Blip

[bodysong]

What is one-man, state wrecking machine, Scott Walker, seeking to accomplish,
at the Smithsonian International Center for International Scholars ?

(pick up a pay check for keeping his horrible Trumpie mouth shut, while the adults speak ?)

Trump Picks Walker for Smithsonian

Ex-governor and college dropout will join board
of International Center for Scholars.

July 17, 2019

pResident Occupant of the Oval Office chair, tRump, has appointed
former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker to the Board of Trustees
of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the
Smithsonian Institution

The center, as its website explains, is “a gathering place for
some of the best and brightest scholars and experts from
around the world. Their work is the centerpiece of our
activity and informs the nation’s public policy debates
with nonpartisan and relevant research and information.”

Walker never completed his bachelors degree at Marquette
University and as governor often seemed opposed to
scholarship. He favored drastic cuts in UW System funding
and tried to delete “the search for truth” from the guiding
principles of the state’s university system.

By contrast, the search for truth is a central concern of scholars
at the Wilson Center.

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2019/07/1...r-smithsonian/

Oct 2, 2010

The WWC is a think tank-like institution created by The
Woodrow Wilson Memorial Act of 1968.

Congress stipulated that the WWC must commemorate Wilson’s
“ideals and concerns” and memorialize “his accomplishments.”
One-third of its funding comes from taxpayers.
Its president since 1999 is former Indiana Congressman
Lee H. Hamilton.

Since then, the DC-based WWC (WilsonCenter.org) has been
condemned by journalists, a Wilson family descendant, a
prominent Congressman, and other Americans for:

* Violating its Congressional mandate by ignoring vital aspects
of President Wilson’s record.

* Accepting large contributions from unsavory corporations.

* Giving an award to the undeserving Ahmet Davutoglu,
Turkey’s Foreign Minister.

The Center, said Bush, was “specifically chartered to preserve
[Wilson’s legacy] through their selection of programs, projects,
scholars, and award recipients.” That legacy included Wilson’s “
Arbitral Award on the Turkish – Armenian Boundary.”

President Wilson would have objected to “money raising schemes
specifically designed to bring home the spoils of economic gain at
the expense of higher ideals.”

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com...lson-center/2/

Top Dem asks Wilson Center to rescind award

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/


A top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee
urged the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars to rescind a planned award for Turkey's foreign minister.
__________________

 

[bodysong]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) —

It's been a busy week for former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

On Monday, he announced he would not run for office in 2022
because he had accepted a full-time position starting in 2021
with the Young America's Foundation.

And on Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he
was appointing Walker to the board of trustees of one of the
world's most highly regarded think tanks.

Walker is set to join the board of the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian
Institute. It's a six-year appointment.

The Wilson Center describes itself as "the nation's
key non-partisan policy forum for tackling global
issues through independent research and open dialogue."

Its board is comprised of government officials and those
in private life, all appointed by the president.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-appoints-scott-walker-to-board-of-think-tank

 

[phrodeau]

The guy has got balls.

https://i2.wp.com/metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wilson.jpg

 

[bodysong]

One of the associated institutes of the Smithsonian made the
mistake of identifying itself, as being on the side of the victims
of Trump's concentration camps for kids.

The drawings and paintings made by children in the prisons, were to be
collected as artifacts, that the Smithsonian would preserve.

This made Trumpypants look bad.

(Trump relishes dishing out punishments.)

Scott Walker followed the ALEC program, and the coaching of the
Koch brothers to the letter. Walker has no problem with following
orders, that will result in misery, pain, and poverty.

Trumpypants is sending him on a mission.

One of the main reasons that tRump the Occupant sends his operatives
to departments under his control, is to dismantle the structures that
makes the department effective.

What will happen to the government-funded part of the institute ?

Nothing good, if tRump is involved.

(The tax-payer cash that should flow to the departments, seems to
end up in tRump's war chest, after the staff has been made
redundant, and resources have been strangled down to a trickle.)

"As governor, Walker sought to drastically cut funding for
the University of Wisconsin system. He was even caught
trying to remove “the search for truth” from the guiding
principles of the state’s university system."

"Despite his history, Walker was appointed to a position
overseeing scholarship."

"On Tuesday Trump appointed Walker to the Board of Trustees
of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the
Smithsonian Institution."

Maggie Haberman Verified Account
@maggieNYT

Scott Walker, of Wisconsin, gets a presidential appointment

(screen grab of public notice)

4:19 PM - 16 Jul 2019

"Upon appointment designate Chair"

on the board of trustees

http://winewaterwatch.org/2019/07/t...ars-at-the-smithsonian-institution-raw-story/

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/tr...rsee-scholars-at-the-smithsonian-institution/

7/09/2019

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/7397...ting-drawings-made-by-detained-migrant-childr

 

[bodysong]

July 18, 2019

U.S. House Chaplain Pat Conroy

CNN notes that Conroy’s prayer sounded like an exorcism:

At times, Conroy’s prayer sounded strikingly similar
to the Catholic Church’s old Rite of Exorcism, in
which a priest cast “unclean spirits” from a
possessed person…

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progr...ms-exorcism-to-cast-out-demons-from-congress/

NBC News Verified Account
@NBCNews

JUST IN: "I was not happy with it. I disagree with it,"
Pres. Trump says of “send her back” chant from crowd
at his campaign rally last night. He asserts he tried to
stop the chant by "very quickly" speaking again as
the chant broke out, despite a long pause during
the chant.

(pic)

10:21 AM - 18 Jul 2019

Kenneth P. Vogel Verified Account
@kenvogel

TRUMP tells WH pool he "was not happy with" the
"send her back" chant at his NC rally last night &
tried to stop it; "I started speaking very quickly.”

The video shows that’s not true.

(pic)

10:07 AM - 18 Jul 2019

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...nothing-stop-racist-send-her-back-chant-rally

Appearing on the House Floor Thursday morning,
U.S. House Chaplain Pat Conroy delivered the
opening prayer, at one point declaring:

LET US PRAY.

WE GIVE YOU THANKS, O GOD, FOR GIVING US ANOTHER DAY.
THIS HAS BEEN A DIFFICULT AND CONTENTIOUS WEEK IN
WHICH DARKER SPIRITS SEEMED TO HAVE BEEN AT PLAY
IN THE PEOPLE’S HOUSE. IN YOUR MOST HOLY NAME,

I NOW CAST OUT ALL SPIRITS OF DARKNESS FROM THIS CHAMBER,

SPIRITS NOT FROM YOU.

I CAST OUT THE SPIRIT OF DISCOURAGEMENT,
WHICH DEADENS THE HOPE OF THOSE WHO ARE
OF GOOD WILL.

I CAST OUT THE SPIRIT OF PETTY DIVISIVENESS,
WHICH CLOUDS THE SENSE AND THE DESIRE
TO BE OF FRUITFUL PRODUCTIVITY IN
ADDRESSING THE ISSUES MORE
APPROPRIATELY BEFORE THIS HOUSE.

I CAST OUT ANY SADNESS BROUGHT ON
BY THE FRUSTRATION OF DEALING WITH
MATTERS DETRIMENTAL TO THE
HONORABLE WORK EACH MEMBER
HAS BEEN CALLED TO ENGAGE IN.

POUR OUT, O LORD, YOUR SACRED OIL
AS YOU DID UPON AARON OF OLD.

ANOINT YOUR SERVANTS HERE IN THE
HOUSE WITH A HEALING BALM TO
COMFORT AND RENEW THE SOULS
OF ALL IN THIS ASSEMBLY.

MAY YOUR SPIRIT OF WISDOM AND
PATIENCE DESCEND UPON ALL SO
THAT ANY SPIRIT OF DARKNESS
MAY HAVE NO PLAY IN OUR MIDST.

RATHER, LET YOUR SPIRIT OF COMITY,
OF BROTHER AND SISTERHOOD, AND
LOVE OF OUR NATION AND OF ALL
COLLEAGUES IN THIS CHAMBER.
EMPOWER OUR BETTER ANGELS
TO BE AT PLAY AND THE COMMON
WORK TO BE DONE FOR THE BENEFIT
OF ALL YOUR PEOPLE.

MAY ALL THAT IS DONE WITHIN THE
PEOPLE’S HOUSE BE FOR YOUR
GREATER HONOR AND GLORY.

AMEN.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/reli...arkness-his-chamber-prayer-amid-racism-fight/

 

[Shelly2inme]

Hmmmm

Sounds like you need to talk to Dr. Phil about this.

 

[bodysong]

July 22, 2019

Sarah Huckabee Sanders made an appearance Sunday
at an exclusive Republican Governors Association-
hosted two-day retreat.

Her daddy, Mike Huckabee is an ordained
minister, and he left FOX TV for a religious
TV broadcast system- TBN He has not held
public office since 2007. They are both still
securely connected to the Trump Alliance.

Radical Christianist Mike Huckabee
(father of former Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders)
interviewed by Fox's Heather Childers when the subject of Trump's
racism was broached. Huckabee's perverse defense was that...

"If Donald Trump had been a racist all these years, don't you
think it would have come out somewhere in the life that he's
lived which has been about as public as any elected official
has ever lived. And the fact is, a person doesn't just suddenly
become a racist at the age of 72, having not been one up
until that point."

Well, let's take a look at Trump's very public life to see for ourselves:

* He had a strict "no colored people" policy in his apartment buildings.

* He advocated the death penalty for the Central Park 5, even after they had been found innocent.

* He told business associates that he didn't want any black accountants.

* He refused to renounce KKK Grand Wizard David Duke.

* He said there "fine people on both sides" of the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville.

* He was an avid Birther.

* He imposed a ban on Muslim immigrants.

* He said that a Latino judge could not be neutral.

* He called black athletes "sons of bitches."

* He labeled Haiti and Africa as "shithole countries."

That isn't even a comprehensive list.

Trump did not suddenly become a racist.
He has been one for decades.

And he follows in the footsteps of his father who attended Klan
rallies in New York. This surely was not Huckabee's point, but
it tells the real story of Donald Trump's long-festering racism.

Politico

News Corpse

https://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=42236

Daily Kos

 

[bodysong]

Bill Clark
@billclarkphotos

.@McConnellPress walks past Jon Stewart at the
Ohio Clock Corridor in the Capitol. The Senate
will be voting later today on HR 1327:
Never Forget the Heroes: Permanent Authorization
of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.

(pic of Jon Stewart all- out grinning)

10:15 AM - 23 Jul 2019

Bill Clark
@billclarkphotos Replying to @McConnellPress @senatemajldr

Correcting to add @senatemajldr

10:16 AM - 23 Jul 2019

SOB Mitch McConnell did not shrink from depriving NYC First Responders
and 9/11 survivors of funds to keep the injured and damaged, alive.
McTurtle used heroic and brave human beings as bargaining chips,
to get what he wanted for himself.

Jul 23, 2019

Senate votes to extend 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund

9/11 victims bill heads to Trump‘s desk after clearing Senate

The Senate cleared a measure Tuesday that would extend
a financial lifeline to thousands of victims suffering health
problems from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

By the lopsided vote of 97-2, the Senate agreed to a House-
passed bill that would effectively make permanent a special
compensation fund for first responders and other victims of
the 2001 attacks, while providing however much money is
needed to pay all eligible claims filed by Oct. 1, 2090.

Grinches of the Trumpie Republican Party

“This bill appropriates unlimited funds for a virtually unlimited time period,”
complained Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul.

Mike Lee, Republican senator from Utah, was the dog in the manger.
His amendment was shot down.

"Utah Sen. Mike Lee votes against 9/11 first responders bill
after losing bid to limit spending"

Salt Lake Tribune

Creatures from the Blood Lagoon

Republicans Mike Lee, Rand Paul Were Lone Senators
to not Renew 9/11 Victims Fund for First Responders

https://www.newsweek.com/despite-te...cks-congress-renews-9-11-victims-fund-1450712

 

[bodysong]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has no
time for voters from his state, when they need his help.

David Roberts Verified Account
@drvox

Republicans could help fund medical care for coal miners
with black lung tomorrow.

But (Mitch) McConnell is blocking it, because Republicans
don't give a shit about coal miners except as political props.

(link to reuters)

9:08 PM - 23 Jul 2019

Coal miners to urge Congress to protect their black lung benefits

Around 120 coal miners with black lung disease were due
in Washington on Tuesday hoping to pressure Congress to
restore a higher excise tax level on coal companies to help
fund their medical care

Reuters Top News Reuters Top News @Reuters

Around 120 miners and their families traveled to Washington, D.C.
this week to meet with the Kentucky Republican and pressure him
to take action to finance the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund,
which serves as a lifeline for an estimated 12,000 former coal miners
nationwide.

The miners said McConnell was "rude" during their meeting and
quickly left after delivering a brief statement.

"We rode up here for 10 hours by bus to get some answers from
him because he represents our state," George Massey, a miner
from Harlan County, Kentucky, told the Lexington Herald-Leader.

"For him to come in for just two minutes was a low-down shame."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...ners-black-lung-slam-mcconnell-brushing-them?

 

[bodysong]

What-About-isms serves all purposes
(If you base all your responses on lies.)

July 25, 2019

Mueller shamed Sarah Huckabee Sanders for her lies.

(Her lies were not founded on anything.)

So, she tweeted, and accused Democrats of telling lies.

https://theguardiansofdemocracy.com...s-tells-dems-to-quit-lying-and-do-their-jobs/


Sky Palma
@DeadStateTweets

Twitter points out the irony of Sarah Sanders telling Democrats to ‘quit lying’

(link)

1:21 PM - 25 Jul 2019

Twitter points out the irony of Sarah Sanders telling Democrats
to ‘quit lying’

In the wake of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony
before Congress, former White House Press Secretary Sarah
Huckabee Sanders took to her official Twitter account and
slammed Democrats,


Doominique
@Doompellet

@SarahHuckabee see, on our planet, THAT
is what Mueller said
#lyingtrump #lyinghuckabee

(pic)

1:48 PM - 26 Jul 2019

JudyK
@portside27

She's baaaaaaccccckkkk......
And lying like she never left the podium.

#GOPLies #SarahSanders #CorruptGOP #Mueller

(link)

4:56 AM - 26 Jul 2019

Soledad O'Brien Verified Account
@soledadobrien

This is a lie:

(link)

3:07 AM - 26 Jul 2019

Sarah Huckabee Sanders Verified Account
@SarahHuckabee

Didn’t take long for Mueller to once again vindicate
President @realDonaldTrump. No collusion.
No obstruction. And now Mueller all but admits
it was all along
a total witch hunt

(link)

6:53 AM - 24 Jul 2019



She left her job at the W.H. podium, and stopped abusing the W.H.
journalists and reporters pool. Why is she spouting his propaganda ?

Daniel Dale Verified Account
@ddale8 Replying to @ddale8

"This was treason," Trump falsely claims of the Mueller
investigation. He also says it was "high crimes," using a
phrase from the impeachment section of the Constitution.

6:25 PM - 25 Jul 2019

 

[bodysong]

Someone has been paying attention
.....enough blips to knock someone over, and sideways

Mudline July 28, 2019


Trump on Reps. Omar, AOC, Tlaib, and Pressley:
"If you hate our country, or if you are not happy here, you can leave."

...Trump on the US:
"The United States has become the laughing stock and a whipping post
for the rest of the world....We don't have enough strength in our country
....Our country has no spirit, our country has no gravitas
....We're a debtor nation....We're broke
....We don't know what we're doing as a country
....You think our country's so innocent?
.****sted-out factories, scattered like tombstones across the landscape

from Donald Trump's Full Inauguration Speech

January 20, 2017

"But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists:
mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities;
rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape
of our nation; an education system flush with cash, but which leaves
our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge; and the
crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and
robbed our country of so much unrealized potential."

https://time.com/4640707/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript/

"This American carnage stops right here and stops right now."
(Oh, pResident D. Duncecap, does that mean you promised
to fix everything ? "Only I can fix it!, you said.)

Trump Claims, 'I Alone Can Fix It'

(ah, but Americans are gullible, trusting, hopeful- No one expected
the Spanish Inquisition, and no one expected that Trump would use
the crime boss's definition. Trump "fixed" the whole system to benefit
himself, his family, his supporters, his "fixers", his campaign contributors,
his bribers, his defense team, his lawyers, and most of all, his liars.)

....And the crime, and the gangs, and the drugs
....Poverty and violence at home, war and destruction abroad
....We're a foolish country. We're a dumb country....
How stupid are the people of the country?
...Our military is going to hell
....Our infrastructure is terrible, our roads, our bridges,
our tunnels, our schools, our hospitals
-- we're becoming a Third World country
....We don't have a country any more
....We're dying. This country is dying
....The American Dream is dead."

....John Dean: "Trump has no concern about how history
will treat him because he has never read any history.
But for those of us who do read history we know
he will be viewed as either an aberrant disaster,
or if he is re-elected, the man who destroyed America.
Without question our worst POTUS."

....Trump rally crowd chanting re Rep. Ilhan Omar,
who as a child came to the US from Somalia:
"Send her back! Send her back!".

...Trump on Reps. Omar, AOC, Tlaib, and Pressley:
"Pro-terrorist...Anti-USA....I don't believe [they] are capable
of loving our Country.".
...Sen. Kamala Harris on Trump: "
Has taken the presidency to a new low.
..Needs to go back where he came from
and leave that office."
....Joe Scarborough:
"His Nuremberg Rally...The low point of the Trump presidency."

....Trump:
"The Washington Post story, about my speech in North Carolina
and tweet, with its phony sources who do not exist, is Fake News."

....Anthony Scaramucci on Trump attack on The Squad:
"Racist and unacceptable.".

...Rep. Al Green on Trump:
"Unfit for office...He's willing to yell 'fire' in a crowded theater
...We have a bigot in the White House."
...LA Times on Trump:
"Bigot-in-Chief."....
Rick Wilson on Trump:
"Devoted to political arson
...Beyond shame, reason, and dignity.
...[Took] a massive dump on the American Dream."

....George Conway:
"Naivete, resentment, and outright racism,
rolled in a toxic mix, have given us a racist president
...Racist to the core."

....Rep. Ilhan Omar on Trump:
"The worst president we've had.".
...Trump: "Foul-Mouthed Omar.".

...RNC ad:
"Squad Goals: ANARCHY.".

....Eric Trump on The Squad:
"This is the most hate-filled group I have ever seen before
...They say anti-Semitic things every single day."

....Newt Gingrich:
"This is the Left's strategy. Ignore the facts, disregard the truth,
and smear anyone who doesn't agree with you."

(bodysong comment:
No, Newt, you bag of fish poop slime.
....That is the Trump loyalist playbook.)

...Andrew Sullivan on Trump:

"His reelection strategy is built on the notions that
cruelty can be popular and liberal democratic norms
are dead. He might be right."

....Rep. John Lewis on Trump:
"I know racism when I see it. I know racism when I feel it
...In the '50s and in the '60s segregationists told us to go back
...They told ministers, priests, rabbis, and nuns to go back!
They told the innocent little children seeking just an equal
education to go back. As a nation and as a people we need
to go forward, and not backwards."

....historian Jon Meacham on Trump:
"He has joined Andrew Johnson as the most racist president
in American history.".

...Berkeley City Council member Rigel Robinson on Tucker Carlson:
"A dangerous, xenophobic, racist, white supremacist goblin."

....Sen. Rand Paul on Jon Stewart:
"He pretended for years...to be somebody that could see both sides
and see through the B.S. Now he is the B.S."

...****sh Limbaugh:
"Turn on any television show. The odds are it's going
to have something in it that literally destroys or attempts
to destroy or attacks you, your values, your way of life,
the founding of this country. Movies, ditto."

....Trump:
"People like...Paul Ryan almost killed the Republican Party.
Weak, ineffective, and stupid."

....Stephen King on Trump:
"First, you stoke hatred and fear of minorities.
Then you round them up and put them in camps.
Next, you send out raiding parties to get those
who have been driven into hiding.

The armbands come next, right?"

....Michael Avenatti on Donald Trump Jr.: "
Could someone please explain to Biff that every time
he calls me 'the Creepy Porn Lawyer,' he is mocking
his father, the Creepy Porn President who had
unprotected sex with a porn star while Biff's
four-month-old brother was at home?
You may have to use crayons."........................

https://www.washingtonpost.com/doonesbury/strip/blowback

 

[bodysong]

Republican party lost its lone African-American House member-

Rep. Will Hurd

I have made the decision to not seek reelection for the 23rd
Congressional District of Texas in order to pursue opportunities
outside the halls of Congress to solve problems at the nexus
between technology and national security.

— Rep. Will Hurd (@HurdOnTheHill) August 2, 2019

Will Hurd bailing on his seat is not a good sign for the Republican
Party. It’s becoming a place where fewer and fewer people want to
be, particularly people of color. His exit means Republicans will
have exactly ONE black elected official in the entire congress:
Sen. Tim Scott.

— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) August 2, 2019

Hurd’s departure set to leave one Republican African American
in Congress – and 41 of 53 sitting GOP senators are white men

“Hurd leaving is basically an admission that he doesn’t think the
GOP is going to change,” tweeted the New York Times columnist
Jamelle Bouie. “And as non-whites leave the party, what’s left of
the guardrails keeping the party from explicit full white nationalist
erode even further.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/02/republican-party-trump-will-hurd-diversity

The (Republican) party’s embrace of its most virulently white-supremacist
elements seems intent on alienating even those black, Latino, and Asian
voters who might otherwise agree with its positions. This rankles Hurd,
but hasn’t stopped Rep. Will Hurd from voting with Trump’s agenda at a career rate
of 81 percent, including in efforts to gut the Affordable Care Act,
oppose the establishment of humanitarian standards for the care
of migrants detained at the U.S.-Mexico border, and continuing
to arm Saudi-backed forces in Yemen.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/will-hurd-gop-future.html

Does anyone remember the Republican's promise to create
a "Republican Party that looks like America" ?

Seems like a very long time ago.

That was before America was split in two.

 

[bodysong]

Ferguson, MO

Aug 5, 2019

Steve Stenger, the disgraced and soon-to-be-imprisoned former St. Louis County Executive, wants a judge know he is sorry for doing crimes and that he is now suffering from a "deep and constant feeling of remorse" — a description that stands in remarkable contrast to a recently-published trove of truly, incredibly corrupt shit this guy said while in office.

In May, Stenger pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a bribery scheme, and he's due to be sentenced this Friday. But thanks to a sentencing memo filed by prosecutors, we now know the county executive was perversely proud of his accomplishments as, well, a lazy conman.

"How 'bout that motherf—-ers?" Stenger allegedly said after winning re-election in November 2018, his comments captured on a secret recording. "I don't show up to the Council meetings. I don't do f—-ing s—-. I've been sitting at my house for the past two months f—-ing raising money and then won by 20%!"

According to the prosecutor's documents, Stenger concluded his boast with the extremely accurate summation, "The world's a f—-ed up place."

https://www.riverfronttimes.com/new...mpaign=rightrail&utm_content=MorebyThisAuthor

Stenger's Fancy Friend John Rallo to Plead Guilty to
Federal Crime

Jul 16, 2019

William 'Bill' Miller Pleads Guilty, Admits Corruption as
Stenger's Chief of Staff

May 31, 2019

Sheila Sweeney Pleads Guilty in Stenger Corruption Case;
John Rallo Arraigned

May 10, 2019

Steve Stenger Pleads to 3 Felonies in Corruption Case,
Admits Taking Bribes

May 3, 2019

Sam Page Is the New St. Louis County Executive,
Replacing Steve Stenger

Apr 29, 2019

 

[bodysong]

bodysong personal inquiry-

Connor Betts committted a mass murder.
(I am looking at the picture of him, with his sister.)
She followed her heart, and had a good life as a trans man.
Connor Betts attempted to follow local society's rules, even
as he rebelled them. He became twisted.

Nothing is more macho, than threatening the women that
reject a man, for being a man that makes it very clear,
that he hates women.

Let me take a guess- At heart, he was a trans woman!

What are the chances of two trans teens, in the same family ?

The world knows that trans-people are sometimes forced to hide the fact.
Exposure puts their safety and lives in danger, if their is no support for
them in the community.

There is much more pressure on a human being born as a man,
to keep it repressed.

There is nothing that the religious network hates more than
trans-sexual people, other than women that opt to abort a fetus.

There is nothing they value more, than a white heterosexual man.
A mass murderer has more value, than a member of the LGBT
community, in religion's eyes.

What are the darkside of the interwebs currently promoting ?
Thanks to Russian instigators, Racism, Hate. Guns. Violence.
Some insane version of America that never existed.


Dayton, Ohio, shooter Connor Betts killed his sister.
He killed a group of people that was diverse, and
intergrated.

Aug 08, 2019

The website Splinter is reporting new details about the sibling
of Dayton, Ohio, shooter Connor Betts, who was the first victim
in Sunday morning’s massacre that left nine people dead and 27
wounded. The sibling was initially identified as Connor Betts’
sister, Megan Betts, but a friend told Splinter Betts was a transgender
man who went by the name Jordan Cofer, used male pronouns and
appeared to be out to only a handful of people — and possibly
not even his family. It’s not clear whether the gunman knew about
Cofer’s gender identity, or whether it played a role in the shooting.
In a statement, the National Center for Transgender Equality said,
“Mass gun violence is an epidemic in this country and deserving
of swift and immediate action by lawmakers at all levels of government.
We join the nation in mourning for every community impacted by gun
violence.” In 2019 alone, at least 10 trans people have been murdered
in the U.S.

https://www.democracynow.org/2019/8..._killed_by_dayton_shooter_was_transgender_man

Please signal boost. #JordanCofer deserves to be remembered
as he was. Every story being published about him misgenders
and deadnames him, all because his brother took away his
chance to live openly when he murdered him (and eight others) on Sunday

(link)

Elizabeth Blackburn (@InnateOptimist) August 7, 2019

From the Advocate.

[One of the first victims] of a mass shooter in Dayton, Ohio,
was his sibling, a trans man named Jordan Cofer, according
to the National Center for Transgender Equality and a report
on the website Splinter.

Splinter writer Katelyn Burns concluded that Cofer was likely
not targeted for his gender identity because he was not out to
many, including his family. But Cofer, 22, used male pronouns
and identified as trans, according to friends of his who spoke to
Burns.

“Jordan was my closest friend,” an anonymous friend told Burns
in a Twitter direct message. “He identified with he/him pronouns
to people he trusted and knew would support him. Jordan was probably
one of the sweetest people you would ever meet, a true saint, but he
was also very scared constantly. He tried to give the best to everyone.”


https://www.advocate.com/news/2019/...ed-dayton-shooting-was-trans-man-jordan-cofer

From Medium.com

Jordan was the youngest of the nine people murdered at Ned Peppers
Bar in Dayton, Ohio. Jordan’s brother, Connor Betts, robbed him
of the opportunity to be remembered as he lived. As he wrote on
his Tumblr bio, he was a trans man with “a loving heart and way
too much work to do.”

Today Jordan is incorrectly memorialized in countless news stories
featuring high school prom photos taken from his mother’s Facebook
page. Jordan, who was studying earth and environmental sciences
and sang in the school chorus, had come out as transgender to just
a handful of people. The only people he told were those that he
could trust to support him.


medium.com/

Daily Kos, too.

 

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"some say" Trumpism wanes at Sturgis bike rally

August 12, 2019

Did you see the tacky 'Build the Wall" trailer that
was driving around Sturgis?

He tried to get some friends who were selling Indian tacos
2 sell some of his Trump junk at their stand.

Was very offended when they just started laughing at him.

— Josey (@JoseyRider) August 12, 2019

The reality could simply be that other than obvious groups
like “Bikers for Trump” there isn’t really a actual, deep
ideological support for Trump among bikers, if a half
million people are a reasonable example. The reality
is that in a subculture that privileges individualism
and grouped non-conformity, MAGA hats are déclassé.

Although there were fewer fatalities than last year in Sturgis,
drug arrests mainly meth-related were nearly double.
Apparently there were more vendors than last year,
which is actually a bad sign if attendance was flat
over the ten days.


DUI, drug arrests way up at Sturgis motorcycle rally
while attendance likely flat, officials say

(link)

— Rapid City Journal (@RCJournal) August 10, 2019

Sturgis, SD for Bike Week and all the vendors sell them.
This year, Putin riding bitch on Trump's Harley was the new design.
That one was really soul-crushing as it's the opposite of reality.
They are real and in the wild in specific demographics.
Usually next to Jane Fonda stuff

— Aaron Sylvester (@rockymtnsly) August 12, 2019

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/12/1878411/--some-say-Trumpism-wanes-at-Sturgis-bike-rally

(annieli seems to be hinting that the Trump theme is a bit worn,
tired at the edges.)

The joke was over, a long time, ago.

Trump made an effort during the beginning, when he believed he had no chance.
His swearing and cursing, onstage, his ripping apart insider political figures, as
an outsider may have had appeal.

Trump believed he would return to his comfortable, cozy routine in NYC.
Now, Trump is working hard for Putin, ripping apart the network the
sustains many bikers that are veterans, and their racially intergrated
families.

(I have a feeling that the determined bikers that ride to Sturgis, are not
all that much fond of posers.)

Trump is the ultimate poser.

Nothing about him is authentic.

December 14, 2018

- Steve Hendrix

The group finally decided to end the Washington one after
what Bean describes as “unreal” arguments with Pentagon
police at the most recent Rolling Thunder. He and Muller
describe conflicts over traffic and parking and access that
have grown year by year. A partnership that started with
the first Rolling Thunder in 1987 — when some 3,000 riders
rolled in after seeing an ad in Outlaw Biker magazine —
has grown more complicated as the gathering grew massive
and security demands swelled in the wake of 9/11. Bean said
the Pentagon allows less and charges more, up to $50,000
for a morning’s use of its parking lots.

(In Trumpland, a dollar sign is pasted on everything-
see- Trump's gift shop in DC)

But as the beards have grown grayer, the ritual has changed
in both tone and economics, said Muller, the nonprofit organization’s
executive director. All those permits and porta-potties cost up to
$200,000, much of which has traditionally come from the sale of
vest pins and patches that commemorate each year’s gathering.
At the 2018 ride, the group sold only 50 percent of its inventory.

It hurts to go home with half of your stuff,” Muller said.
“A lot of these millennials that ride with us don’t know
what they’re for and they don’t buy [anything].”

- Artie Muller, the 73-year-old organizer of Washington’s
Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally

The group has counted a number of vocal supporters on
Capitol Hill. One of his strongest Senate allies, Muller said,
is Elizabeth Warren, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts.

“She’s been very good to us,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...051ba8-ffdd-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html

Trump did not say no, to cutting care at the VA in order to hand
money over to his rich pharma bros and private doctor's profit-making
offices. Privatization cut them in on a pool of cash,

The bikers from the original groups, are getting elderly, and Trump has
no sympathy. Trump has less sympathy for wounded young veterans.
Programs and benefits were cut.

What will the military vets piece of the pie look like, in 2020 ?

Trump is getting ready to give the 1% another tax cut.

 

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Gender Studies Have Changed

'They' Is Here To Stay. Get Over It
- author, Jane Roper

August 13, 2019

https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2019/08/13/gender-pronouns-jane-roper

We told Elsa that we would absolutely support their choice and
respect their wishes.

Elsa’s sister was fully on board too and is the first to correct me now
when I slip and use “she” instead of “they.”

(Which I still do sometimes, much to my own frustration.)

As we’ve shared news of Elsa’s decision with our friends
and family, they have been almost universally supportive —
something for which we’re incredibly grateful. Even people
who still haven’t quite wrapped their heads around the notion
of nonbinary gender, have been accepting of Elsa’s choice.
“I don’t understand it,” one acquaintance confessed.
“But I’ll respect it.”

And yet, as accepting as most people are, many still feel the
need to add, with varying degrees of consternation:
“I just have trouble with the fact that ‘they’ is plural.


I do understand why people still balk at the notion of referring
to individual people as “they” on the grounds of grammar and
clarity. Sure, using it can be a pain. There are times when I have
to perform all kinds of syntactical acrobatics to make it clear that
I’m talking about Elsa, singular, as opposed to Elsa and their friends
or Elsa and their sister. I have to use Elsa’s name a lot more. (See?)
It would certainly be a lot easier if English had a singular, gender-
neutral pronoun. But new ones like “xe” or “ae” and “hir” haven’t
gained widespread adoption, probably because it’s easier for people
to become fluent in new meanings for existing words (“web,” anyone?)
than to incorporate completely new words — particularly ones used
as frequently as pronouns. “They” is the best our language has got.

More to the point, it’s what my child, and countless other people
who feel constricted and excluded by the inflexibility of “he” and
“she,” want.

 

[bodysong]

400th anniversary of American Slavery

August 13, 2019

American slavery began 400 years ago this month

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html

August 20, 1619

Point Comfort (Hampton), VA.

Isabella — (after months in captivity)
gave birth to William, the first black child born in the American colonies.

On or about August 20, 1619, Africans—kidnapped from their
homelands and brought to British North America—were brought
by force to Point Comfort, part of today’s Fort Monroe in Hampton,
Virginia. Since 2010, the city of Hampton and several organizations,
including Project 1619, have observed an annual African Landing
Commemoration Day.

The name of the Point Comfort landing place was just one of the
great and bitter ironies of the August 1619 disembarkation, which
led to the establishment of the British trans-Atlantic slave trade,
as well as slavery itself in the British colonies, and, subsequently,
in the United States.

The Point Comfort name derived from the first English settlers
finding “comfort” on this point of land in 1607. But in 1619, the
“20 and odd” Africans were inhumanely traded like chattel by
the captain of the ship White Lion to Virginia’s colonial Governor
George Yeardley and merchant Abraham Peirsey, and dispersed
to several other locations. Another irony was that 1619 also was
the year that a semblance of democracy came to Virginia, as the
colony held its first election for the inaugural House of Burgesses,
the forerunner of today’s Virginia General Assembly.

Zinned Project dot org first-africans-virginia

Hampton forum on first Africans to English North America
explores arrival, genealogy

May 29, 2019

The trail goes back centuries. It stretches across continents.
It tells a story of hundreds of Africans ambushed in their
native land and later imprisoned on a slaver galleon, the
San Juan Bautista, which also was ambushed.

Overtaking the galleon were English and Dutch privateers.
The latter, who sailed the White Lion, eventually came to
Old Point Comfort late August 1619, bringing only its crew
and “20 and Odd” Africans, as recorded by early colonist
John Rolfe.

“There is so much paperwork written about them.
There is some paperwork in Spain, in Angola, in
Bermuda, in Mexico … on just these 20 or so
Africans. The boat they were on was pirated …
it almost created an international incident between
Spain and England.”

“We are correcting the false narrative."
"It’s so important that we get this story right.”

-Ric Murphy

“Unveiled — the Twenty and Odd:
Documenting the First Africans in England’s America 1619-1625 and Beyond”

- author, Kathryn Knight

http://touch.dailypress.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-116668235/

 

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Richard Curran: '

Trump's $19bn weekly deficit is stirring up future trouble'

Trump administration has said it will run up a budget deficit of $1trn
this year. A similar figure is expected for next year. Think about that
figure. It represents the US government spending $19.2bn more every
week than it takes in.

National debt in the US is running at $22trn, up $2trn since
Trump became president.

Trump said during his election campaign that he would do away
with deficits and even wipe out the national debt within eight
years. It has increased by $2,000bn since he took over.

Trump's administration is increasing spending, cutting taxes
and racking up ever-bigger budget deficits during an
economic boom, not a crisis.

https://www.independent.ie/business...t-is-stirring-up-future-trouble-38384377.html

Trump is booby-trapping the USA economy ?

"The scale of the clawback further down the road is enormous,
given that during the good times, they are spending nearly
$20bn per week more than they are taking in."

- Richard Curran

August 8 2019

 

[bodysong]

The re-cap article that drew Trump Trolls,
like flowers draw bees. (Or flies to poop)

The Rolling Stones Live—Not Sucking in Their 70s

The Stones kicked ass in a football stadium last night,
albeit with a setlist that rarely went beyond the most
obvious hits.

by Dave Segal • Aug 15, 2019 at 12:19 pm

Mick Jagger hasn't gained an ounce of weight since
“(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”—last night's set finale,
of course—hit the charts. Mick Jagger is 76 and
coming off heart surgery, yet he is damn near a
perpetual motion machine onstage. Mick Jagger is
three years older than Donald Trump, yet the Rolling Stones
singer covered more ground in last night's two-hour set than
the dungheap in the Offal Office has done since stealing the
2016 election. It would not be a stretch to say that even at
his advanced age, Mick Jagger could've had his way sexually
with 80 percent of the CenturyLink Field crowd—conservative
estimate. And Sir Michael Philip Jagger can still sing his petite
ass off. He is truly an exemplar of rock-and-roll as an anti-aging
agent.

The (Rolling) Stones encored with “Gimme Shelter” and “Satisfaction,”
choices as predictable as a 5-star Jann Wenner review of a Mick Jagger
solo album. And yeah, they duly slayed, even though you've heard these
songs hundreds of times. Ultimately, we came for a honkin' nostalgia
wallow, and we went away as happy as Trumps in grift.
“Heaven” can wait.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...-rolling-stones-live-not-sucking-in-their-70s

bodysong comment- Trump is the newsfeed, just as
spam in the Monty Python spam song.

There is Trump in everything. Why is Trump in an article
about a Rolling Stones concert ? Trump put himself in there.
He uses their songs at his Hate Rally because he has a grudge
against them. They fired him. They tried to get him to stop.
He refused. They do not want to get involved in a court case.
Trump continues to entertain his Hate Rally with their songs.

What did the article say about Trump ?

Trump is old!
Trump has stolen the election.
Trump never had sex appeal.
Trump could never carry off a demanding physical job.
(that involves talent and endurance.)
Trump is a grifter.

Nearly everyone knows these things to be true.

What happened after the article was published ?

Trump trolls responded.

Who Knew So Many Rolling Stones Fans Were Trump Supporters?
by Dave Segal • Aug 21, 2019 at 12:10 pm

Below is a sampling of the hate mail I received; it can be perceived
as a microcosm of the MAGA-infested mindset. All emails are as
[sic] as [sic] can be.

Dear DAVE ANTIFA DUNG MAGGET

You pond scum PIECE OF SHIT.
WAKE THE FUCK UP YOU ANTIFA
LIBERAL QUEER SHIT EATER.

GO KILL YOUR SELF PLEASE.

THE MASSES WHO HATE YOU
Trump Train Forever!!!!!!

MAGA YOU LIBERAL DICK SUCKER

My response: Oh, good, another illiterate whine from somebody
who supports a rapist/racist/traitor/Putin puppet. You sure come
off as a low-IQ, gullible fool who can't spell. But thanks for reading
and boosting The Stranger's bottom line.

(bodysong comment- more email responses at the link)

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/20...any-rolling-stones-fans-were-trump-supporters

Waitress: ...or Lobster Thermidor au Crevette with
a Mornay sauce served in a Provencale manner with
shallots and aubergines garnished with truffle pate,
brandy and with a fried egg on top and spam.

Wife: Have you got anything without spam?

Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam,
that's not got much spam in it.

Wife: I don't want ANY spam!

Man: Why can't she have egg bacon spam and sausage?

Wife: THAT'S got spam in it!

Man: Hasn't got as much spam in it as spam egg sausage and spam, has it?

Vikings: Spam spam spam spam (crescendo through next few lines)

 

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Hope Hicks left.
She is leaving, too.


Per the (NY) Times story, Trump recently became aware that Westerhout
revealed intimate details about his family and the White House with
the press at an off-the-record dinner during the president’s recent
vacation in Bedminster, New Jersey. Upon hearing of her comments,
she was immediately barred from the White House grounds and labeled
a “separated employee.” She officially resigned from her job on Thursday.

https://www.mediaite.com/news/nytim...gns-for-dishing-on-first-family-to-reporters/



“Madeleine is the key,” Trump said.
“She’s the secret. Because she’s the person—”

Trump didn’t finish the thought, alas.
But his description of Madeleine Westerhout,
his 27-year-old executive assistant, piqued
our interest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...nd-gatekeeper-to-the-president/?noredirect=on



Next stop, FOX TV ?
(Or back to the Trump Campaign Trail)

Director of Oval Office Operations at the White House
Executive Assistant

Madeleine Westerhout (@madwest45)


Madeleine Westerhout on Twitter:
"Very excited for Hope Hicks! She


Very excited for Hope Hicks!
She will do a fantastic job as White House
Communications Director!

6:27 AM - 12 Sep 2017

Hope Hicks
Personal Assistant

 

[bodysong]

ALEC remains, after the companies that need reasonably
clean reputations, jumped ship. Who does not need a
reputation that is sparkling clean ? Major detention
operators (privately- owned) CoreCivic and GEO Group

"46th annual American Legislative Exchange Council conference"

August 30, 2019

"Hijacking the legislative process to serve corporate interests
and right-wing billionaires is not welcome in Texas," said
Texas AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Montserrat Garibay.
"ALEC has promoted far-right agendas on the environment,
health care, disability rights, voting rights, immigration, and
on other issues that we address every day in a quest to build
a better Texas. They are a secretive, partisan shadow group.
And this week, ALEC is in Austin working behind closed
doors to hatch more bad bills."

"ALEC is not a bunch of elected officials-
"ALEC is the corporate special interests that see the best way
of making money as trampling on every worker's rights,
every civil right, and trampling on the planet. They are not
elected officials, they are just the puppets of these corporations
that pick and choose to extract their profit."

So how influential is ALEC in Texas? A damning new report
by the Center for Media and Democracy – released just days
before ALEC rode into Austin – offers us an answer.

CMD identified 59 Texas legislators with known ties to ALEC –
almost one-third of the Legislature.

https://www.austinchronicle.com/new...-lines-at-alecs-right-wing-policy-conference/

 

[bodysong]

We analyzed 53 years of mass shooting data.

Attacks aren’t just increasing, they’re getting deadlier

The Odessa and Midland, Texas, mass shooting further confirms
what’s disturbingly clear: Attacks are becoming more frequent
and are getting deadlier.

LA Times

53 People Died in Mass Shootings in August Alone (2019) in the U.S.

NY Times

US mass shootings, 1982-2019:

Data from Mother Jones' investigation

Mother Jones

 

[bodysong]

The Return of Officer Pepper Spray

However, the main cause of the overall scuffle in the 4pm melee
was simple: after wielding his pepper spray in the face of a protester,
the Captain drops his canister of pepper spray. In order to retrieve it,
he rapidly pushes back the protester in front of him, and the person
to his right punches the protester in the jaw in order to make more
space for the Captain to retrieve his pepper spray. In parallel, a second
officer uses his pepper spray to break up the fight — and 4 seconds later,
after the Captain retreives his pepper spray, he pops back up and sprays
the entire crowd again.

- Christopher Schmidt

https://medium.com/@crschmidt/capta...lear-and-present-danger-to-boston-9b776893b39

NYC Occupy Wall Street- style brutality used by Boston police against protesters.

(Kettle the protesters, use direct pepper spray, use violence against them.
Resulted in broken bones, head injuries, and bruises. Vists to the hospital
for medical treatment of direct spraying of pepper spray to the face.)

Police Pepper-Sprayed, Arrested Protesters at Straight Pride Parade

The event was mostly a "Trump 2020" float,
and protesters dwarfed participants.

Now those fighting back against the hateful message must appear in court.

Police protected the few paradegoers while wearing riot gear.
Video shows police pepper-spraying the crowd and pushing
protesters to the ground.

https://www.advocate.com/politics/2...yed-arrested-protesters-straight-pride-parade

September 03 2019


Michelle Wu questions police tactics at ‘Straight Pride Parade’

The Boston city councilor said the heavy police presence
set the "tone" for both sides.

Wu said that having so many police present — many wearing riot gear —
set the “tone” for both sides Saturday.

Having that many officers from all across the region, including
paramilitary units from outside Boston, set a tone of tension/conflict
for civilians AND fellow law enforcement. We need to understand
how that decision was made, especially bc 2020 won’t be the quietest
of years.

— Michelle Wu 吳弭 (@wutrain) September 4, 2019




DA Asks Mass. High Court To Intervene
In 'Straight Pride' Protesters Case

September 05, 2019

The dispute between Rollins (Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins)
and Sinnott (Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott)
began Tuesday- when the Judge Sinnot denied DA Rollin's request
to dismiss charges in at least seven of the 36 cases stemming from
the parade.


On Wednesday, Sinnott held defense lawyer Susan Church in contempt
after he denied Rollins' office request to drop charges against her client,
who was a counterprotester. Sinnott had Church handcuffed and detained
for about two hours- because she began reading from case law suggesting
he had no authority to overrule Rollins' decision not to prosecute the case.

While her office has moved to drop charges against some of Saturday's
protesters, DA Rollins is still pursuing charges against those facing more
serious offenses.

Among them were three men arraigned Tuesday on charges of assault
and battery on a police officer. The men were ordered by a judge not
to set foot again in Boston except for required court appearances,
or else face jail time.

"Make no mistake: some people were appropriately arraigned and will
be held accountable for actions that put the safety of the public and
law enforcement at risk," DA Rollins said Tuesday.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/09/0...ial-court-boston-counterprotesters-judge-spat

A defense lawyer for a ‘Straight Pride Parade’ protester
was cited for contempt of court after a tense exchange
with a judge.

-Christopher Gavin

(DA Rachael Rollins blasts judge for refusing to dismiss charges
against nonviolent ‘Straight Pride Parade’ protesters)

A defense lawyer representing a protester arrested at the
“Straight Pride Parade” was cited for contempt of court
and later released from custody Wednesday after challenging
a judge’s refusal to drop the charges against her client and
others as has been requested by prosecutors.

“The issue is that your honor does not have the authority to
prevent the district attorneys from entering a nolle pros,”
she said. “The case law is abundantly clear.”

A nolle pros is a notice filed by prosecutors indicating
they will dismiss the charges against a defendant.

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2019/09/04/susan-church-contempt-of-court


Attorney Susan Church is welcomed outside the courtroom
to applause. She says she was unlawfully and unjustly taken
in handcuffs and held in contempt by Judge Richard Sinnott
while she was arguing on behalf of a #StraightPrideParade
protester. Hours later, she was released.

— Kristina Rex (@KristinaRex) September 4, 2019

She said the law is clear that the district attorney’s office
is within its rights and Sinnott cannot reject its requests.

“All I was trying to do was to read the law to the court,
and I was summarily arrested, handcuffed, brought down
to the holding cell, held there for hours — much of the day —
sat there wondering if I was going to jail that night, whether
I was going to see my children at dinner that night, what I
was going to do about my work and my clients, simply for
advocating for my client,” Church said.

 

[bodysong]

Con man dynasty

Where did Trump learn to operate the Trump University scam ?

Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr.'s spawn

Liberty University insiders blow the lid off Jerry Falwell Jr’s
shady dealings: ‘Somebody’s gotta tell the freakin’ truth’

“We’re not a school; we’re a real estate hedge fund,” said
a senior university official with inside knowledge of Liberty’s
finances. “We’re not educating; we’re buying real estate
every year and taking students’ money to do it.”

January, the Wall Street Journal reported that in the run-
up to Trump’s presidential campaign, Cohen hired John
Gauger, a Liberty University employee who runs a private
consulting firm, to manipulate online polls in Trump’s favor.
Not previously reported is the fact that, according to a half-
dozen high-level Liberty University sources, when Gauger
traveled to New York to collect payment from Cohen, he
was joined by Trey Falwell, a vice president at Liberty.
During that trip, Trey posted a now-deleted photo to
Instagram of around $12,000 in cash spread on a hotel
bed, raising questions about his knowledge of Gauger’s
poll-rigging work. Trey did not respond to requests for
comment.

The school uses nondisclosure agreements to prohibit many
university employees or board members from openly
discussing what they’ve seen Falwell do.

“It’s a dictatorship,” one current high-level employee of
the school said. “Nobody craps at the university without
Jerry’s (Falwell) approval.”

Many Falwell confidants are concerned with where they
see that university tuition money going: into university-
funded construction and real estate projects that enrich
the Falwell family and their friends.

Under Falwell Jr., Liberty University is “a totally
dysfunctional organization,” one board member
wrote in an email reviewed for this article.
“Very similar to Trump’s White House.”

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/09/09/jerry-falwell-liberty-university-loans-227914

Preaching religion, forcing people to obey through threats,
ordering a blind eye to corruption, hypocrisy, and abuse.
Breaking the law, and developing a dictatorship over a
whole town,

True Trump supporters.

 

[bodysong]

Sep 11, 2019

The Storm Area 51 event originated when Matty Roberts, 21,
started a satirical Facebook event called “Storm Area 51,
They Can’t Stop Us All.” The event is still listed on Facebook
as scheduled for September 20 and has two million RSVP’d
as attending. People are now being asked to attend the Area 51
Celebration on Thursday, September 19 at 8 p.m. Pacific instead.
This event is being held at the downtown Las Vegas Events Center
and is still happening. It’s coined as being the “Official Celebration”
for the Storm Area 51 satirical event.

An Alienstock event that was happening in conjunction with the
Area 51 raid has changed dramatically, Popular Mechanics reported.
Matty Roberts pulled out of the event, voicing concern that the
infrastructure wasn’t in place to make the event a success.
He’s no longer affiliated with Storm Area 51 and is now
having the Area 51 Celebration instead, in conjunction
with Bud Light.

Roberts said in a statement: “Due to lack of infrastructure,
poor planning, risk management and blatant disregard for
the safety of the expected 10,000+ AlienStock attendees,
we decided to pull the plug on the festival,” Deseret News
reported.

West has insisted that her Alienstock is still happening and
the real webpage for that event is AlienstockParking.com,
KTNV reported. The Festival is still scheduled for
September 19-22 in Rachel, Nevada, but Roberts is
no longer involved, citing concern it will be a
humanitarian disaster.

https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/ties-granzier-jacob-sweep-arrested-area-51/