her to hurt Trump.”

Trump chose Milley to chair the Joint Chiefs but turned on him when Milley insisted the military was loyal to the Constitution rather than to any man. Milley had been dragged into participating in Trump’s march across Lafayette Square on June 1, 2020, to threaten Black Lives Matter protesters, although Milley peeled off when he recognized what was happening and later said he thought they were going to review National Guard troops.

The day after the debacle, Milley wrote a message to the joint force reminding every member that they swore an oath to the Constitution. “This document is founded on the essential principle that all men and women are born free and equal, and should be treated with respect and dignity. It also gives Americans the right to freedom of speech and peaceful assembly…. As members of the Joint Force—comprised of all races, colors, and creeds—you embody the ideals of our Constitution.”

“We all committed our lives to the idea that is America,” he wrote by hand on the memo. “We will stay true to that oath and the American people.”

Milley’s appearance with Trump as they crossed Lafayette Square drew widespread condemnation from former military leaders, and in the days afterward, Milley spoke to them personally, as well as to congressional leaders, to apologize. Milley also apologized publicly. “I should not have been there,” he said to graduates at National Defense University’s commencement. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.” Milley went on to defend the Black Lives Matter protesters Trump was targeting, and to say that the military must address the systematic racism that has kept people of color from the top ranks.

Milley’s defense of the U.S. military, 43% of whom are people of color, drew not just Trump’s fury, but also that of the right wing. Then–Fox News Channel personality Tucker Carlson made a special effort to undermine the man he said was “not just a pig, he’s stupid!” “The Pentagon is now the Yale faculty lounge, but with cruise missiles. That should concern you,” he told his audience. As Carlson berated the military for being “woke,” his followers began to turn against the military they had previously championed.

Trump has made it clear he intends to weaponize the government against those he perceives to be his enemies, removing those who refuse to do his bidding and replacing them with loyalists. Ominously, according to Goldberg, another area over which Trump and Milley clashed was the military’s tradition of refusing to participate in acts that are clearly immoral or illegal. Trump overrode MIlley’s advice not to intervene in the cases of three men charged with war crimes, later telling his supporters, “I stuck up for three great warriors against the deep state.”

Goldberg points out that in a second Trump administration packed with loyalists, there will be few guardrails, and he notes that Milley has told friends that if Trump is reelected, “[h]e’ll start throwing people in jail, and I’d be on the top of the list.”

But Milley told Goldberg he does not expect Trump to be reelected. “I have confidence in the American people,” he said. “The United States of America is an extraordinarily resilient country, agile and flexible, and the inherent goodness of the American people is there.” Last week, he told ABC’s Martha Raddatz that he is “confident that the United States and the democracy in this country will prevail and the rule of law will prevail…. These institutions are built to be strong, resilient and to adapt to the times, and I'm 100% confident we'll be fine."

Milley’s statement reflects the increasingly powerful reassertion of democratic values over the past several years. In general, the country seems to be moving beyond former president Trump, who remains locked in his ancient grievances and simmering with fear about his legal troubles—Adam Rawnsley and Asawin Suebsaeng of Rolling Stone recently reported he has been asking confidants about what sort of prison might be in his future—and what he has to say seems so formulaic at this point that it usually doesn’t seem worth repeating. Indeed, much of his frantic posting seems calculated to attract headlines with shock value.

But, for all that, Trump is the current frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. He has suggested that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s senior military advisor, has committed treason and that such a crime is associated with execution, and one of his loyalists in government has echoed him.

And yet, in the face of this attack on one of our key national security institutions, an attack that other nations will certainly notice, Republican leaders remain silent.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

#Letters From An American #Heather Cox Richardson #Mark Milley #TFG #history #January 6 #the US Miliary #January 6 2021

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beardedmrbean · 10 months

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Two siblings were thrown from a horse-pulled Amish buggy Monday morning when a tractor-trailer truck crashed into them as they rode through rural Wisconsin, killing one of the occupants as well as the horse.

The buggy itself was demolished in the crash, which occurred after 3 a.m. on Wisconsin Highway 81 in Darlington, according to a media release from the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office.

Lafayette County sheriff's deputies were among the first-responders dispatched to the scene of the crash just east of Burke Road. The Darlington Police Department, Lafayette County medics and the Darlington Fire Department were also all dispatched, according to the release.

Investigators determined that both the buggy and the tractor-trailer truck were headed east on the state highway when the truck's driver, identified by the sheriff's office as Pavel Ivanovich Gritskan, 39, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, crashed into the buggy from behind.

The occupants of the buggy — identified as siblings Samuel King, 30, and Fannie S. King, 19, both of rural Darlington — were ejected, according to the sheriff's office.

Fannie King was pronounced dead at the scene. Samuel King was taken first to Memorial Hospital of Lafayette County before being flown to University Hospital in Madison, according to the sheriff's office.

The horse pulling the buggy was also killed.

Gritskan was uninjured.

The sheriff's office and the Wisconsin State Patrol's technical reconstruction unit are investigating the crash.

#nunyas news

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alightinthelantern · 6 months

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February 9, 1942: The French ocean liner Normandie, docked beside pier 88 in Manhattan, NYC, catches fire while being converted into the troopship USS Lafayette. A pile of highly flammable kapok life preservers were improperly stored near a working acetylene torch in the ship's grand salon, and a stray spark caused a blaze quickly got out of control. The ship's onboard telephone system had been disabled days prior along with most of the ship's advanced fire suppression system, and the sprinkler system was improperly activated at all of its control stations simultaneously, dropping the water pressure within it to useless levels. It took twelve minutes for the NY Fire Department to respond to the emergency, by which time the fire had been fanned by a strong wind to become an inferno sweeping through the Normandie's upper decks, and 2,000 Navy men and civilians working aboard were streaming out of the ship through a limited number of entry points, preventing firefighters from getting aboard the vessel. When they finally could get aboard, they found their hoses incompatible with the firefighting inlets on the French ship, meaning they could only fight the fire from outside the ship.

For several hours firetrucks on land shot water on the Normandie's starboard landside while fireboats poured water onto the Normandie's seaward port side, but the fireboats poured significantly more water into the giant ship than the trucks did, causing an imbalance of water in the ship's upper decks and a dangerous list to port. The Normandie's designer ‎Vladimir Yourkevitch was in NYC, and when he heard his ship was on fire he rushed to the site and begged to be let aboard so he could open the . "I designed the ship!" he said, "I can find my way through it with my eyes closed! I'll open the sea-cocks [valves], the ship's belly will fill with water, the ship will sink six inches and settle on the bottom, and it will be safe!" The Navy administrators at the conversion site were unmoved. "This is a Navy job," they said brusquely.

By evening the fire had been brought under control, but the ship was listing about thirty degrees to its seaward side. Thinking the Normandie no longer in danger, the Navy and Fire Department abandoned the ship for the night, not realizing only the ship's mooring ropes were keeping it from capsizing. In the night the ropes snapped, and the ship rolled over onto its side, wallowing in the mud at the bottom of the river. There the ship lay for eighteen months, no one sure what to do with the wreck.

In August 1943 it was decided to raise the ship and convert it into an aircraft carrier. The superstructure was cut away and then the hull was pumped free of water, and it slowly emerged from the river and returned to an even keel. But it was found the fire had damaged the hull too severely and the ship's machinery had deteriorated too much for the ship to be of further use. The hulk sat idly until the end of the war, when it was decided to scrap it after both the US Navy and the French Line expressed no interest in salvaging the ship. The remains of the Normandie were scrapped in Newark, New Jersey in 1946.

Photo taken by Harry Warnecke for the New York Daily News. It is unclear if this photo is a real color photo or a digital colorization. I found this photo on a Facebook group dedicated to the Normandie claiming the color photo is real. This photo has been published before only in black-and-white, and Getty Images features the photo in B&W, but Getty's version of the photo is slightly cropped on the right edge compared to the color photo (look closely and you'll see the space between the second funnel and the right edge of the photo is wider in the color image), meaning Getty's version of the photo is not necessarily from the original negatives, but could be an early reproduction. Interestingly, Harry Warnecke actually owned a color film studio and took color press photos of celebrities for the NY Daily News during this time period, so it's indeed possible that this is a genuine color photo. If anyone can provide any information one way or the other, I would be quite grateful.

#ocean liners #ocean liner #SS Normandie #Normandie #Harry Warnecke #NY Daily News #photography #1940s #WWII #WW2 #historical #vintage #NYC #New York City #Hudson River #early color photography #early color film #French Line

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rosefrancaise8 · 1 year

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FRANCE

Rennes

We are briefly in Rennes, capital of the Brittany region, en-route to the small fishing village of Saint-Martin-sur-Oest where we will pick up our boat tomorrow. A tourism website describes Rennes as ‘a well-crafted interface between past and present’ on account of state of the art public buildings co-existing alongside 286 painted timber-framed houses emblematic of its medieval history. It was almost destroyed by fire in 1720 and then it was bombed by our side in WW11.

We would have visited one of those modern buildings, Les Champ Libres, a cultural centre that specialises in the history of Bretagne, but we were too early for it. Promising ourselves that we would return when it opened at 12pm, we never did. The ultra-modern railway station with its wave-like roof lured us in and then the Centre Ville shopping precinct had its hooks in us. In doing that, we saw an edgy social interface to Rennes as well as an architectural one.

Not for the first time judging by the graffiti and damage to shop windows, a demonstration was taking place against Macron’s raising of the retirement age from 62 to 64. Large groups of armed Police were waiting in side streets ready to intervene if the situation required it. The Rennes Cathedral had a notice on its door saying that it was closed due to uncontrollable elements and when we were leaving the Galeries Lafayette department store we were asked to leave by a back exit so that we didn’t find ourselves caught up in it. It was as if the citizens of Rennes had seen the worst of people, whether they supported the cause or not. From what we could see, the protest moved quickly along, leaving nervous people and boarded up windows in its wake, in it for the long haul.

Our choice of a set price lunch at a creperie that looked as old as the cathedral opposite couldn’t have been better. Apart from the spectacular caramel crepe that finished the meal, from my vantage point I could see an engraved section of stone set into the cavernous fireplace beside us. The owner told us that it had been a gravestone (for someone called Jeremy he surmised) and that the inscription was in Latin. How would it come about we wondered for a gravestone to be repurposed in this way, at least 200 years ago.

We finished our sightseeing with a walk to the Jardin du Thabor (a French classical garden) that happened to retrace some of the many false steps we had taken trying to find our elusive hotel yesterday in Avenue Jean Janvier. Then we made use of the hotel’s plunge pool, spa and sauna, relishing being the only occupants.

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An elderly sheriff’s deputy in Georgia is accused of raping a woman at her home while he was on duty and in uniform.

Deputy Jerry W. Glover—who has since been fired—was arrested Tuesday for rape, violation of oath of office, and false imprisonment. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says Glover is 81, but his former boss Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson told Law&Crime he is actually 80.

The Lafayette Police Department asked the Georgia Bureau of Investigation on May 11 for help investigating a sheriff’s deputy who allegedly raped a woman, according to a press release from the bureau.

“The investigation revealed that Glover had sex with a woman without her consent while on duty and in uniform,” the press release said.

Glover knew the woman through his duties as a deputy sheriff, Wilson told Law&Crime in a phone interview. The sheriff confirmed that Glover was allegedly on duty and in uniform when he went to her house. Glover was out for 15 or 20 minutes, he said.

Wilson said the woman made the report to local police the same day.

Nashville Fox affiliate WZTV reported that, according to Wilson, Glover allegedly “pulled up to the victim’s home, went inside, forced her to have sex and then went back into service.”

Wilson also reportedly told the outlet that in the 1980s and early 1990s, Glover worked at the Walker County Sheriff’s Office, and before that, he worked for the Atlanta Police Department.

The GBI said they arrested Glover, but Wilson said that while the bureau had secured the warrant, Glover’s sheriff’s office supervisor executed the arrest.

Glover, who had been assigned as a court officer, was put on administrative leave at the start of the investigation, Wilson said. Glover’s division handled duties like serving civil papers, transporting criminals, and doing courthouse security, the sheriff said.

Glover, who has reportedly worked as a court officer for the past seven years, was fired on Friday, according to a press statement from the sheriff’s office. Wilson said he made the decision based on an updated report.

Law&Crime asked the sheriff about how something like this might affect local trust in the office.

“It’s certainly not the morals that we strive to achieve in this agency,” he said. “I’m very disappointed that he has committed an act that reflects on him, and it does reflect on the entire agency, and on that, I am very sorry.”

Glover was booked into the Walker County Jail. He was denied bond in a first appearance hearing on Wednesday morning, the sheriff’s office said. A bond hearing is scheduled to take place June 9 in Walker County Superior Court.

The investigation is ongoing.

From the GBI:

This investigation is active and ongoing. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact the GBI at 706-624-1424. Anonymous tips can also be submitted by calling 1-800-597-TIPS (8477), online at https://gbi.georgia.gov/submit-tips-online, or by downloading the See Something, Send Something mobile app.

The GBI described Glover as a resident of Rock Spring, Georgia.

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A pizza delivery man in Lafayette, Indiana, Nicholas Bostic, performed an incredible act of heroic selflessness when he was getting gas for his shift and noticed a house engulfed in flames, after which he bolted to the residence, covered his face from smoke inhalation, and saved five children from what would have been certain death. Cenk Uygur and Jessica Burbank discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://globalnews.ca/news/8997901/pizza-delivery-man-saves-2-kids-3-teens-burning-house-video-nicholas-bostic/ "When emergency workers responded to a call about a fire in Lafayette, Ind., last week, they witnessed a house engulfed in flames and a man leaping out of a window with a child in his arms. The man was later identified as Nicholas Bostic, 25, a local pizza delivery man who is now being hailed as a hero for rescuing two children and three teenagers from the burning house. Bostic was seriously injured during the rescue and had to be flown to nearby Indianapolis for treatment of severe smoke inhalation and a large gash on his right arm, according to a press release from the Lafayette Police Department. A few days after his ordeal, Bostic had recovered enough to recount his story to police." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 220719__TB04PizzaGuy by The Young Turks

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Louisiana Man Pleads Guilty to Burning Down Three Black Churches

A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Monday to intentionally setting fires to three predominantly black Baptist churches in Louisiana over a 10-day period last year — crimes that set a rural Cajun community on edge.

The man, Holden Matthews, the son of a local sheriff’s deputy, pleaded guilty to four federal criminal counts, including three counts of intentional damage to religious property, which is a federal hate crime, and one count of using fire to commit a felony, according to a statement issued by the United States Department of Justice. Later on Monday, he pleaded guilty to six state charges, including aggravated arson of a religious building and three hate crime counts.

He will face 10 to 70 years in prison when he is sentenced on the federal charges on May 22. He will be sentenced on the state charges four days later.

During his plea hearing in United States District Court in Lafayette, La., Mr. Matthews said he had targeted these buildings because of their religious character, according to the statement. Mr. Matthews, an aficionado of black metal, a subgenre of heavy metal, said he was copying similar crimes committed in Norway in the 1990s in an attempt to elevate his status among the black metal community, whose most extreme practitioners engaged in church burning, vandalism and killings.

Mr. Matthews was a member of a black metal band called Vodka Vultures. He also admitted to posting photographs and videos of the churches burning on Facebook as a promotional tactic.

Mr. Matthews set fire to St. Mary Baptist Church in Port Barre, La., on March 26, Greater Union Baptist Church in Opelousas on April 2 and Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, also in Opelousas, on April 4.

All the fires took place in the middle of the night and did not injure anyone. Mr. Matthews was arrested about two weeks after the first fire.

Though race was not mentioned as a factor in the charges, the three fires destroyed churches that had existed for more than a century and had been the spiritual homes of generations of black families, evoking the long history of racist crimes committed in the Jim Crow South. Since the 1950s, black churches across the South have been targets of arson, bombings and armed assault.

Dustin Charles Talbot, Mr. Matthews’s lawyer, said that Mr. Matthews had the social and mental development of an adolescent, and that his actions were not motivated by the racial makeup of the congregations.

“Holden now fully understands the seriousness and gravity of his actions and is deeply remorseful for what he has done and the pain he has caused the congregations of these churches,” Mr. Talbot said.

In a statement, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People described Mr. Matthews’s actions as “domestic terrorism” and urged Congress to take concrete steps in combating hate crimes against communities of color.

“Churches are incredibly influential in Black culture and serve as a safe space for convening,” the association said. “All Americans deserve to feel safe in their churches, schools and homes.”

David C. Joseph, the United States attorney for Louisiana’s Western District, said in the statement: “Today, the defendant has taken responsibility for the burning and destruction of three of our churches. The freedom to safely congregate and worship in our churches is a fundamental right of all Americans and will be vigorously protected by my office and our law enforcement partners.”

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In case you might to be inclined forget…

This isn’t mine but it’s a nice summation of tofg’s administration!!!

A true Copy and Paste gem. Pure Diamond.

I wish I could take credit.

facts.

President Trump wasn’t that bad!

Here is his record:

*he incited an insurrection against the government,

*mismanaged a pandemic that killed a million Americans,

*separated children from their families,

*lost those children in the bureaucracy,

*tear-gassed peaceful protesters on Lafayette Square so he could hold a photo op holding a Bible in front of a church,

*tried to block all Muslims from entering the country, *got impeached,

*got impeached again,

*had the worst jobs record of any president in modern history,

*pressured Ukraine to dig dirt on Joe Biden,

*fired the FBI director for investigating his ties to Russia,

*bragged about firing the FBI director on TV,

*took Vladimir Putin’s word over the US intelligence community,

*diverted military funding to build his wall,

*caused the longest government shutdown in US history,

*called Black Lives Matter a “symbol of hate,”

*lied nearly 30,000 times,

*banned transgender people from serving in the military,

*ejected reporters from the White House briefing room who asked tough questions,

*vetoed the defense funding bill because it renamed military bases named for Confederate soldiers, *refused to release his tax returns,

*increased the national debt by nearly $8 trillion,

*had three of the highest annual trade deficits in U.S. history,

*called veterans and soldiers who died in combat losers and suckers,

*coddled the leader of Saudi Arabia after he ordered the execution and dismembering of a US-based journalist,

*refused to concede the 2020 election,

*hired his unqualified daughter and son-in-law to work in the White House,

*walked out of an interview with Lesley Stahl,

*called neo-Nazis “very fine people,”

*suggested that people should inject bleach into their bodies to fight COVID,

*abandoned our allies the Kurds to Turkey,

*pushed through massive tax cuts for the wealthiest but balked at helping working Americans,

*incited anti-lockdown protestors in several states at the height of the pandemic,

*withdrew the US from the Paris climate accords, *withdrew the US from the Iranian nuclear deal, *withdrew the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership *which was designed to block China’s advances, *insulted his own Cabinet members on Twitter,

*pushed the leader of Montenegro out of the way during a photo op,

*failed to reiterate US commitment to defending NATO allies,

*called Haiti and African nations “shithole” countries, *called the city of Baltimore the “worst in the nation,” *claimed that he single handedly brought back the phrase “Merry Christmas” even though it hadn’t gone anywhere,

*forced his Cabinet members to praise him publicly like some cult leader,

*believed he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, *berated and belittled his hand-picked Attorney General when he recused himself from the Russia probe,

*suggested the US should buy Greenland,

*colluded with Mitch McConnell to push through federal judges and two Supreme Court justices after supporting efforts to prevent his predecessor from appointing judges,

*repeatedly called the media “enemies of the people,” claimed that if we tested fewer people for COVID we’d have fewer cases,

*violated the emoluments clause,

*thought that Nambia was a country,

*told Bob Woodward in private that the coronavirus was a big deal but then downplayed it in public,

*called his exceedingly faithful vice president a “p---y” for following the Constitution,

*nearly got us into a war with Iran after threatening them by tweet,

*nominated a corrupt head of the EPA, nominated a corrupt head of HHS,

*nominated a corrupt head of the Interior Department, *nominated a corrupt head of the USDA,

*praised dictators and authoritarians around the world while criticizing allies,

*refused to allow the presidential transition to begin, *insulted war hero John McCain – even after his death, *spent an obscene amount of time playing golf after criticizing Barack Obama for playing (far less) golf while president,

*falsely claimed that he won the 2016 popular vote, called the Muslim mayor of London a “stone cold loser,”

*falsely claimed that he turned down being Time’s Man of the Year,

*considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller on several occasions,

*mocked wearing face masks to guard against transmitting COVID,

*locked Congress out of its constitutional duty to confirm Cabinet officials by hiring acting ones,

*used a racist dog whistle by calling COVID the “China virus,”

*hired and associated with numerous shady figures that were eventually convicted of federal offenses including his campaign manager and national security adviser,

*pardoned several of his shady associates,

*gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to two congressman who amplified his batshit crazy conspiracy theories,

*got into telephone fight with the leader of Australia(!), *had a Secretary of State who called him a moron, *forced his press secretary to claim without merit that his was the largest inauguration crowd in history, *botched the COVID vaccine rollout,

*tweeted so much dangerous propaganda that Twitter eventually banned him,

*charged the Secret Service jacked-up rates at his properties,

*constantly interrupted Joe Biden in their first presidential debate,

*claimed that COVID would “magically” disappear, *called a U.S. Senator “Pocahontas,”

*used his Twitter account to blast Nordstrom when it stopped selling Ivanka’s merchandise,

*opened up millions of pristine federal lands to development and drilling,

*got into a losing tariff war with China that forced US taxpayers to bail out farmers,

*claimed that his losing tariff war was a win for the US, ignored or didn’t even take part in daily intelligence briefings,

*blew off honoring American war dead in France because it was raining,

*redesigned Air Force One to look like the Trump Shuttle,

*got played by Kim Jung Un and his “love letters,” *threatened to go after social media companies in clear violation of the Constitution,

*botched the response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico,

*threw paper towels at Puerto Ricans when he finally visited them,

*pressured the governor and secretary of state of Georgia to “find” him votes,

thought that the Virgin islands had a President,

*drew on a map with a Sharpie to justify his inaccurate tweet that Alabama was threatened by a hurricane, *allowed White House staff to use personal email accounts for official businesses after blasting Hillary Clinton for doing the same thing,

*rolled back regulations that protected the public from mercury and asbestos,

*pushed regulators to waste time studying snake-oil remedies for COVID,

*rolled back regulations that stopped coal companies from dumping waste into rivers,

*held blatant campaign rallies at the White House, *tried to take away millions of Americans’ health insurance because the law was named for a Black man,

*refused to attend his successors’ inauguration, *nominated the worst Education Secretary in history, *threatened judges who didn’t do what he wanted, *attacked Dr. Anthony Fauci,

*promised that Mexico would pay for the wall (it didn’t),

*allowed political hacks to overrule government scientists on major reports on climate change and other issues,

*struggled navigating a ramp after claiming his opponent was feeble,

*called an African-American Congresswoman “low IQ,”

*threatened to withhold federal aid from states and cities with Democratic leaders,

*went ahead with rallies filled with maskless supporters in the middle of a pandemic,

*claimed that legitimate investigations of his wrongdoing were “witch hunts,”

*seemed to demonstrate a belief that there were airports during the American Revolution,

*demanded “total loyalty” from the FBI director,

*praised a conspiracy theory that Democrats are Satanic pedophiles,

*completely gutted the Voice of America,

*placed a political hack in charge of the Postal Service who did much to destroy it and delay or lose people's *vital shipments,

*claimed without evidence that the Obama administration bugged Trump Tower,

*suggested that the US should allow more people from places like Norway into the country,

*suggested that COVID wasn’t that bad because he recovered with the help of top government doctors and treatments not available to the public,

*overturned energy conservation standards that even industry supported,

*reduced the number of refugees the US accepts, *insulted various members of Congress and the media with infantile nicknames,

*gave Rush Limbaugh a Presidential medal of Freedom at the State of the Union address,

*named as head of federal personnel a 29-year old who’d previously been fired from the White House for allegations of financial improprieties,

*eliminated the White House office of pandemic response,

*used soldiers as campaign props,

*fired any advisor who made the mistake of disagreeing with him,

*demanded the Pentagon throw him a Soviet-style military parade,

*hired a shit ton of white nationalists,

*politicized the civil service,

*did absolutely nothing after Russia hacked the U.S. government,

*falsely said the Boy Scouts called him to say his bizarre Jamboree speech was the best speech ever given to the Scouts,

*claimed that Black people would overrun the suburbs if Biden won,

*insulted reporters of color,

*insulted women reporters,

*insulted women reporters of color,

*suggested he was fine with China’s oppression of the Uighurs,

*attacked the Supreme Court when it ruled against him, summoned Pennsylvania state legislative leaders to the White House to pressure them to overturn the election,

*spent countless hours every day watching Fox News, *refused to allow his administration to comply with Congressional subpoenas,

*hired Rudy Giuliani as his lawyer, tried to punish Amazon because the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post wrote negative stories about him,

*acted as if the Attorney General of the United States was his personal attorney,

*attempted to get the federal government to defend him in a libel lawsuit from a women who accused him of sexual assault,

*held private meetings with Vladimir Putin without staff present,

*didn’t disclose his private meetings with Vladimir Putin so that the US had to find out via Russian media,

*stopped holding press briefings for months at a time, *”ordered” US companies to leave China even though he has no such power,

*led a political party that couldn’t even be bothered to draft a policy platform,

*claimed preposterously that Article II of the Constitution gave him absolute powers,

*tried to pressure the U.K. to hold the British Open at his golf course,

*suggested that the government nuke hurricanes, *suggested that wind turbines cause cancer,

*said that he had a special aptitude for science,

*fired the head of election cyber security after he said that the 2020 election was secure,

*blurted out classified information to Russian officials, *tried to force the G7 to hold their meeting at his failing golf resort in Florida,

*fired the acting attorney general when she refused to go along with his unconstitutional Muslim travel ban, *hired Stephen Miller,

*openly discussed national security issues in the dining room at Mar-a-Lago where everyone could hear them,

*interfered with plans to relocate the FBI because a new development there might compete with his hotel, abandoned Iraqi refugees who’d helped the U.S. during the war,

*tried to get Russia back into the G7,

*held a COVID super spreader event in the Rose Garden,

*seemed to believe that Frederick Douglass is still alive,

*lost 60 election fraud cases in court including before judges he had nominated,

*falsely claimed that factories were reopening when they weren’t,

*shamelessly exploited terror attacks in Europe to justify his anti-immigrant policies,

*still hasn’t come up with a healthcare plan,

*still hasn’t come up with an infrastructure plan despite repeated “Infrastructure Weeks,”

*forced Secret Service agents to drive him around Walter Reed while contagious with COVID,

*told the Proud Boys to “stand back and stand by,” *fucked up the Census,

*withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization in the middle of a pandemic,

*did so few of his duties that his press staff were forced to state on his daily schedule “President Trump will work from early in the morning until late in the evening. He will make many calls and have many meetings,”

*allowed his staff to repeatedly violate the Hatch Act, *seemed not to know that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican,

*stood before sacred CIA wall of heroes and bragged about his election win,

*constantly claimed he was treated worse than any president which presumably includes four that were assassinated and his predecessor whose legitimacy and birthplace were challenged by a racist reality TV show star named Donald Trump,

*claimed Andrew Jackson could’ve stopped the Civil War even though he died 16 years before it happened, *said that any opinion poll showing him behind was fake,

*claimed that other countries laughed at us before he became president when several world leaders were literally laughing at him,

*claimed that the military was out of ammunition before he became President,

*created a commission to whitewash American history,

*retweeted anti-Islam videos from one of the most racist people in Britain,

*claimed ludicrously that the Pulse nightclub shooting wouldn’t have happened if someone there had a gun even though there was an armed security guard there, *hired a senior staffer who cited the non-existent Bowling Green Massacre as a reason to ban Muslims, *had a press secretary who claimed that Nazi Germany never used chemical weapons even though every sane human being knows they used gas to kill millions of Jews and others,

*bilked the Secret Service for higher than market rates when they had to stay at Trump properties,

*apparently sold pardons on his way out of the White House,

*stripped protective status from 59,000 Haitians, *falsely claimed Biden wanted to defund the police, *said that the head of the CDC didn’t know what he was talking about,

*tried to rescind protection from DREAMers,

*gave himself an A+ for his handling of the pandemic, *tried to start a boycott of Goodyear tires due to an Internet hoax,

*said U.S. rates of COVID would be lower if you didn’t count blue states,

*deported U.S. veterans who served their country but were undocumented,

*claimed he did more for African Americans than any president since Lincoln,

*touted a “super-duper” secret “hydrosonic” missile which may or may not be a new “hypersonic” missile or may not exist at all,

*retweeted a gif calling Biden a pedophile,

forced through security clearances for his family, *suggested that police officers should rough up suspects,

*suggested that Biden was on performance-enhancing drugs,

*tried to stop transgender students from being able to use school bathrooms in line with their gender, *suggested the US not accept COVID patients from a cruise ship because it would make US numbers look higher,

*nominated a climate change sceptic to chair the committee advising the White House on environmental policy,

*retweeted a video doctored to look like Biden had played a song called “Fuck tha Police” at a campaign event,

*hugged a disturbingly large number of U.S. flags, accused Democrats of “treason” for not applauding his State of the Union address,

*claimed that the FBI failed to capture the Parkland school shooter because they were “spending too much time” on Russia,

*mocked the testimony of Dr Christine Blasey Ford when she accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, *obsessed over low-flow toilets,

*ordered the rerelease of more COVID vaccines when there weren’t any to release,

*called for the construction of a bizarre garden of heroes with statutes of famous dead Americans as well as at least one Canadian (Alex Trebek),

*hijacked Washington’s July 4th celebrations to give a partisan speech,

*took advice from the MyPillow guy,

*claimed that migrants seeking a better life in the US were dangerous caravans of drug dealers and rapists, *said nothing when Vladimir Putin poisoned a leading opposition figure,

*never seemed to heed the advice of his wife’s “Be Best” campaign,

*falsely claimed that mail-in voting is fraudulent, *announced a precipitous withdrawal of troops from Syria which not only handed Russia and ISIS a win but also prompted his defense secretary to resign in protest,

*insulted the leader of Canada,

*insulted the leader of France,

*insulted the leader of Britain,

*insulted the leader of Germany,

*insulted the leader of Sweden (Sweden!!),

*falsely claimed credit for getting NATO members to increase their share of dues,

*blew off two Asia summits even though they were held virtually,

*continued lying about spending lots of time at Ground Zero with 9/11 responders,

*said that the Japanese would sit back and watch their “Sony televisions” if the US were ever attacked,

*left a NATO summit early in a huff,

*stared directly into an eclipse even though everyone over the age of 5 knows not to do that,

*called himself a very stable genius despite significant evidence to the contrary,

*refused to commit to a peaceful transfer of power and kept his promise,

and a whole bunch of other things I can’t remember at the moment.

But other than that. . .

Whoever wrote this deserves credit but I don't know who it is. And don’t forget - took many classified & top secret documents with him when he left the White House, many of which have not been recovered & may have been auctioned to the highest bidder.

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Body recovered from Lake Minnetonka, investigation underway : Inside US

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn – An investigation is underway after a body was found in Lake Minnetonka. According to the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office, officers responded to reports of a body in Lafayette Bay on Lake Minnetonka around 11am Monday. The body of an adult female was recovered by the Mound Fire Department. The original report was made by someone in a fishing boat. The Hennepin County Sheriff’s…

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Two people are dead, and one is injured after a shooting at a recording studio in Laurel, Maryland, overnight Tuesday. The victims are Laurel's first two homicides of the year, police confirmed.

A shooting was reported at the 600 block of Lafayette Avenue at about 1:30 a.m. Officers found two victims had been shot, according to the Laurel Police Department.

Track House Studios DMV is located in the industrial-like area near train tracks. News4 has reached out to the recording studio for comment.

“Upon arrival, officers actually found that two people had been wounded by gunshots, provided immediate medical attention to them. The fire department came and assisted as well,” Laurel Chief of Police Russell Hamill said. “Sadly, unfortunately, one passed away on scene.”

A second victim was taken to a hospital, where they died from their injuries.

The victims' identities were not immediately released.

A third victim who was shot took themselves to the hospital to receive treatment. That person's condition is currently unknown.

“Early indications are that there were two groups of individuals, there was some sort of argument developed," Laurel Police Deputy Chief Mark Plazinski. "So, I would say that there's not a general threat to the public, other than the fact that there’s folks out there using firearms to resolve their differences, which is not a good thing.”

News4’s Pat Collins reported on a robbery that happened at the same address over 12 years ago.

Anyone with information is asked to contact police.

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What happened to Claudia on WOAI?Īside from a TV host, Claudia Garofalo is a pro-singer. The chest tube was necessary to keep her breathing in the intensive care unit. She was taken in an ambulance to the BAMC Trauma Unit, where she quickly had a chest tube inserted. What is wrong with Ursula Pari?īut Pari was going so fast and bailed out so hard that she crushed her ribcage, punctured her right lung, broke her collarbone and thumb. The San Antonio Association of Hispanic Journalists said it’s “troubled” by the firing of KSAT 12 news anchor Isis Romero weeks after she co-led a study showing that Latinx people are underrepresented on local anchor desks. She recently joined Morgan’s Wonderland, as director of marketing and social media. Mouton, who spent 21 years with KSAT, announced her resignation last June. Jonathan joined the News 4 San Antonio team from KPRC-TV, Houston’s NBC affiliate, in November. Jonathan Martinez joined the News 4 San Antonio team in November 2021, co-anchoring the 6:00, 6:30 and 10:00 newscasts with Simone De Alba. Diana Rocco is co-anchoring News 4 San Antonio Today with David Chancellor. Who is the new anchor on News 4 San Antonio?Ī new face has joined the morning team at News 4 San Antonio. Martinez will co-anchor the evening and late newscasts with Simone De Alba at the anchor desk for the station’s 5, 6, 6:30 and 10 p.m. Jonathan Martinez will be joining the News 4 San Antonio family replacing TV legend Randy Beamer, who retired in March. The Ponting sledge that fired up Shoaib AkhtarĢ4.0 similar questions has been found Who did Jonathan Martinez replace on news 4? Mathieu, 50, will neither confirm nor deny that the layoffs were the reason she left the station. Sinclair, which slashed its workforce nationwide by about 5 percent, blamed the decision on the coronavirus pandemic, according to CNN. She is a regular contributor to KSAT 12 and anchors KSAT 12 News at Noon and the News at 5 weekdays. , where she has remained happily in the warmth. Portland, Maine, then back south to Texas Ursula’s career has taken her from her Cajun hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana, to Large hail, damaging winds, and isolated tornadoes are possible. President Joe Biden host a Cinco de Mayo reception with Beatriz Gutiérrez Mueller de López Obrador, wife of the president of Mexico. Who left News 4 San Antonio?Īpril Molina departs News 4 San Antonio, on to new chapter | WOAI. The anchors from competing networks divorced in 2007. Is Randy Beamer currently married?īeamer turned heads again a few years later when he married KSAT-TV anchor Ursula Pari in 2000. She is an animal lover & owns multiple pets – two horses, two hamsters, three fish, and cat named Ninja! Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB No confirmed information available on her birth year or the date she was born.Beamer retired in March from News 4 San Antonio after 32 years of service to our amazing audience, and more than 35 years serving our market.Visiting New Zealand, Vietnam, Thailand, and Sicily is on Pari’s bucket list.Her favorite music is the adult alternative genre and music by Alison Krauss.She also likes to cook three meals a day, and binge-watch shows like Game of Thrones, Russian Doll, and Homeland. Riding horses and playing polo are some of her favorite activities.She helps these organizations get the word out about what they do. Ursula enjoys volunteering for non-profits such as Aid the Silent, Hidden Springs Ranch, Rise Recovery, Casa, Roy Mass Youth Alternatives, and the Boys and Girls Clubs.She said this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because not many people get a chance to interview Oprah. One of Ursula’s proudest moments in journalism has been interviewing billionaire Oprah Winfrey in Chicago.

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