22 thoughts on “Fuentes Fallout”

  1. The former president claims he didn’t recognize a known white supremacist who tagged along when Kanye West visited Mar-a-Lago, and Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker still claims his Texas home as his primary residence.

  2. good time for 1st question capitol press corps asks in every interview they have with congress critters (particularly the GOPer kind) is what they think of the host and his dinner party at mal an ego.

  3. If a hook falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make a sound?
    (if it’s a hook by Donny Hathaway, it definitely makes a joyful noise)

  6. MoJo talks about how Sen. Warnock lets the people of GA speak out in a new kind of campaign ad

    In a new campaign ad for Sen. Raphael Warnock ahead of the Senate runoff election in Georgia, voters react to recent campaign remarks from Republican challenger Herschel Walker.

  7. and speaking of those voters

    Georgia Voters Break Sunday Record As They Settle Last Senate Race Of The Midterms (talkingpointsmemo.com)

    and

    Georgia voters cast ballots in the country’s last unresolved U.S. Senate race : NPR

    A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:
    Early voting is underway in Georgia to decide the country’s last unresolved U.S. Senate race.
    RACHEL MARTIN, HOST:
    Incumbent Democrat Raphael Warnock is in a runoff with Republican challenger Herschel Walker, the former football star.
    MARTÍNEZ: WABE’s Sam Gringlas has been covering the race. He joins us now from Atlanta. Sam, mentioned early voting, starting all over Georgia today. But didn’t some counties get started over the weekend?
    SAM GRINGLAS, BYLINE: Yeah, almost 200,000 people have already voted in this runoff. Georgia’s most populous counties pretty much all opened early voting over the weekend. And at some polling places, lines wrapped around the building. That Saturday voting day – it came about after a legal fight between the state and Democratic groups who disagreed over whether Georgia law allowed it. The Warnock campaign pushed really hard for Saturday voting because the runoff is really quick under Georgia’s new voting law. It’s just four weeks. Election officials like Dele Lowman Smith in DeKalb County, just outside Atlanta, have also been scrambling to prep for this runoff while also certifying the last election.
    DELE LOWMAN SMITH: It has been nonstop for our staff and just a very punishing timeline.
    GRINGLAS: And early voting – it’s going to last through Friday.
    MARTÍNEZ: All right. Now, for those who don’t know, this is how it works. In Georgia, runoffs happen when no candidate tops 50% of the vote – so kind of like a midterms in overtime. So have the two candidates, Sam, tweaked their message at all for this final stretch?
    GRINGLAS: Well, Raphael Warnock is framing this runoff as a choice about competence and character. Herschel Walker comes with baggage, including allegations of domestic violence. And last month, Walker got 200,000 fewer votes than Republican Governor Brian Kemp did. So Warnock has been explicitly appealing to Republican voters who did not vote for Walker.
    […]
    GRINGLAS: I checked back in with another couple, independent voters who split their tickets. The husband will vote again for Warnock. The wife is not sure if she’ll go back or not. But runoffs can be really unpredictable. The Warnock campaign says they’ll knock more doors in this four-week runoff than the last four months of the general. Republicans say they’ve got 500 staffers on the ground. And all that highlights the priority here, turnout, getting supporters back to the polls and trying to convince voters who stayed home a month ago to vote by December 6.

  8. editorial board Opinion | Elon Musk is harming free speech on Twitter, not protecting it – The Washington Post

    […]
    The approach Mr. Musk has instead chosen undermines the values he claims to cherish. Slashing the number of staff devoted to policing content can end up harming civil liberties: The Post reports that Twitter is drowning in nuisance posts, mostly pornography, spewed onto the platform by accounts connected to the Chinese Communist Party, in an effort to obscure news of recent protests. Many of the analysts the company had to root out influence operations reportedly no longer work there.
    Moreover, spotty rule enforcement — or even knowingly permitting rule violations — will make Twitter’s decision-making more arbitrary and, therefore, less conducive to free expression. The most credible criticism of Mr. Trump’s removal after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection was that it was capricious, seeming to spring not from a violation of any specific policy but rather from a seat-of-the-pants reaction to offline developments. As things stand now, it is unclear what one can and cannot say on Twitter — or what Mr. Musk’s next poll might result in.
    Those who believe in free expression on Twitter should be fighting for clear and consistent policies along with transparent enforcement. Instead, Mr. Musk has brought chaos.

  9. Wouldn’t it be ironic if a dinner with a White Nationalist is what finally uncouples Orange Adolf from the GQP.  

  10. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/economy/china-white-paper-protests-stock-run-intl-hnk/index.html

    “In a symbolic protest against censorship, young demonstrators held up sheets of white paper — a metaphor for the critical social media posts, news articles, and outspoken online accounts that have been wiped from the internet as thousands of people took to the streets.”

    “On Monday, shares of M&G Stationery, a household name with more than 80,000 retail outlets across China, tumbled as much as 3% after a document widely circulated on Chinese social media said the company would ban the nationwide sale of A4 white paper sheets both online and offline, starting Tuesday.”

    “The document shared on social media said the ban was to “maintain national security and stability” and “prevent outlaws from hoarding a large amount of A4 white paper and using it for illegal subversive activities.”

    “Shortly after its stock fell, M&G Stationery said the document circulating online was fabricated and that the company had notified the police, according to a filing published on the Shanghai Stock Exchange’s website.”

    “If the rumor is false, then why doesn’t its Taobao store support the delivery of A4 paper to many parts of China?” said a Weibo user with the IP location in Liaoning province.”

    Another user with the IP address in Shandong province said the delivery could fail if one’s address is in major cities like Beijing and Shanghai.

  11. So the Dumbass 1 camp and the other Dumbass (2) camp said Dumbass 1 won’t be going to Georgia to support Dumbass 2’s last minute campaigning.  The announcement said they both agreed that there is more potential risk than reward of D1 appearing with D2 between now and the runoff.

  13. bla bla…and our heart and prayers are with you.
    These are the same peope who think arming everyone is the way to end gun violence
    I dooubt any of them have given up tellling anti-semetic jokes
     

  14. https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/georgia-senate-herschel-walker-texas-kfile/index.html

    “Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, facing renewed and growing questions about his residency in the final week of the runoff campaign, described himself during a campaign speech in January as living in Texas and said he decided to run for Georgia’s Senate seat while at his Texas “home,” according to a CNN KFile review of his campaign speeches.

    “…CNN’s KFile reported last week that Walker was getting a tax break in Texas intended for a primary residence, possibly running afoul of Texas tax law and some rules for establishing Georgia residency for voting and running for office.”

  15. USMT beats Iran 1-0 to advance to knockout round of World Cup. USA, USA, … Now what did I do with my vuvuzela?

  17. And Stuart Rhodes (and his 4 conspirators) has been found guilty of seditious conspiracy. WaPo.

    A federal jury on Tuesday convicted Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes of seditious conspiracy for leading a months-long plot to unleash political violence to prevent the inauguration of President Biden, culminating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

    The panel of 12 District residents deliberated for three daysbefore finding Rhodes guilty of conspiring to oppose by force the lawful transition of presidential power.

    Rhodes, in a dark suit and black eye-patch from an old gun accident, stood at the defense table, watching as verdicts continued to be read for him and four co-defendants facing a 13-count indictment.

    The indictment brought against Rhodes, 56, and other Oath Keepers associates in January was the first time the U.S. government leveled the historically rare charge of seditious conspiracy in the massive Jan. 6 investigation. He is the highest-profile figure to face trial in connection with rioting by angry Trump supporters who injured scores of officers and ransacked offices, forcing the evacuation of lawmakers.

    Rhodes and followers, dressed in combat-style gear, converged on the Capitol after staging an “arsenal” of weapons at nearby hotels, ready to take up arms at Rhodes’s direction, the government charged. Rhodes’s defense said he and co-defendants came to Washington as bodyguards and peacekeepers, bringing firearms only in case Trump met their demand to mobilize private militia to stop Biden from becoming president.

    The verdict in Rhodes’s case likely will be taken as a bellwether for two remaining Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy trials set for December against five other Oath Keepers and leaders of the Proud Boys, including the longtime chairman Henry ‘Enrique’ Tarrio. Both Rhodes and Tarrio are highly visible leaders of the alt-right or far-right anti-government movements, and were highlighted at hearings probing the attack earlier this year by the House Jan. 6 committee.

    The Justice Department arrested Rhodes in January and Tarrio in June after an internal debate over whether the magnitude and organization behind the Capitol attack merited bringing rarely used seditious conspiracy charges. Bringing the politically charged count posed a higher risk at trial because it required that prosecutors prove the defendants harbored an intent to forcibly oppose the federal government, compared to the charge of conspiring to obstruct a proceeding of Congress, which is punishable by the same 20-year maximum prison term.

    […]

    Fuck ’em. (Did I write that or was I just thinking it?)

  18. following on from the prior WaPo article…

    “All of my effort was on what Trump could do,” Rhodes testified. He said his focus was lawfully lobbying Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to legally call out the military and private militia to keep power. Rhodes testified that he purchased $20,000 of firearms and related equipment before Jan. 6, and members brought their own guns, waiting for such a call.

    Now THAT’S what I call irony.

    And following up on Poobah’s comment –

    Rhodes’s group was the first of about 50 defendants to face trial in connection with Jan. 6 on some type of conspiracy charge. The government has secured felony convictions against all 14 Jan. 6 defendants who have gone to trial on felony counts, although juries hung on some charges in two cases.

    Overall, about 900 people face federal charges in the rioting, half with felonies such as assaulting police or obstructing a congressional proceeding. About 450, roughly half of the total charged, have pleaded guilty.

    Now get out of our country (OK, into prison)

  19. The times, they are a changin’
    twit is looking pretty rough.  I’ve had several little issues since sfb lite bought the new shiny toy.  Nothing severe, just little things.  Not everybody is as fortunate.  Some are under attack by freakin’ idiots of the frwnj cult members.
     
    Which brings up the new destinations.  Mastodon is a major location, but due to its weirdness tends to not be easy to use for most. It is simple, there are a lot of groups (servers) with different primary interests, you pick one you think you like (you can change anytime), and join up. Post.news is gaining strength every day.  Because Post is not in production you have to ask to be let in.  I like Mastodon for reasons of the lack of rabid thoughts of politics.  I like Post.news for being more linear on the flow of news.  A lot more news orgs are joining both.
     
    The twit debacle is doing what is so common in many areas.  The old whatever is replaced by the new whichever.  Just like Norm leading the procession for the changing of the keg.  In this case the old was destroyed not for staying the same but for going backwards. The new are both fresh and looking forward.  Post.news is still not “born” yet, it is in beta, which means working but in test and development. 
     
    I am on both.  Mastodon @pamsails@mindly.social   Post.news @pamsails  (get in early, get first choice of names)
     
    Of interest is the last two days I have seen major orgs/people state to only use their Mastodon address, occasionally adding their Post.news address.  Given the fervent H8 of the frwnj cult members over the last decades due to the use of H8 Media all the time, the media seem to be the strongest proponents of leaving twit.
     
    I am already way down on twit usage, and spreading more to Mastodon and Post.news

  21. Hand guns are made for killin’
    They ain’t no good for nothin’ else.
    And if you like to drink your whiskey
    You might even shoot yourself.
    So why don’t we dump ’em people
    To the bottom of the sea
    Before some ol’ fool come around here
    Wanna shoot either you or me.

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