Tom Yossarian Joad
Tom Yossarian Joad's JournalMr. tRump, That was not a raid...
It was a group of friendly FBI agents touring Mar A Largo.
(paraphrased from a FB meme)
tRump should have hired Fawn Hall for document removal...
"National Security Council staff member Oliver North and his secretary, Fawn Hall, begin shredding documents that would have exposed their participation in a range of illegal activities regarding the sale of arms to Iran and the diversion of the proceeds to a rebel Nicaraguan group. On November 25, North was fired but Hall continued to sneak documents to him by stuffing them in her skirt and boots. The Iran-Contra scandal, as it came to be known, became an embarrassment and a sticky legal problem for the Reagan administration."
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/oliver-north-starts-feeding-documents-into-the-shredding-machine
What the hell is it with republicans and documents?
Alex Jones Sent 'Intimate Photo' Of His Wife To Roger Stone, Lawyer Says
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alex-jones-naked-photo-wife-roger-stone_n_62f24453e4b0133dd5b2cf9dAlex Jones, the Infowars host who’s been ordered to pay tens of millions in damages for spreading lies that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, may now have another problem closer to home.
The far-right conspiracy theorist sent an “intimate photo” of his wife to longtime Donald Trump crony Roger Stone, according to a lawyer for the Sandy Hook parents who won their defamation lawsuit against Jones. (Watch the video below.)
Attorney Mark Bankston previously revealed that lawyers for Jones accidentally sent him two years of Jones’s text messages, including intimate ones. On Monday, Bankston told “The Young Turks” that one text contained an “intimate photo” of Jones’ wife that was sent to far-right provocateur Stone.
“I’m a little concerned about it because that intimate photo was sent to Roger Stone, and I don’t know if that was consensual,” Bankston said. /SNIP
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Curious as to an innocuous post af an old music video gets ignored by a segment
by a long shot while a 1 rec posts on the front page while a 11 remains ignored. However the post in question is by no means political.
On edit, the darned thing isn't in the sideline list of videos.
Just because we might need a break at the moment...
I'll call it. We are now an oligarchy (albeit a late call)
Just like the guy attending his son's gay marriage and then voting against it... He was only doing what he was paid to do.
And in today's America, money trumps any moral.
The Supreme Court Is Making America Ungovernable (The Atlantic)
Like many governmental agencies, the Environmental Protection Agency has an elaborate process for developing important rules. As I saw during the Obama administration, when I headed the EPA office that oversees this process, getting a major rule over the finish line can take years. Almost every step of the way offers obstacles to addressing any serious environmental problem.
This work just got much harder, if not altogether impossible. In West Virginia v. EPA, the Supreme Court held that Congress may not authorize an administrative agency like the EPA to address an issue of great economic and political significance—in the Court’s parlance, a “major question”—unless Congress speaks extremely precisely in doing so. Broad statutory language, written with the aim of empowering an agency to take on new problems in new ways, will no longer suffice.
The Court’s decision has the immediate effect of limiting the EPA’s power and flexibility in regulating fossil-fuel-fired power plants under the Clean Air Act. But it extends beyond that: Any agency that asserts authority over an issue of great economic and political significance could meet a hostile reception in the courts precisely because it has tried to do something big. Many agencies will just avoid taking such actions in the first place, knowing the risk. The obvious result could be a federal government with little ability to tackle many of the biggest issues society faces.
The specific focus of the Court’s decision was an EPA regulation, known as the Clean Power Plan, that set emission limits for power plants in part by shifting electricity generation from coal-fired power plants to gas-fired power plants and renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power. Soon after the EPA issued the rule, the Supreme Court used its shadow docket—rulings it makes without full briefing and oral argument—to stop the rule from ever taking effect. Even so, the emission reductions required by the rule were met on time and without any of the catastrophic effects that the rule’s challengers had conjured. By the time the Supreme Court had determined the validity of the rule, in other words, real-world events had proved its modesty and workability.
/SNIP
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/07/supreme-court-major-questions-doctrine-congress/670618/?fbclid=IwAR2jCINWU2Zan9H0kMV63pAhNBE0Pkyez5iX7wkovkq2hnqiwQ96d24wWhw
Donald Trump wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor as President (OMFG)
Donald Trump has admitted that he wanted to give himself the Congressional Medal of Honor as President, but was denied.
The former leader of the US admitted as much during an appearance at Turning Point USA's Student Action Summit, telling the conservative conference that he had pushed to be awarded the medal.
https://www.indy100.com/politics/donald-trump-medal-of-honor
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1550999295964303360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1550999295964303360%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdonald-trump-medal-of-honor
Trumps Island...
Parkland survivor David Hogg was kicked out of a House gun control meeting after tearing into Rep. A
Source: Insider
(Complete Headline: Parkland survivor David Hogg was kicked out of a House gun control meeting after tearing into Rep. Andy Biggs for using the same logic of 'mass shooters in your manifesto')
Parkland survivor David Hogg was thrown out of a House gun control meeting on Wednesday after he accused GOP Rep. Andy Biggs of parroting the same rhetoric employed by gunmen in mass shootings.
The House Judiciary Committee gathered on Wednesday to discuss gun control policies, including the 2021 Assault Weapons Ban and the Equal Access for Victims of Gun Violence Act.
During the meeting, Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, claimed Americans, specifically residents of his state, need assault weapons to protect themselves against an "invasion" of undocumented migrants, whom the conservative lawmaker said posed "a danger or threat."
/snip
Biggs' remarks prompted Hogg to rise from his seat in the gallery and yell: "You're reiterating the points of mass shooters in your manifesto!"
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/david-hogg-accused-andy-biggs-reiterating-points-of-mass-shooter-2022-7
It seems to be getting more difficult to speak truth to power.
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