Pompeo Held Elaborate Dinners For Elites And Prospective Donors–At Taxpayer Expense. He and his wife are seriously corrupt. No wonder he had the IG fired. A must-read. BTW, Pompeo lied about not knowing of an investigation into his actions. Turns out he refused an interview with the IG.
Voter Suppression In TX. How the Rethugs are going all-out to limit absentee voting. You just know that they’ll eventually prevail.
Trump Fires IG Investigating Elaine Chao. You know, Mitch McConnell’s wife. Here’s why. Yet another criminal channeling money to themselves and/or their patrons.
Everything Falls Apart, Ctd. Global. US. The latest carnage: 1,528,661 confirmed cases and 91,938 deaths in the US. That’s 1600 more deaths yesterday.
Disastrous Floods Hit Michigan. Two dams fail. We’re gonna have our share of natural disasters at the same time we’re battling the pandemic. Some states will be up to the task, some won’t. The Feds won’t.
Trump Goes After Obama, Hits Lindsey Graham. Ya just gotta love this:
Trump has been leaning on powerful Republicans to join his war on Obama, sources told me. Last Thursday, Trump tweeted at Senate Judiciary chair Lindsey Graham, saying that Graham needed to call Obama to testify at hearings on Michael Flynn’s unmasking and the origin of the Russia probe. Graham rejected the request. “Trump thinks Lindsey isn’t doing anything on Flynn,” a former White House official said. According to the former official, Trump recently asked prominent allies to tweet negative things about Graham, and he has been complaining that Graham is a hanger-on. “Trump has said, ‘Since [John] McCain died, Lindsey follows me around and shows up to play golf and I don’t even invite him,’” according to the source briefed on the conversation.
I’m tellin’ ya, that SC Senate seat is in play.
‘Jane Roe’ Was Bribed By The Christian Right. ‘It was all an act’, says Norma McCorvey. Check this out. You simply must read this. Even one of the evangelists who paraded her around admitted that she was a paid employee of the Anti-Choice movement. A choice snippet:
But those filmmakers, and the rest of the pro-life evangelical community, have another curveball coming. In the final third of director Nick Sweeney’s 79-minute documentary, featuring many end-of-life reflections from McCorvey—who grew up queer, poor, and was sexually abused by a family member her mother sent her to live with after leaving reform school—the former Jane Roe admits that her later turn to the anti-abortion camp as a born-again Christian was “all an act.”
“This is my deathbed confession,” she chuckles, sitting in a chair in her nursing home room, on oxygen. Sweeney asks McCorvey, “Did [the evangelicals] use you as a trophy?” “Of course,” she replies. “I was the Big Fish.” “Do you think you would say that you used them?” Sweeney responds. “Well,” says McCorvey, “I think it was a mutual thing. I took their money and they took me out in front of the cameras and told me what to say. That’s what I’d say.” She even gives an example of her scripted anti-abortion lines. “I’m a good actress,” she points out. “Of course, I’m not acting now.”
Rethug Governors Change The Numbers When The Numbers Don’t Suit Them. Florida case-tracker fired, Georgia governor gets caught cooking the numbers. Oh, and Ohio has simply stopped counting coronavirus cases in prisons b/c the numbers are too high. Oh, and Texas is fudging the number of cases. All in the name of reopening the economy despite data that doesn’t support reopening.
Carney Vs. Rethugs. Carney wins.
What do you want to talk about?