[Bee] fter suspicions arose from users over lingering bias and political suppression, owner/billionaire/inventor Elon Musk immediately set out to find the responsible employees by building an elaborate trap baited with avocado toast.
"I hear woke millennials just can't resist avocado toast," Musk was heard murmuring as he constructed the complex apparatus of the trap. "My vast knowledge of industry and technology has taught me that if I'm ever going to root out the source of censorship at Twitter, this is how I must do it."
Users had begun to raise concerns about instances of ongoing unfairness, leading to the belief that people with "woke" agendas still remained employed at the company. Fortunately, Musk's trap is specifically designed to catch hipster millennial tech employees. "It starts with turning a large crank," Musk explained. "It then involves a combination of elements, including a rolling marble, an old bathtub, and a figurine of a man diving into a small swimming pool before a string pulls out a stick propping up a wooden box that drops down onto the individual — or individuals — eating the avocado toast. It is, without question, my greatest invention."
At a cost of just shy of $6 billion, the trap is seen by Musk as a bargain. "If I spent $44 billion to buy the company, this is a small price to pay to weed out problem employees," he said.
At publishing time, no one had taken the bait as the toast wasn't gluten-free.
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I packed an avocado for my lunch. I would not pass this insidious test.
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Whatevs. Same as it every was. "What is a Women" the Daily Wire documentary is defacto banned on Twitter. Because, as Musk said, misgendering.
The mossomo challege: Watch it and tell me where the misgendering occurs. Do normies even now what misgendering is?
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I think the hysteria these "trans" individuals wallow in when they are "mis-gendered" is about as valid as someone screaming at waitstaff because their credit card was denied.
Reality is what is. Not what someone says / thinks / feels / hallucinates is.
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[The Blaze] Elon Musk has indicated that he will actively push to criminalize the performing permanent gender-transition measures on children who have not reached the age of consent.
"This is a major problem. I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent. Shame on those who advocate this! It is utterly contemptible," Musk wrote in a tweet on Thursday.
In an April tweet, Musk had noted, "My position is simply that we should wait until an individual is mature enough to make their own decisions before other adults make permanent, serious physical changes to them."
Musk, who owns Twitter, has said that he uses people's preferred pronouns, just like he uses preferred names, as a matter of "good manners."
Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas responded to Front Page Magazine’s story exposing the fact that President Biden had nominated Kimberly Marteau Emerson to the Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Holocaust Memorial Council acts as the board of trustees for the Holocaust Museum. Emerson, apart from being the wife of John Emerson. a Democrat operative and financial bigwig, picked by Obama to be his ambassador to Germany, is a board member of Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch has repeatedly and falsely accused Israel of “apartheid”. Its personnel have advocated for terrorists and for the murder of Jews, and even spread traditional blood libels.
Senator Cotton responded to the FrontPageMag expose by tweeting that, “No one leading a group that wants to destroy the one Jewish state should be on the board of the Holocaust Museum. Another terrible pick from President Biden.”
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also denounced the move, tweeting, “completely inappropriate.”
Ever since Front Page Magazine’s story original story came out, a variety of public figures have rallied to oppose Kimberly Marteau Emerson’s nomination including journalist Caroline Glick and pro-Israel activists.
Front Page Magazine will continue exposing and fighting the Biden administration’s campaign of hate and radical appointees waging war on the Jewish State.
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[REGNUM] Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has signed into law legislation introducing the death penalty or life imprisonment for homosexuality and same-sex transmission of HIV/AIDS.
No problem with heterosexual transmission of HIV/AIDS?
In addition, for the "propaganda" of homosexuality in the country will now be imprisoned for 20 years.
The law also toughens the punishments for same-sex sex that previously existed in the country, up to the death penalty. Such an attack against LGBT people has caused a wave of condemnation from human rights organizations, HIV foundations and Western leaders. The United States warned Uganda about the possible economic consequences of the adoption of the “anti-homosexual act”.
HOMOPHOBIA AND PAN-AFRICANISM
Africa has always had the reputation of being the most homophobic continent. In thirty-eight African countries, relationships between people of the same sex are punishable by imprisonment or even the death penalty, as in Sudan and Mauritania.
And the point here is not the economic or cultural "backwardness" of African countries and the harsh local customs, as the Western media write. Or rather, not only in this. The growth of homophobic sentiments here is inextricably linked with the awakening of national identity and the growth of pan-African sentiments.
Homosexuality in Africa is regarded as "a disease that came from the West."
No doubt it came with the conquest of Islam first — look at the Pashtuns and their historic fondness for beautiful boys.
And the more African countries will claim sovereignty and independence from Western countries in political terms, the greater will be homophobic sentiments and the severity of laws in this area.
Thus, the general discourse of Pan-Africanism as "genuine freedom" and getting rid of post-colonial forms of dependence (in the sphere of economy, culture and elsewhere) is inextricably linked with homophobia. We will not go far and note that in Russia the fight against LGBT propaganda is a significant moment in the general ideology of confrontation with the West.
Let's fix it once again: the fight against homosexuality actually means the continuation of the "fight with the West" and the fight for the political subjectivity of Africa.
Accordingly, the political elites of African countries are unlikely to leave the "slippery homophobic path" even under the threat of sanctions pressure. Moreover, if these sanctions are followed, they will only become another factor in the consolidation of the authorities and society in the fight against attempts of external interference.
WILL UGANDA SURVIVE?
A similar situation has already developed in Uganda. It was in 2014 when Western governments suspended some aid, imposed visa restrictions, and cut back on security cooperation in favor of a less strict anti-LGBTQ law. In response, the Constitutional Court of Uganda invalidated that law.
At the level of rhetoric, today everything is going according to the same scenario. And it is logical to assume that the sensational law will become only a bargaining chip in the negotiations between local authorities and international organizations.
There is a lot in the balance for Uganda. The country receives billions of dollars, including for the fight against AIDS and malaria, but now it may face more sanctions.
The head of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Volker Türk, has already called the law's text " discriminatory" and suggested that it is "the world's worst of its kind ". OHCHR said it was " alarmed " by the entry into force of this " draconian and discriminatory " bill, " contrary to the Constitution and international treaties," which paves the way for "systematic violations of LGBT rights."
U.S. President Joe Biden also condemned the "tragic violation" of human rights and is exploring the implications of the law for "every aspect of U.S.-Uganda cooperation," including aid and investment.
"Uganda's failure to protect the rights of LGBTQI+ people is part of a broader human rights violation in the country," US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said , referring to visa restrictions.
The head of European Union (EU) diplomacy, Josep Borrell, said in a press release about the "regrettable" and " contrary to human rights " law.
The United Kingdom, for its part, said it was "alarmed that the government of Uganda has signed a deeply discriminatory law against homosexuality," Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Andrew Mitchell said in a press release.
An increasing number of countries are raising the flag of the fight against colonialism, including in the format of armed confrontation, as is happening on the territory of Ukraine.
Under these conditions, Western countries can turn a blind eye to the target audience and their most likely supporters in third world countries. Otherwise, using the example of Uganda for the West, one more country on the continent, which plays an important role in the East African region, may be lost.
Parliamentarians of Uganda, in turn, have already stated that they are ready to “take a closer look at partners from Arab countries ”, for whom gender issues do not matter in business interactions, in response to external pressure attempts.
COURSE TOWARDS TRADITIONALISM
However, the point is not only the populism of the authorities of a number of African countries or the mood in society. Homophobia reflects a general trend in Africa toward adherence to traditional values.
For example, half of the participating countries that signed the Global Pact against Abortion are representatives of the African continent: Burkina Faso, Gambia, Djibouti, Zambia, Cameroon, Kenya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Congo, Libya, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Kingdom Eswatini
...formerly known as Swaziland...
and South Sudan.
Not something that would fly in Russia, where abortion was the primary method of birth control during the Soviet period — and perhaps still is.
The non-binding declaration states that it aims to improve women's health, preserve human life and strengthen the family.
"We, the representatives of our sovereign countries, hereby declare, in a spirit of mutual friendship and respect, our commitment to work together to reaffirm the absence of an international right to abortion," the statement said.
Its authors place particular emphasis on the theme of sovereignty: "Any action or change regarding abortion within the health care system can be implemented at the national or local level only in accordance with national legislation."
The ideology of this document is formulated as follows: "Abortion should not be encouraged as one of the methods of family planning <…> the child <…> needs special protection and care <…> both before and after birth."
This declaration brings together countries as diverse as Poland and Hungary on the one hand, Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the other.
Less people means more oxygen. The West stopped masking its ideology
The United States, during the presidency of Donald Trump, also signed a declaration against abortion and became the 32nd among countries that together represent 1.6 billion people. On October 22, 2020, a virtual signing ceremony of the “Declaration of the Geneva Consensus” (Global Pact against Abortion) was held, among the initiating countries were Hungary, Egypt and Indonesia.
How to explain the fact that, relatively speaking, countries that are accused of adhering to the ideology of white supremacy (Hungary and Poland) sign a declaration with fifteen African states? Obviously, along with religious, racial and ecological contradictions, in a much sharper form, the world is divided along gender lines.
I’m confused.
A new hot war divides the world into two blocks: on the one hand, patriarchal states, on the other, territories where a feminine revolution has already taken place.
Does the author understand the difference between hot war and cold war?
And in this sense, Africa, despite everything but (political instability and economic disorder), remains a space free from left-liberal dictatorship. African states today are becoming the vanguard of traditionalist resistance.
ANTICOVID MOODS
Another touch to all of the above is the clear covid dissidence of African countries during the period of global pandemic restrictions in 2020-2021. Africa then showed vivid manifestations of "rebellion".
Recall that the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, to the last tried to resist the dictatorship of WHO. He was a statist and tried to maintain sovereignty not only in relation to opposing murderous quarantine measures.
Magufuli also censored any information coming from the West, refused to buy Western vaccines with funds allocated under international aid, and bought a medicine for COVID-19 based on wormwood extract from Madagascarians.
Tanzania has been a real oasis of freedom (including for our tourists) in the midst of a global lockdown in 2020 and 2021.
Thus, we have a certain triad of “anti-Western” sentiments on the Black Continent: “against LGBT”, “against covid”, “against colonialism.”
Of course, these sentiments, which are extremely popular in society, are not always realized in the form of political decisions taken by the authorities. Most often, the issue is resolved through negotiations and assurances of financial support from international institutions.
In general, there is a trend. Much more interesting and fair, unlike the carnival called BLM. African countries, as their own elites awaken, are increasingly becoming at the forefront of traditionalist resistance to left-liberal world “values”.
All these processes can be viewed as a favorable factor for the intensification of Russia's foreign policy efforts in the African direction.
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Is calling the African continent Homophonic sort of Racist or is that now lower in the woke echelon? I’m not talking reality; I have trouble identifying trump suits in the liberal game of political bridge.
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[REGNUM] In the ideological struggle of creatives on the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, the parties now clashed for the sacred: borscht, which was coolly brewed in politics. If, until recently, the Belarusian border guards tried to influence the minds of their neighbors with banners, now they have made a move that is outrageous in its impudence.
A pleasant female voice, accompanied by a calm melody in a folk style, read into the loudspeaker a text in Ukrainian that Ukrainian and Belarusian borscht are “borscht-neighbors” and “borscht-relatives”, although one has beans, and the other has more potatoes. While in European cuisine there are no dishes even "vaguely reminiscent" of it.
This is the basis of our common East Slavic identity, Belarusians say to Ukrainians. “When you have nothing to cook borsch with, come over to our side. Try our Belarusian borscht. You will not regret". You've lost your way, waiting for you at home with a large pot of fire brew.
The Ukrainian State Border Service did not want to record counter-rolls, responding in writing with bullying and threats and accusing the counterpart of having " stabbed a knife in the back ." And from that moment on, Belarusian borscht turned into Russian cabbage soup, and no matter how many tubers you add there, you get “allied soup”.
"We are not slaves to taste your Belarusian borscht. We advise you to change the “ingredients” and become a free people, not forcibly imprisoned," choke on your gruel, we don’t invite you to visit, but if you come, you will regret it.
At the same time, of course, the global hysteria perpetrated without the participation of border guards about the Ukrainian nationality of borscht, which ended with its inclusion in the UNESCO intangible heritage list “in connection with the conflict in the country,” remains in the background. Ukrainian borsch, thus, also became a symbol of the struggle for freedom, and it is natural that its comparison with the same Belarusian (or, God forbid, Russian) causes terrible indignation in the patriotic environment.
It looks even funnier than before, if you remember that in the Western world, borscht was a symbol of communism until the early 90s, and then became a symbol of ... Russians.
Why borscht? Yes, because it comes from Eastern Europe, red like bolshevik and just as incomprehensible. In numerous Hollywood films, since the 1940s, when the spy Mr. Borsch first appeared, the terrible vegetable soup was first a sign of confrontation on the ground, in the air, and even in space, where another symbol of freedom, a hamburger, opposed the plate of the "first".
And before this important event, he more than once figured in the battles of two worlds, two ways of life. In one of the episodes of the 1960s superhero TV series Batman, the main characters fell into the clutches of Olga, the queen of the Bessarovo Cossacks, and she immediately set out to cook the traditional Bessarovo wedding borscht out of them. By tradition, it is always boiled from prisoners, explains Olga, who calls Batman and Robin in her own way Father and Robonchik.
The chef with a heavy Russian accent exults, anticipating that this will be the best borscht of his career, suddenly singing "Volga Batman" to the tune of the famous "Hey, uhnem" (or "Dubinushka") - in English translation this song is called The Volga Boatman, salt jokes are obvious. The battle for freedom takes place to "Sailor's Dance" from Gliere's The Red Poppy, better known as The Apple, as the Cossack cook continues to crush beets into a giant cauldron.
Just one huge stereotype, where borscht is the same part of an incomprehensible and wild world, where everyone wears beards, walks with balalaikas, tame bears and in fur earflaps with red partisan ribbons diagonally. Exactly what the American audience, carefully prepared by propaganda, expected to see.
When times changed, the image of a political enemy turned into an image of a bandit, and the “Russian mafia” began to appear on the screens more and more often, sometimes taking on other national features. And this mafia always cooks and eats borscht, which can be called a reliable marker: you see a pot with a characteristic content - there is a gangster's nest. And given the many years of participation in the anti-Soviet and criminal context, the word "borscht" entered the language skirmishes between the characters in the same way that gastronomic preferences are used to insult the French or Italians. In The Equalizer it was pierogi
“I never liked those borsche-eating bastards,” the Marvel comics hero used to say. In the James Bond film GoldenEye (1995), a hacker named Boris Grishchenko taunts colleague Natasha about cracking his password: "I made it easy this time. Even you should be able to break it, borscht-instead-of-brains (borscht-for-brains)."
As a state of aggregation, the dish is also mentioned in an old Bond movie of the late 1980s with Timothy Dalton: he is warned what the defector Georgy Koskov will turn into inside the pipe if the valve is not opened in time. Or in the Canadian-American violent hockey comedy The Bouncer (2011), in a quarrel between players, among other things, you can hear the compound expletive "You fucking Slavic borsch-blooded cabbage-headed weirdos."
At the same time, in relation to pure cooking in America, borscht is widely considered to be a Jewish dish. Jews who massively moved to the United States away from the pogroms in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries began to settle in the Catskill Mountains of New York State, a favorite vacation spot for many, around 1890.
By the 1920s, there was already a whole chain of hotels that even had their own farms. The mountains became the “Jewish Alps”, and the whole area got an unofficial name: Borscht Belt (“Borscht Belt”), because the indispensable dish in these hotels was borscht, which emigrants brought with them to their new homeland and are still sold in banks.
And in terms of its content, the current borscht, for which Ukrainians are fighting with foam at the mouth in the UN, is rather American: neither tomatoes, nor potatoes, nor beans, nor sunflowers, from which oil is extracted for frying, are “original” and “traditional” . And red beets were bred by German gardeners in the 16th century.
The traditional one is a brew of edible hogweed, “borscht”, which gave the name to the dish, with the addition of any other edible herb and green onions. In this form, he is also known to all Slavic (as well as non-Slavic) peoples.
As a matter of fact, the classic recipe for "Ukrainian borscht", now protected by UNESCO, is enshrined in the Soviet culture of canteens and was on the menu of any self-respecting catering establishment. From where he got into the Hollywood message box as a Russian-Soviet symbol.
“Dinner was very simple. For the first - thick Ukrainian borscht, for the second - well-cooked buckwheat porridge and a lot of boiled meat, for the third - compote and fruit , ”describes the evening at Stalin’s dacha before the war, the future marshal Georgy Zhukov . And the word “Ukrainian” here simply means a recipe from a cookbook that has little in common with the folk way of life and the “cultural phenomenon” that formed some kind of nation.
Actually, the real, classic Ukrainian borscht No. 1 is lean, with small carp, as Taras Shevchenko liked, where dry or dry-fried fish and millet are added, without any tomatoes, on roots and beetroot kvass (brine).
And in the fast days, they tried to make all food fatter, so the classic Ukrainian borscht No. 2 is a variant on quickly cooked pork, roasted on goose lard and pounded with old lard and garlic. Also without tomatoes and on beetroot kvass with white beans.
Neither the first nor the second dish is currently being prepared, since such a batch would make any patriot turn up right on the vyshyvanka. Vyshyvanka is the embroidered shirt worn by Ukrainians
By the way, the Belarusian borscht, just like the Ukrainian one, is seasoned with lard, boiled with meat, and it is supposed to be fried with lard. And in order not to be confused with their neighbors, the Belarusians came up with the idea of putting smoked meats in the pan, first of all, dry-cured Polendvitsa. Initially, there were no potatoes in it at all, only cabbage. Polendvitsa is cured meat
And the classic Russian meat borscht in the average version was cooked on beef brisket broth with the addition of ham and beet kvass, as well as beets with roots sauteed in cow's oil. Tomatoes, if they are added there at the insistence of some culinary authors of the 19th century, are also only separately. Cabbage is still present.
All this is a single food code that has developed in the same space. And borscht is also well known to Poles, Lithuanians, Romanians and Moldovans, who cook it somewhere similar, somewhere else: there are hundreds of recipes. And you don’t need to convince someone of this through a loudspeaker.
Such creativity is unlikely to work when dealing with unhealthy people who do not accept any logic and any facts. But, knowing in advance their reactions, it is much more rational to live happily, demonstrating this with pleasure. A full-screen broadcast of a leisurely lunch, where a Belarusian border guard with a smile consumes wonderfully cooked borscht, dipping green onion feathers in salt and not forgetting veined lard, is a weapon worse than an atomic bomb.
And at the end he also asks: “Well, son, did your UNESCO help you?”
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This is like the Irish and Polish (of which I have both heritages) fighting over who's better with potatoes. The Frenchy in me would probably cook ducks or snails, maybe both.
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And in terms of its content, the current borscht, for which Ukrainians are fighting with foam at the mouth in the UN, is rather American: neither tomatoes, nor potatoes, nor beans, nor sunflowers, from which oil is extracted for frying, are “original” and “traditional”
Modern people don't realize how few traditional foods are really traditional -- basically the local poor people cooked up something to avoid starvation and tried to make it as tasty as possible. Meat, lard, seasonings and even salt were 'luxuries'. It's amusing to hear them talk sometimes.
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It's amazing how fast the Russians went from "Of course they're the same people as us" to "and those mudderfothers eat the degraded UNESCO borsch..."
[AmThinker, hat tip to AOSHQ Morning Brief] Jesse Morgan drove a tractor trailer for a contractor working for the U.S. Postal Service. Shortly after the 2020 election, Morgan made these claims at a press conference held by the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society: See Related link below.
On October 21, 2020, Jesse drove his truck and trailer from Bethpage, New York, to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, loaded with as many as 288,000 completed ballots. In addition, there were two large trays of mixed mail, bound for Lancaster. Those were in the front of the trailer.
Jesse drove the trailer to Harrisburg, but was not allowed to unload. After a six-hour wait, he was told to drive to Lancaster, without unloading at Harrisburg. In addition, the supervisor in Harrisburg refused to give him any paperwork to document his arrival in Harrisburg or his six-hour wait, which normally would justify extra compensation.
Jesse Morgan was perplexed by these instructions because "95 percent" of the load was for Harrisburg, and that mail would have to be unloaded before anyone could get access to the Lancaster mail bins. After that, the Harrisburg mail would have to be returned to the trailer and driven back to Harrisburg. Even for the government, that is slightly inefficient.
As instructed, Morgan drove the tractor trailer to Lancaster, and parked it in his usual spot. The next morning, the trailer had disappeared, without explanation. The trailer and the ballots were gone, and no one would explain to Morgan, or anyone else in this world, what had happened.
Jesse tells his story on this video.
Now, you might think that this is a yarn that Morgan made up, but you’d be wrong. In its highly-redacted "Closing Memorandum," the Post Office Inspector General (OIG) does not deny that Morgan was a subcontractor truck driver who took mail from Bethpage to Harrisburg, and then to Lancaster. The OIG claims that Morgan identified the wrong trailer number, and that his estimate of ballots could be much lower. The OIG also asserts:
Postal service employees working on October 21st could not recall directing [Morgan] to proceed to Lancaster (emphasis added).
Wow! Does the Post Office keep a written record when it sends a big tractor trailer from one city to another? Or, does it simply let the truck drivers decide when and where to take their trucks?
There are other suspicious tidbits in the Closing Memorandum.
In the document, the OIG acknowledges that a contractor in Rochester, New York printed 650,000 general election ballots that went to Pennsylvania. Of the total, 450,000 went to Philadelphia County and 200,000 went to Chester County. In explaining how the printing company delivered the ballots to the Pennsylvania counties, the OIG states:
[Redacted name of printing company] explained, but could not confirm, the ballots for both PA BOEs [Pennsylvania Boards of Elections] were most likely delivered to those respective locations by their delivery trucks, or entered in the mail stream locally in Rochester, NY (emphasis added).
So, after more than a year of investigation, the Post Office IG was still not sure if the two batches of printed ballots were shipped into Pennsylvania in trucks owned by the printing company, or were taken to Rochester-area post offices to be delivered in government trucks. Wouldn’t the Post Office know whether or not it delivered the 650,000 ballots?
And, what about the printing company? It printed 650,000 general election ballots, which may have cost close to $200,000 (per-unit cost for printed ballots is $.29 in New York State). Yet, the company didn’t know -- a year and a half later -- how it managed to get the ballots into another state?
But do not worry. According to the memorandum, more information is coming!
[Redacted name of lawyer for printing company] indicated that he would contact his client and confirm the transportation of ballots at a later time (emphasis added).
I wonder when the "later time" will take place. After all, that statement was made in a final "Closing Memorandum," for which I could find no updates.
I am not sure when the Closing Memorandum, which was dated April 11, 2022, was finally posted to the OIG’s website. I have tried multiple times to get information using the Right to Know laws. Last year I was told that the information was being withheld to protect "...witnesses, victims, subjects, and law enforcement personnel to harassment and intimidation as a result of their association with a criminal matter." Then, the story changed.
A month or two ago I was told that the information was being withheld to protect "trade secrets or privileged or confidential commercial or financial information... [that] "could constitute an unwarranted invasion of the personal privacy of third parties." If I ask again the Post Office people will probably claim that the information vanished in a fire. I wish they would settle on one story.
Joe Hoft of the Gateway Pundit conducted a great interview of retired intelligence officer, Tony Schaeffer. Starting at the 12-minute mark, Schaeffer discusses his investigation of Jesse Morgan and Attorney General William Barr’s threats that shut it down.
Early on, Schaeffer was asked by members of the Pennsylvania Senate to thoroughly investigate the Morgan claims. He formed a special team of "former postmasters," who spent a week trying to determine if Morgan’s story was feasible, given normal Post Office procedures. They concluded that it was feasible, and that Morgan was credible.
Schaeffer then asked an acquaintance, former attorney general Ed Meese, to call Barr to inform him of the findings. According to Tony Schaeffer, no more than 10 minutes went by before Barr called him to tell him to stop investigating. Barr spent 20 minutes, essentially yelling at him in a threatening way. Schaeffer asked if Morgan could get whistleblower status, and Barr refused. After that, Morgan dropped out of sight.
Morgan later said that the FBI basically harassed him, was "harassing my family," and wanted to know "how I came on TV." Did they seriously investigate his claims? Not to his knowledge. Jesse Morgan has never recanted his story.
Final point: The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania certified its 2020 election despite the undisputed fact that it had recorded 202,000 more ballots cast than voters. That disparity probably made the election certification illegal under Commonwealth law. Eventually, Pennsylvania "found" more voters, but not enough. To this very day it appears that there were 91,000 more ballots cast than identified voters. Of course, that number exceeds Biden’s winning margin. It also lends credence to the claims of Jesse Morgan. But... let’s not be picayune.
[American Greatness] Republican voters have been bashed over the head repeatedly with the message that Ron DeSantis is the more "electable," new and improved version of Donald Trump. This was always a ridiculous talking point, as if an enigmatic figure such as Trump could be replicated, with all peculiar virtues retained and vices purged. But this shtick for DeSantis had life only so long as it remained an untested hypothesis. Under the pressure of a head-on collision with Trump, the careful ruse of "Trump without the baggage" is collapsing like a cardboard cutout.
DeSantis’ disastrous Twitter launch, rationalized as bold and forward thinking by his supporters, is just the tip of the iceberg. The problem is DeSantis is lacking quite a bit more than Trump’s "baggage." Without his rival’s authenticity or charisma, DeSantis has relied on an annoyingly overbearing political operation to stay afloat. But sly maneuvering is precisely what Republican voters despise most in a politician today. Oddly enough, DeSantis appears to have even changed how he says his last name. One can imagine Trump having a field day with his understudy’s prevarications on the debate stage: "Tell us, Ron, Is it Duh-santis or DEE-santis?"
DeSantis’ surrogates want to talk about nothing but "policy," perhaps as a distraction from the fact that he’s such an uninteresting character. It’s hard to trust a man who isn’t comfortable in his own skin. One could hardly lay such a charge against Trump. His supporters know that the chaos is part of a package deal that comes with a forceful and uncontrollable personality. With DeSantis, they get a boring, vacillating careerist pretending to be his more popular rival. The premise here was bound to end in failure once the rubber hit the road.
Although his crudely obvious shadow campaign has reached a merciful conclusion, now that it’s "official," DeSantis’ candidacy feels like old news. The only difference is that the talking points voters have heard countless times already from Twitter pundits and Fox News and the editorial pages of the New York Post are coming from the governor’s own mouth. He ended his astroturfed Twitter launch by thanking apparently handpicked interlocutors for a "robust debate." It was a strange way to summarize what had just transpired: listeners heard DeSantis read stale talking points for an hour as allies teed up softball questions on his favorite topics. Then he hopped over to Murdoch-owned Fox News to be flattered some more by the weirdly affected Trey Gowdy. Asked how he would handle the war in Ukraine, DeSantis appeared to blow a circuit and started talking about transgenders in the military. "There’s a new sheriff in town," he declared. This is the serious, substantial candidate we’ve heard so much about?
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DeSantis has been a very good governor here in Florida. I shudder to think of any aspect of a Gillum governorship. The people trying to paint him as Paul Ryan or Jeb! version 2.0 are off the mark. As for who he dealt with and how he dealt with them while a congressman, there's no Trump record in that department to compare, so how is it relevant?
As for the "DeSimp" and "meatball" stuff, it says more about the people making those attacks than it does about the individual being attacked.
All that said, it's the same as it ever was. Let the best man win.
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Won't make any difference. Deep state is not going to allow any loss of power. Why do you think DoJ and the FBI are flipping off the House Republicans. People are willing to accept the corrupt ritual of shame elections rather than seriously disrupt their lives.
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I suggest the Meatball stuff is reciprocation for the asshattery of DeSantis' Street Team. Very insulting people. Those folks dont realize the internet is forever. And just b/c Google flushed a sound bite down the memory hole, doesn't mean it no longer exists.
DeSantis Street Team started back in Feb claiming Trump killed all the children with Operation Warp Speed. Not cool. Very bad optics. The DeSimps failed to remember how populous DeSantis was, forgot how Pro-Vax he was in the beginning. And despite our reminders, they cling to their narratives.
I have the audio video of DeSantis praising Fauci, deferring to Fauci, and pushing Fauci to limit domestic air travel. We have shared that with them repeatedly, along with dozens of other colorful remarks by DeSantis. It does not change their tone.
Painting DeSantis as Jeb or Paul Ryan... No. We are pointing out his donors are the same donors who back Jeb and Paul Ryan and Chamber of Commerce. Do you know what a bell curve is? How many deviations from the mean can we expect from DeSantis with his GOPe Donor Class Money? Does anyone think he will go hard on H1B1? No. Do you think there is any chance in hell DeSantis will stop the proxy war with UKR? No.
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