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Tom Yossarian Joad

Tom Yossarian Joad's Journal
Tom Yossarian Joad's Journal
September 18, 2022

Breaking: New York now including tickets to Miami for all State prisoners upon release.

Not really but just an evil thought and should not be taken seriously.

September 18, 2022

Hoping for the best in Puerto Rico right now

But I can't help remembering...

https://people.com/politics/donald-trump-throws-paper-towels-hurricane-maria-survivors-puerto-rico/

By Alexia Fernández Published on October 3, 2017 08:35 PM

President Donald Trump tossed rolls of paper towels into a crowd while visiting Puerto Rico on Tuesday.

The 71-year-old commander in chief was in Gauynabo, Puerto Rico, visiting hurricane survivors at a church when the moment was captured on camera.

September 16, 2022

Trump begins openly embracing and amplifying false fringe QAnon conspiracy theory (PBS)

After winking at QAnon for years, Donald Trump is overtly embracing the baseless conspiracy theory, even as the number of frightening real-world events linked to it grows.

On Tuesday, using his Truth Social platform, the Republican former president reposted an image of himself wearing a Q lapel pin overlaid with the words “The Storm is Coming.” In QAnon lore, the “storm” refers to Trump’s final victory, when supposedly he will regain power and his opponents will be tried, and potentially executed, on live television.

As Trump contemplates another run for the presidency and has become increasingly assertive in the Republican primary process during the midterm elections, his actions show that far from distancing himself from the political fringe, he is welcoming it.

Trump’s recent postings have included images referring to himself as a martyr fighting criminals, psychopaths and the so-called deep state. In one now-deleted post from late August, he reposted a “q drop,” one of the cryptic message board postings that QAnon supporters claim come from an anonymous government worker with top secret clearance.


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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-begins-openly-embracing-and-amplifying-false-fringe-qanon-conspiracy-theory?fbclid=IwAR1m7iTwqWkYN0Ss5xWrhK8P87g4n07f1ep7dLK3FrtltZyNw_BGHzDmU9w

September 16, 2022

Asked on FB...

Without a queen to lay eggs, how will more British people be born?


September 16, 2022

Putin 'survives assassination attempt when he was targeted in his limo'

Source: Metro (UK)

The Russian president is said to have been targeted when ‘a loud bang sounded from the left front wheel’ before ‘heavy smoke’ billowed out.

According to the anti-Kremlin Telegram channel General SVR, Putin was travelling in the third car of a five-vehicle convoy on an unknown day.

The post read: ‘The first escort car was blocked by an ambulance and the second escort car drove around without stopping because of the sudden obstacle.’

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The Kremlin has since arrested multiple people, including several of Putin’s bodyguards, according to the Telegram channel. /snip

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2022/09/15/putins-limousine-hit-by-loud-bang-in-assassination-attempt-17379773/



Not sure on this source but here it is warts and all.
September 15, 2022

DeSantis is a prick.

Abbott is right there with him.

Fuck 'em both.

There. I feel a little better now.

September 14, 2022

Sins of our Mother... YIKES!

Truly disturbing true crime documentary on Netflix.

September 14, 2022

Watching the seconds tick by until

Trump starts a Go Fund Me page to buy Lindell a new phone.

September 13, 2022

Mary Peltola, first Alaska Native elected to Congress, will be sworn in today

Source: NPR

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Democrat Mary Peltola will be sworn in as a member of Congress. But Monday morning she was talking to reporters in front of a locked door to what was Congressman Don Young's office, across the street from the U.S. Capitol.

"I don't have keys yet," she said, between interviews with Time Magazine and CBS. "I'm not officially a member yet, so I am standing here as one of Don's constituents."

Alaskans elected Peltola to fill the remainder of Young's term. Alaska's sole seat in the House has been vacant since he died in March.

Mary Peltola, the first Alaska Native heading to Congress, journeys home to the river
Peltola is drawing an unusual amount of national media attention as the first Alaska Native elected to Congress, and even more because of her special election win over Sarah Palin, a former Alaska governor endorsed by former President Donald Trump. She's receiving more than 100 interview requests a day, her new spokesman said. /snip

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2022/09/13/1122705880/mary-peltola-first-alaska-native-elected-to-congress-will-be-sworn-in-today?fbclid=IwAR2JJ6j6_JANNuQz4yGw_ZvyVJXCR2KdnTX5AZEQZ_DbiysBGIjdvSpdQj8

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