And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[TX-Beau]

At this point it's all about keeping enough of the White folk just angry enough to keep sending in that sweet sweet green! He may lose his business, and perhaps his freedom, or at the very least one of his idiot sons surely will. But none of that matters as long as he can keep fleecing the marks!

For Donald, it always was.

 

[cityboy-stl]

I am sick of Missouri. I feel like I'm living in an insane asylum.

Just Today

1. Our dipshit governor Mike Parson, AKA Mr. Haney, pardons the McCloskey's. You know, the gun waving nuts from last year. Ugh! Despicable.
Mark McCloskey, by-the-way, thinks he is running for Roy Blunt's Senate seat next year.

2. Meanwhile, Covid is running wild. Hospitals are filling up. Cases are rising every day. Mr. Haney is doing nothing, and now a so-called "judge" blocks the St. Louis County mask mandate issued by the County Executive and the Health Department, because the state Attorney General has sued to override the mandate. The block is only temporary at this point. What's stupid is the County Council even voted to override the mask mandate. FreeDumb you know. The mask mandate in the City of St. Louis (which is separate government) is still in effect though, as least for now. But I don't expect it to last long.

3. On top of that, there is a deranged Stage Senator named Andrew Koenig who today introduced a bill to "curb the power of Page (County Exec Dr. Sam Page), health departments, and all local governments to deal with public health emergencies." WTF? Who is suppossed to deal with public health emergencies then? I guess he just wants diseases to run wild.

The brainwashed lunatics are running the asylum.

Missouri governor pardons Mark and Patricia McCloskey [St. Louis Post Dispatch]

 

[rareboy]

Well it doesn't sound like Misery for nothing.

I can't imagine why people continue to live in regressive states.

 

[KaraBulut]

I am sick of Missouri. I feel like I'm living in an insane asylum.

Just Today

1. Our dipshit governor Mike Parson, AKA Mr. Haney, pardons the McCloskey's. You know, the gun waving nuts from last year. Ugh! Despicable.
Mark McCloskey, by-the-way, thinks he is running for Roy Blunt's Senate seat next year...

Same deplorable, different day:

Missouri governor: Pardon of 4-decade inmate not a priority [ABC]

Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says addressing the clemency petition for Kevin Strickland isn't a “priority,” even though prosecutors say Strickland didn’t commit the triple murder that put him behind bars more than four decades ago

Hmm... wonder why Kevin Strickland isn't a priority...

 

[spunkfunker]

What the fuck he still hasn't pardoned Kevin Strickland! A actual innocent man, versus two douchebags wow white is right wins again!

 

[spunkfunker]

Also there's this!

https://www.thebulwark.com/and-eric-schmitt-is-supposed-to-be-the-sane-one/

Good luck Missouri!

 

[TX-Beau]

I'm tempted to defend Texas' title for most batshit political parasite.

 

[KaraBulut]

I'm tempted to defend Texas' title for most batshit political parasite.

As long as there is a Florida and a Mississippi, you'll have to settle for the bronze metal.

Florida had 16,935 cases of COVID-19 and 140 COVID-19 related deaths yesterday. Only 49% of Florida's population is vaccinated. Hospitals in Florida are using their employee cafeteria and conference rooms to treat patients because they are out of beds.

Meanwhile, the Trump wanabee that inhabits the Florida governor's mansion is blaming doctors, reporters and Fauci for being so negative. And he just signed an executive order preventing cities and school districts from requiring masks.

 

[rareboy]

At what point (and I remember asking this question about Trump when he was still in office) do actions like the prevention of masks in schools and public places become tantamount to intentional homicide?

 

[KaraBulut]

At what point (and I remember asking this question about Trump when he was still in office) do actions like the prevention of masks in schools and public places become tantamount to intentional homicide?

Unfortunately, gone are the days when fools like DeSantis and Trump go away in shame. One just has to hope that he can't muster enough fools in the next election to vote for him.

In the continuing race to the bottom, the numbers for Florida and Texas were updated. The estimates from Florida are that 2,065 adults and 47 children were admitted to hospitals yesterday. That brings the number of children with COVID-19 who are hospitalized in Florida to 143.

Florida has 12,373 in their hospitals, followed by Texas with 7,727. That exceeds #2 Texas where 1,318 adults and 40 children were admitted yesterday.

Several public hospitals in Florida are setting up nursing units in the hospital cafeteria or making space in conference rooms for patients on stretchers.

 

[spunkfunker]

At what point (and I remember asking this question about Trump when he was still in office) do actions like the prevention of masks in schools and public places become tantamount to intentional homicide?

Unfortunately rational thought goes out the door with the "Buh muh freedum!!!" crowd. I saw a guy on the news the other day in Mississippi who had covid and was in the hospital. When the reporter asked him why he didn't get the vaccine, he replied that he was from a strong conservative family and he wasn't going to let the government tell him what to do, and freedom or something. I just shook my head. My first thought was to wish the reporter had said that cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure, and many other diseases don't care what your political persuasion is. Still there are governors bragging about how they didn't shut things down trying to score political points to try and position themselves to run in 24' This almost 30 year long campaign of freedom and liberty over almost everything else has brainwashed a lot of people, and unfortunately for the republican party it's killing a lot of their voters.

 

[TX-Beau]

At what point (and I remember asking this question about Trump when he was still in office) do actions like the prevention of masks in schools and public places become tantamount to intentional homicide?

Not by any legal definition. You can't prove their intention was murder. You'd have better luck with manslaughter, it's possible to argue that they willfully disregarded the facts and therefore allowed people to die. All of which supposes that someone is going to prosecute any of them in the first place.

 

[KaraBulut]

Mysterious millions in dark money seem to surround the MAGA crowd... and now the insurrectionists, too.

How This Proud Boy Got $1 Million for Bail [Vice]

Ethan Nordean hopes the cash will convince a judge to free him from jail as he faces conspiracy charges for the Capitol riot. Federal lawyers want to know where the money came from.

Proud Boy “Sergeant-at-Arms” Ethan Nordean has casually turned up nearly $1 million in cash, which he’s hoping will be enough to convince a federal judge to let him out of jail on bond.

But the government thinks that Nordean, aka “Rufio Panman”—who is facing serious conspiracy charges for his alleged actions at the Capitol on January 6—owed them an explanation for how the recently fired restaurant worker came by his newfound fortune.

One day after government lawyers asked for the source of the funds, Nordean’s lawyer told VICE News the money came from his family. His father had previously publicly condemned his son for his association with the Proud Boys.

The recent back-and-forth in court documents filed this week is part of Nordean’s ongoing battle to get out of jail before trial. Until now, the feds have successfully persuaded a judge that messages sent by Nordean in the aftermath of the Capitol riot showed that he remained a committed and die-hard member of the Proud Boys, making him a security risk. Prosecutors have also surfaced evidence that they say shows that Nordean was acting as the group’s de facto leader on January 6.

Nordean is now offering up a bond secured by $1 million in cash, and a home which is worth the same amount, according to his lawyer...

And then there's the mysterious "foundations"...
It's Not About Trump, the My Pillow Guy, or the Insurrectionists. It's About the Money.[Esquire]

...Although the Arizona audit may appear to be the product of local extremists, it has been fed by sophisticated, well-funded national organizations whose boards of directors include some of the country’s wealthiest and highest-profile conservatives. Dark-money organizations, sustained by undisclosed donors, have relentlessly promoted the myth that American elections are rife with fraud, and, according to leaked records of their internal deliberations, they have drafted, supported, and in some cases taken credit for state laws that make it harder to vote...

These disparate nonprofits have one thing in common: they have all received funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. Based in Milwaukee, the private, tax-exempt organization has become an extraordinary force in persuading mainstream Republicans to support radical challenges to election rules—a tactic once relegated to the far right. With an endowment of some eight hundred and fifty million dollars, the foundation funds a network of groups that have been stoking fear about election fraud, in some cases for years. Public records show that, since 2012, the foundation has spent some eighteen million dollars supporting eleven conservative groups involved in election issues....

 

[rareboy]

^ The very rich know that democracy is a threat to them....like the capitalists in Germany and Italy in the 1930's, or Argentina in the 50's, and now in the anti-democratic relics of the USSR, they would be quite content with a right wing dictatorship.

 

[KaraBulut]

^ The very rich know that democracy is a threat to them....like the capitalists in Germany and Italy in the 1930's, or Argentina in the 50's, and now in the anti-democratic relics of the USSR, they would be quite content with a right wing dictatorship.

It's hard to know what is fact vs fiction in Trump world but after the election, the Trump camp claimed to have received millions of dollars- allegedly from small-amount donors.

We have 6.5 million U.S. households that are behind on rental payments. But somehow we have millions of dollars in dark money being spent on rolling back voting rights, supporting batshit crazy politicians and underwriting a failed businessman and former President who damaged our democracy and say by while have a million Americans died.

It's hard to fathom.

Donald Trump Is Keeping the Money [Slate]

The rub was always in the fine print. Even after Donald Trump, the actual president of the United States, lost the 2020 election, he cranked up the outrage machine claiming election fraud, hinting at grand conspiracies, and sending Rudy Giuliani barnstorming to provide visuals, footage, new cautious news stories, that could be used to help spin the many, many yarns he was spinning on the fly. Meanwhile, Trump and his associated PACs raked in hundreds of millions on the chaos, confusion, and destruction. Their fundraising emails shouted things like “We MUST defend the Election from the Left!” as they soaked up cash from low-dollar donors who believed the president. The small print at the bottom whispered something very different: The first 75 percent of these #StoptheSteal donations to the Trump fundraising apparatus were redirected to Trump’s Save America leadership PAC, which was for Trump to spend more or less as he wished.

 

[rareboy]

It has always been about the grift.

 

[TX-Beau]

It has always been about the grift.

.....yup.....

 

[TX-Beau]

It seems "someone" has looted the official gifts storage at the state department gift vault.

Dozens of items went missing from the State Department's gift vault during the transition from the Trump to Biden administrations...

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dozens-items-given-trumps-state-204357891.html


It's just impossible to say who might be guilty, isn't it Secretary of State Pompeo.

 

[rareboy]

^ Well we saw the pics of them loading up anything and everything they could from the White House.

 

[TX-Beau]

Yeah, that was really disgusting.