Ex-Republican, Tom Nichols:
Dems learning again that the GOP, for all
their astonishing clownery, also have ice-
cold, focused lawyers who are going to
use every loophole they can find to screw
with this election. Chanting and marching
and cosplaying will not stop any of that:
Lawyers and legislators do.
Mega Donors, Mostly Republican:
The debt ceiling comes up again on
January 2, 2025. If we don't deal with it,
the US will default. This will cause a
massive financial meltdown. Musk is
calling for default. So is Sergey Glazyev,
the architect of the new BRICS currency.
They are aligned.
MSM likes to say ‘Trump has gotten worse’
but closer to the truth is the fact that he has ALWAYS been this crazy & f*cked up as
human being but they pretended like he
wasn’t for decades because there was
money in it. Sure he’s aged but he was
always an asshole predator. Vote Blue
Ex-Republican Ron Filipkowski:
I agree with 2016 Ben Shapiro, JD Vance,
Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham,
Marco Rubio and so many others on their opinions about Trump before they realized
they had no future in Republican politics or
right-wing media unless they sold out.
The 2024 Ben Shapiro language module
switches seamlessly into Addy fast forward.
Ben Shapiro From 2016:
We just nominated the stupidest, most unstable
man in America for president of the United States.
WHAT THE HELL DID YOU PEOPLE DO?
White Nationalist Nick Fuentes
having a rare💡lightbulb realization…
compares ‘Trash for Trump’ to
Frankenstein Scientology:
Belated apologies to the Germans, Italians, Spaniards, Argentines, Romanians, etc.
etc. etc.: The USA seriously considering becoming the first country in history to go
fascist in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Both Russia and China have tested satellites
with capabilities that include grappling hooks
to pull other satellites out of orbit and “kinetic
kill vehicles” that can target satellites and long-range ballistic missiles in space.”
News guard: Kremlin-owned media
outlets, joined by far-right U.S.-
based commentators, baselessly
claimed that Ukraine sold donated
Western weapons to Hamas. The
social media campaign appeared
to be an attempt to undermine
international support for Ukraine. https://x.com/peterwsinger/status/
Trump Lalia version…
Ev(il) Elon vs Dogfish Head Shark?
He sinks with the Elon metaphor and
stays away from strong 9.0 euphemisms:
Occupy Mars?
https://x.com/lukeymcgarry/status/
Layla Noise vs The Signal
Jim Jeffries, US “2nd-A” NRA Freedumbs:
Ex-Republican on Putin paid YT Republican influencers who are still in good standing
in his old Party.
Ex-Republican David Frum:
I don't want to shock anybody, but ...
the Russian-paid right-wing influencers
didn't give the money back, didn't give
the money away, continue to share disinformation, and remain sought-after platforms for conservative and Republican messaging.
Me: Russia’s paid right wing YT influencers
Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin
and Tennessee “Tenet News” executives.
How many Trump “traditional” “Christian”
“conservative” influencers are quietly
screaming for their RT millionaire shares?
Joanne Marian Segovia is the face of
fentanyl trafficking. She was the
executive director of the San Jose
police union when she was arrested for trafficking fentanyl from China and
distributing it in the US for
years. It's weird how this story has
eluded national discourse.
Late Night Relief:
US General Ret, Barry McCaffrey:
This is the sign of political madness.
The blind obedience of MAGA’s devoted
to an ignorant and lawless leader. Putin
a criminal thug. A dictator. An enemy
to the free world. Incredibly corrupt.
He is brutalizing a democracy in Europe.
What are we becoming?
Rick Wilson
Sep 25
The sound of Americans cheering Vladimir
Putin at a Trump rally should disgust every
right-thinking person, but it’s a sign of
how corrupt the Republican Party has
become that they boo Zelensky and
cheer Putin at Trump’s behest.
Hakan Kapucu:
https://x.com/1hakankapucu/status/
Matthew Schffield on JD:
2018, Ivanka’s China Trademarks:
https://x.com/TrumpIsTheEnemy/status/
Politico:
https://x.com/politico/status/
Imagine the “Discreet” Versions?
Harry Potter Prequel: Roaring
1920’s NYC “Fantastic Beasts”
US Release Date? Nov., 2016.
Horrific new video obtained by CNN
shows a MAGA rioter (in white hat and
backpack) grab a DC Metro officer and
pull him down Capitol steps where he
is stomped and beaten with an American
flag pole. At one point they sing the Star Spangled Banner. (In the link)
Looks like the Lord provided another
private jet.
Me: Fantastic Beast Exorcism? Or Oral
Roberts Pastor, Ken Copeland who makes
me so *affearred* for the fate of humanity.-(
IMF, Impossible Mission Force female
interviewer Lisa Guerrero to the rescue;-)
Pastor Copeland didn’t buy Epstein’s
old “Lol-ita Express” private jet used
recently by ChosenOne45. Like in the
old daz to Epstein island but now without
then BBF, Jeff.
US
https://x.com/FordJohnathan5/status/
France
https://x.com/joncoopertweets/status/
Venzuela
China
https://x.com/mrbcyber/status/
Georgia
https://x.com/DanielMillerEsq/status/
Hungary
https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/
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Congressman Raskin regarding
JD Vance’s Predecessor:
JD might have similar plans for 45.
Kathleen A:
Republicans want Trump elected, by
any means. Trump will resign. Vance
will pardon him. Vance is POTUS and
implements project 2025 from there.
Trump is free and ready to grift as the ex POTUS…..
This is the plan.
Vance and project 2025.
Let that sink in.
Trump’s Military Academy Medals
belonged to a classmate:
https://x.com/WendySiegelman/status/
Which explains these center left multi-page
related/ unrelated half serious rants on
Russian, Republican, Religious Nationalist
*Cthulhu Caucus* Psy-war alignments.
Inside 2021’s AI “Free Guy” and his
Molotov Girl. “Anyone seen my CAT AI?”
Ex-Mormon Matthew Scheffeld:
Talking to Trumpsuper fans about
politics is often a surreal experience.
And that's because they literally do
not understand what you are talking about.
…
Why is that? Because Trump devotees
actually believe that truth derives from
authority rather than reality.
Josh Marshall:
…Well, elite political reporters tend to
see Republican policy and campaign
work in the same way. The fact that
they roll out fake policies and simply
have organized lying as a foundational
part of how they run campaigns ...
well, no kidding ...
“Organized lying as a foundational part of
how they run campaigns…”. Marshall
goes beyond partisan commentary to
hit the nail of truth perfectly.
Sheffield Again:
There is no such thing as the "culture
war." What we're actually talking
about is white evangelicals trying to
cheat at politics rather than accept
that Americans long ago rejected
their authoritarian and superstitious viewpoints.
Me: Dozens of LDS Mormon missionaries
all dressed the same were checking into
the NYC Masonic Lodge back door on
24th Street in mid-April post NYC earthquake.
Mormon Dream Mines?
Their families cosplaying just up the
street on 5th Ave? Flooding NYC
Madison Square and Bryant summer
parks with BOM frontier ankle length
white dress “humble fellowship.”
Below is an Ex-Mormon spreading
charity and nose ring clarity. She moved
from Utah to Brooklyn, NY? From Mormon
to atheist? I don’t completely buy it but
the optics are impeccably *poifect* in
old Brooklynese. All together now,
Mormon dark sarcasm laugh, Ha! Ha! Ha!
Stalking ex-adherents?
Who does that? Besides Scientologists?
Mormonism based on…Free Masonry.
Mormons on Trump:
https://x.com/chrislongview/status/
Well now, what’s the real reason
for declining US church attendance?
Well now, hav’ta put on muh Orwellian
Deep Think fur hat fur that…
Anyone following “Beks” on X will see the
answer on a daily basis. While Religious
Nationalist circular firing squads point
crooked fingers in every direction. Except one.
https://x.com/JessAnderson4VA/
On YT a decade ago, Russian trolls,
David Icke and Alex Jones blamed
CIA, NSA satellite DEW directed energy
weapons zapping Christian minds from
low earth orbit for declining attendance.
Not to mention CIA chemtrail planes
mind controlling US Christians.
Who could possibly believe that?
Then or now? Just repeat until “familiar.”
Republican euphemisms for reality
based glyphosate insecticide sprayed
on US crops? And leaching into water supplies?
The lie of low earth orbiting satellites
was used to deflect attention from
reality based infrasound microwave
DEW weapons. That are not now
exclusive or limited to US, Russian,
China, Israeli defense contractors.
Reality based “targeted individuals?”
That we know of? US, Canadian
Diplomats in the 2016 US Havana embassy.
And CIA, Homeland Security employees.
In 2021 the Russian Republican memetic
lie machine claimed Covid-19 vaccines
caused people to vibrate. Or were used
by the “Deep State” as injected tracking devices.
Who’d believe crap like that? Wrong
Q when the intention is to deliberately
pollute the news infosphere and voting
public opinion.
Repeat until familiar for sports fan gun fanatics who, like Trump, could care less about a virus that “was like the flu.” The
US virus death toll led all advanced economies thanks to RW “flood the zone” with anti-vax bs. Rogan, Campbell,
Weinstein are still at it. Only now that
their guy is running again they talk legit
glyphosate, seed oil health topics. Not
stupid or insane.
Conspiracies *dew* exist apart from
those convenient to this blog. I’m too
too slow when it comes to conspiracy belief.
Extreme “Flood the zone with bs”
RW memetic viruses have been
part of mainstream Republican
“foundational lying” since FDR’s
New Deal. Like in🇷🇺and🇨🇳and 🇮🇷.
NYC surreal contrast: many Jewish
Orthodox and the same number of
pro-Palestine demonstrators on New
York Public Library 5th Ave steps.
Between Patience and Fortitude
Lion Kings. One side loud, the
other completely silent.
Both were also protesting on 5th
Avenue in the Flatiron area. Orthodox
Jewish sect and Palestinians on the same side protesting Gaza with drums banging.
Many orthodox Christians blame
declining church attendance on
the government “Deep State”
“Beast,” interfering with “God’s Plan.”
US Big Gov outlawed slavery, regulated
tobacco, coal, pollution and eventually
caught up to the Big Pharma opioid
industry. That put thousands of pill
salesmen, pharmacy’s, clinics and
Pharma executives into the middle
class, rich and super rich.
It took years to catch up to Brooklyn
Mafioso, John Gotti. Justice only now
catching up to 2017 Charlottesville nazis,
and now Trump. To avoid jail Trump
must win in 2024 by whatever means.
Same with Big Pharma: Delay, appeal,
delay, appeal. Jailed Pharma executives?
No. Perdue Pharma buying up foreign
opioid distributors to recoup US fines.
FTC Sues PIM, Pharmacy Insurance Mgrs:
https://apple.news/AVhCLFQfsTwOAIK
60 Minutes Republicans/ Big Pharma
https://x.com/60Minutes/status/
60 Minutes on Food and Pharma Monopolies:
https://x.com/Cathy2NotToday/status/
2006, how many defeated R’s were
given Pharma executive jobs by Bush’s
Secretary of Defense and ex-Searl
Pharma CEO, Donald Rumsfeld?
When Democrats forced them out after
sweeping both Houses of Congress.
Paving the way for Obama’s 2008 win.
Many pharmacy’s were robbed during
three years of Covid. That and court
imposed big opioid fines contributed
to pharmacy closings across the US.
Matthew Sheffield on the
“FreePress” awakening:
Bari Weiss's website is just now realizing
that Republican’s are unhinged. Exquisite unintentional self-parody.
https://x.com/mattsheffield/status/
The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum
to the rescue: Autocrats in China, Russia,
and elsewhere are now making common
cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit
liberalism and freedom around the world.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/Stephen King: The French right wing is
going down to defeat in spite of polls.
May it happen to Trump and his head-in-
the-sand cronies.
I’ve joined groups that could be labeled
“cults.” Never came close to cosplay
robo stalking or talking in anyone’s in-
group “true believer” prescribed argot lingo.
Matthew Sheffield Again:
Donald Trump is a cult leader,
but he is not a cult member.
…. 👇🏻
JD Vance, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, etc
are pathologically angry & weird cultists.
They hate America and anyone who
doesn't share their freakish superstitions.
…. 👇🏻
Their anger keeps them from being funny.
We're lucky!
From Russian Trump Republican Religious
Nationalist cultish cat’s *paw-litics* to
“Midsommar” autocratic fear and control.
(“Cat’s whut? More y’all’s Marxist
postmodern commie middle school “humor?”)
Ari Aster also did “Hereditary,” partly about
paranormal mergings with the everyday.
Am I a movie fan? Horror or Harry Potter fan?
Nada. When compared to actual movie, HP
and JK Rowling fans. She’s OK pawlitically
under JKR or her pen name Robert Galbraith.
Hare Krishna? Elizabeth Claire Prophet?
QANON, TPUSA, Project 2025, Agenda47?
Forget them and pro-Trump Mike “Misha”
Flynn. Who led a Christian crowd in EC
Prophet “prayer.” No call to Q”Spiritual”
Civil Warfare. That came later.
Here’s YT’s psych alternative to Jordan
Peterson, Sam Vaknin and Richard Grannon.
And no, Dr. “Grande” isn’t the Ascended One:
Native North Americans Came From Israel?
Thetans From Mormon Kolob “K-Pak”
Star System? Or Xenu?
Many need authoritarian “truth.”
Mormon Founder Joseph Smith
Stole His From The Masons,
https://youtube.com/shorts/25_IrTa00rQ?si=9y7IpGfc1JLox1OU
MAGA Trump superfans need
authoritarian reassurance. As do…
“Christian” 🇷🇺, Communist 🇨🇳,
Islamist 🇮🇷 and Taliban in 🇦🇫 .
Accelerando Deut’ers, Barry Weiss?
Elon? Thiel? Ackman? Sacks? JD?
But not….
Garry Trudeau’s Doonsbury…
David Troy: It’s best to see the reported
alliance between Musk and Trump as a
merger of networks, where Musk’s is
arguably the more powerful of the two.
In that context, Trump is an avatar, and
will take instructions. (Per NYT Dealbook) https://x.com/davetroy/status/
What happens if Kamala beats Trump?
In both the official and SCOTUS vote count?
45 hops on “Lolita Express” to Venezuela?
To say hello to Maduro?
2024 riveting headline News:
“Do you actually need a night cream?”
Here’s what experts say.
Duncan Jones, movie director
and son of David Bowie on ex-
eXpert Elon: Very exciting to see Elon
Musk set a big reveal date for Tesla
robotaxi and all the dramatic changes
that that could spell! An auspicious date!
August 8th! Very portentous and
filled with good fortune, according
to Chinese numerology! 👇🏻
…
Of course, according to Western
numerology, August 8th is better
known as 88, or in white supremacy-
land, code for “Heil Hitler,” but I’m
sure Elon never, NEVER meant to
tap into that dank troll.
Jumping From Elon To Taiwan:
Christopher Mathias: Interesting part of
@splcenter’s 2023 “Year In Hate &
Extremism” report: a big focus on the
“New Apostolic Reformation,” a burgeoning
brand of Christian supremacy the SPLC
calls “the greatest threat to American
democracy you’ve never heard of.”
My look: https://x.com/letsgomathias/status/
May 2024, NYC…
Jameel Jaffer: If a pro-Palestinian
student had done this, it would have
been labeled a terrorist attack, the
president would have denounced it,
Brett Stephens would have written
eight columns about it, and Congress
would already have resurrected the
👇🏻Alien and Sedition Acts.👇🏻
(((DeanObeidallah)))
UNREAL Right wing pro-Israeli terrorism
comes to NYC: "NYPD have arrested
Reuven Kahane, 57, cousin of the
infamous extremist rabbi Meir Kahane...
after he allegedly rammed anti-Israel
protesters in Manhattan." Has terrorist
Kahane movement formed in US?!
https://timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/
reuven-kahane-cousin-of-extremist-
rabbi-said-arrested-in-nyc-for-ramming-
anti-israel-protesters/
https://x.com/DeanObeidallah/status/
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“Without Obamacare, everyone
who's had Covid would now have a
disqualifying pre-existing condition.
In case you forgot how lucky we are.”
Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD 1/n:
Three facts:
1. Covid vaccines saved 3 million American
lives during the pandemic.
2. At least 200,000 Americans needlessly
died in 2021-22 because they refused
COVID vaccines.
3. Those who perished were victims
of a predatory health disinformation
campaign.
Jenny Cohn:
On 4/4/20, WaPo released a blistering
expose of Trump’s 70-day deadly
delay in taking urgently needed steps
to contain the virus. Less than two
weeks later, Trump hired Michael
Caputo—founder of the ‘Pardon
Roger Stone’ organization—to
serve as his spokesperson at HHS …”
https://x.com/jennycohn1/status/
https://x.com/jennycohn1/status/
Below are the top 20 states in order
of Covid deaths per million people.
Very nearly all of them are Republican-run.
The top ten are AZ, WV, MS, TN,
NM, MI, AR, FL, AL, and KY.
With OK at the top, here are the states
with the highest rates of *long COVID*
in adults:
Oklahoma: 34.1%
Montana: 33.8%
Alabama: 31.7%
Arkansas: 30.8%
ND: 30.6%
Ohio: 30%
Wyoming: 29.7%
SD: 29.5%
WV: 29.4%
Indiana: 28.7%”
2/2/24
Mark Pitcavage:
Study reveals that the seven states
with the highest rate of incidents of
long COVID are all red states. The
lowest are all blue states.
https://arstechnica.com/science/
2024/02/first-state-level-look-at-
(“W’hale, both Party’s lie, Big Pharma
lies, so who ya gonna believe?” Families
are too busy to even bother keeping up?)
Trump R’s must distract from facts:
“Flood the zone with BS” is the RW
Steve Bannon “conservative” nihilistic
Religious Nationalist MAGA reaction.
National Review? TPUSA? Tim Pool?
Better than therapy speak wokey woke?
George Will is only one of many endorsing
Kamala Harris. *Will* I now read Will? No.
Internationally, R’s have much in common
with totalitarian China. Trump was in
favor of banning TikTok domestically.
Then received billions to change his robotic programming. Chinese corporations have
to be aligned with the 🇨🇳 intelligence state.
They block all unfavorable domestic and
outside news.
My guess, before any incursion/ invasion…
China will cut Pacific underwater internet
cables? Nullify SATCOM? Blockade?
Olga Lautman:
Russia has been conducting these GPS
jamming attacks since last December.
We are now in late April and not a thing
has been done. I’m not sure what NATO is waiting for.
Markus Jonsson:
The foreign ministers of all three Baltic
states are now linking the Russian GPS
jamming with risks of an air disaster.
During weekend, the jamming forced
two Finnish flights to turn around and
the Tartu - Helsinki line is now under
threat of closing.
Unrelated but related:
@DrEricDing: Fact—“The largest cause
of deaths among police officers in 2021”
was…. #COVID19….301 COVID-related
fatalities, more than all other causes
of deaths for police officers combined!
@PLSgetserious: In 1932 Hitler ran
for Reich President against Hindenburg.
He lost by 6 million votes. Hitler challenged
the validity of the election. He went to court
to have the results annulled. He lost in court
but continued to claim he won.
…
Sound familiar?
The March 31, 2024 “60 Minutes”
report on 2016 microwave attacks
on US and Canadian diplomats was
b’cast the Sunday night before April 1st,
FUBAR Alex Jones, April Fool’s Day.
No editorial conspiracy, just another
weird innocent “coincidence.”
Ex-CIA Officer who wasn’t in
Havana when he was “hit,”
Marc Polymeropoulos: This seems
new and notable: "new information
about the Pentagon's global investigation
into these mysterious incidents.
For the first time, sources tell
60 MINUTES they have evidence
that a U.S. adversary may be involved.
(Multiple governments have the capacity)
Sen. Chris Murphy
on 2024 candidate Trump:
“It's why Trump's former National
Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, said
something today that is as shocking
as it is unsurprising. He said Trump
is "aiding and abetting" Putin's
interference campaign…
Then there was gay John Birch Society,
Joe McCarthy lawyer and Democrat,
Roy Cohn. Later becoming Trump’s mob
lawyer/ enforcer. Trump was a Democrat
and a Roy Cohn “apprentice.” Armed Service and Southern US school integration and
their reactionary opposites, Southern KKK “Dixiecrats” and segregationist Republicans.
Then there was Rep Samuel Dickstein,
NYS 1950’s RW “anti-commie” Democrat…
David Troy:
It is a surprising, fun fact that
Rep. Samuel Dickstein, who shifted
House un-American activities
inquiries from Nazis to include
communists, paving the way for
McCarthyism, was himself a paid
agent of the USSR's NKVD.
Sen. Mitt Romney spends $5000 a day
on security. That he barely notices.
Because of gun country NRA militia
“conservative” “Civil War” Trump
voter threats.
Mormon Romney now wants Biden to
pardon Trump for one of his crimes.
With straight face (and Mormon Bishop smirk).
Romney making peace with his backward powerful political tribe? US militia threats against his granddaughter?
(“Looks like you got that TDS, Trump
Derangement Syndrome acronym
acrimony going on.”)
Who is Scott Ritter pictured below?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
FBI Hauling Boxes From Ritter HQ:
https://x.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/
Ben Jacobs: Less than a day after RFK Jr
hangs out with Scott Ritter, the state
police and FBI raid Scott Ritter's home.
Ritter is a former UN weapons inspector
who has become a vocal critic of US foreign policy and is strongly pro-Russia. Ritter is
also a convicted sex offender.
https://x.com/Bencjacobs/status/
Ex-US weapons inspector, isn’t now working
for Russian state sponsored Sputnik News?
Back To Marge Taylor Greene:
Imagine Republicans like MTG in the US
Congress who can barely keep from
reaching for concealed whatever: pistols,
pills, oxycodone, meth, roids. When
Trump is defeated in November 2024.
“Flooding the zone” with “bold” audacious
“paranoid style” MTG bs is the only way to
get attention in crowded “mainstream”
“conservative” J6 Republican politics.
https://x.com/mspeggy50/status/
Imagine Republican Florida state legislators controlled by Gov. DeSantis, Sen. Rick Scott,
Sen. Rubio and Rep. Matt Gaetz?
Ex-Republican, Ron Filipkowsky:
Florida raised the age to purchase an
AR-15 from 18 to 21 after the Parkland
massacre. Now it’s going back to 18.
Because what we really need is to make
it easier for 18 year olds to get ARs.
Ron Filipkowski: FL has the highest
inflation in the country over the last
12 months and in the worst 5 states
it’s roughly double every other state.
All 5 have Republican Governors (FL,
TN, VA, SC, AL). But it’s never their fault.
Sept. 2024, DOJ Antitrust Vs RealPage In Texas:
https://apple.news/A4IO4AOPbS6qaj4VJo6vTQw
Judd Legum (1 - 12)
1. One of the main drivers of inflation in
the US is skyrocketing rents, which are
up 30%+ over the last four years.
So, it's surprising that the recent FBI
RAID on a corporate landlord based
in Atlanta has received little attention.
The raid was part of a federal probe
of an alleged CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY
AMONG LARGE LANDLORDS TO
JACK UP RENTAL PRICES
Follow along to learn how the scheme works
Legum #2. The investigation centers
around RealPage, advanced property management software used by many
corporate landlords.
Landlords that are supposed to be in
competition w/each other "outsource daily pricing and ongoing revenue oversight" to RealPage https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/
Me: Trump/ Kushner Are Edgelord Landlords…
FBI investigations of “RealPage” landlord collaborations are ongoing in the cities of
Phoenix, Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte,
Houston and Miami.
Florida leads all US states in overall inflation.
Via rent collaboration and rising condo
insurance rates. Due to…guess what?
https://x.com/SenWhitehouse/status/
PBS: Consulting firm McKinsey and Co.
has agreed to pay $78 million to settle
claims from insurers and health care
funds that its work with drug companies
helped fuel an opioid addiction crisis.
From 1999 to 2021, nearly 280,000
people in the U.S. died from overdoses
of prescription opioids, according to
the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Insurers argued that McKinsey worked
with Purdue Pharma even after the
extent of the opioid crisis was apparent.
The settlement is the latest in a years-
long effort to hold McKinsey accountable
for its role in the opioid epidemic. In
February 2021, the company agreed
to pay nearly $600 million to U.S.
states, the District of Columbia and
five U.S. territories. In September,
the company announced a separate,
$230 million settlement agreement
with school districts and local governments.
WATCH: How McKinsey has influenced companies and governments behind the scenes for decades
The main reason for CVS, Walgreens
drug store closings across the US?
Millions in opioid fines nationally…
but especially, guess where? Florida,
where the opioid oversupply, pandemic
deaths and untold corruption flourished.
Judd Legum: (1/ 7)
1@Publix is the largest political donor in
Florida
Between 2016 and 2022, Publix has doled
out $10.6 million to Florida politicians
Last year, Publix donated $3.2 million
It's paying off
Big time.
2. From 2011 to 2019, the number of
opioid prescriptions dispensed by
pharmacies in Florida declined by 56%
went in a different direction
The number of oxycodone sold at
Publix went from 26 million pills in
2011 to 43.5 million pills in 2019
3. By 2019,
became the second-largest distributor
of oxycodone in Florida, surpassing CVS
trailing only Walgreens
Publix allegedly "filled prescriptions from
'cash-only' pain clinics or written by
physicians hundreds of miles away
w/no license to practice in Florida"
4. In November 2018, then-Florida
Attorney General Pam Bondi (R),
sued CVS and Walgreens.
The complaint noted that CVS and
Walgreens were "dispensing extremely
large amounts of opioids from their retail pharmacy stores in Florida."
was not included
5. Ashley Moody (R) became Florida's
Attorney General in 2019. In 2022,
Walgreens and CVS settled with the
Attorney General's office, paying the
state $440 million and $630 million,
respectively.
6. Florida never sued Walmart. But it
still negotiated a $215 million
settlement with Walmart
sold about twice as much oxycodone as Walmart in Florida
But Moody never sued them and there
has been no settlement
Moody will not explain why
7. @Publix
has donated $125,000 directly to Moody
donated $8,000
donated nothing
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Qatar funneled billions of dollars to Hamas
with Netanyahu & Trump’s knowledge &
support. Netanyahu approved more
Hamas funding a month before the
October 7th attack, all while weakening
Israeli defenses against terrorism.
On the other side of the world,
Noah Smith: China builds two new coal
plants per week. That's six times as much
as the entire rest of the world COMBINED.”
(Like wet markets, coal is part of
China’s “traditional culture.”)
Dave Roberts
On Why Coal Is The Worst:
Good News From Derek Thomson:
Good decarb news from world's
advanced economies: - Carbon
emissions have fallen to 1973
levels - For first time ever,
electricity generation from
renewables + nuclear reached
50% - Total coal demand is now
down at *1903 levels*
Steven Rattler:
In 2022, the murder rate in NYC was 5.2
per 100K residents. Alabama? 10.9 per
100K residents. More than twice as bad. https://x.com/SenTuberville//SenTuberville/
Population of New York City?
* 8 million plus.
* Population of the entire State of Alabama?
* 5 million plus.
Steven Rattner:
Trump claims that crime has surged
under Joe Biden’s presidency. That’s false.
In 2023, the nationwide violent and
property crime rates were lower
than any year of Trump’s presidency.
Kurt Anderson: The states with
smaller populations than New York City.
https://x.com/KBAndersen/status/
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Sam Harris Making Sense of Israel:
“Hasbara means that you don't have
to ask yourself hard questions, just
try to explain better what you already
believe in.”
Ex-Republican Strategist,
Stewart Stevens 02/04/24: Like many
traitors, Tucker Carlson feels rejected
and unappreciated by the class he
aspired to join. He was rejected by CIA.
He wanted to be a serious writer and
intellectual. Was fired by MSNBC, CNN,
Tina Brown. Washed up at Fox. Then
fired by FOX. FOX.
Of course he’s in Moscow.
Tucker Carlson: “The city of Moscow…
It’s so much nicer than any city in my
country…It’s so much cleaner, and
safer, and prettier -esthetically-…
Than any city in the United States”
Bill Browder responds:
Tucker, Moscow hasn’t been safe for
my friends Sergei Magnitsky, Boris
Nemtsov or Vladimir Kara-Murza
whose lives have been destroyed for
criticising Putin. If you were Russian
& said the same things about Putin
that you say about Biden, you’d
already be six feet under.
02/24 John Scott-Railton
The Tucker Carlson grocery price
video (Russia is so cheap you'll be
radicalized, folks!) is tragic & funny.
My guy, the grocery bill you're
rhapsodizing about is ~SEVENTY
PERCENT of a median Russian
weekly salary (13.4k RUB)
Data: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_
Russian_federal_subjects_by_average_wage
The Vampire Weekend singer is a NY’er who
looks like a Mustang Harry’s ex-bartender?
Who thought he was Gloria *Swan-song?*
After a 90 Minute beer I took in a movie.
And noticed an uncanny resemblance to the
actor playing “Renfield,” Dracula’s butler,
eating the bugs, opposite the ultimate narcissist,
Vlad “The Impaler” Dracula played by Nick Cage:
Congresswoman Elise Stefanik hiding
from claimed “FBI Undercover Crisis
Actors” on Jan 6 (2021)
https://x.com/SarahLarchmont/status/
Harvard’s Rep. Elise Stefanik wants to be
45’s VP. Almost as badly as Vivek Ramaswamy,
JD Vance and Gov. Khristy Noem put together.
JD adVanced and answered the Mar a lago call.
William Gibson: Tennessee law allowing
teachers to carry concealed has me
imagining which pistols exactly my
own SW VA, TN-adjacent high school
teachers would’ve chosen to pack.
Musk, Thiel and J6 MAGA Accelerando:
