DL Open Thread: Saturday, April 9, 2022
Michigan Conspirators Skate On Plans To Kidnap Michigan Governor. In case you missed it, justice isn’t blind. Never was.
Wow–Federal Funds Being Used For Something Other Than Tax Rebates: The better side of Michiganders’ nature:
LANSING, Mich. — In an underserved neighborhood of Michigan’s capital city, a health clinic is being built with nearly $900,000 in federal pandemic relief funds, a project that could transform the community’s access to care.
Wedged among new affordable apartments and a community center, the clinic is a symbol of the rapid effect the funds have had on many local public health programs.
In Michigan and some other states, stimulus aid for cities and counties has been put to use more quickly than billions in state-designated funds, some of which remain tied up in legislatures deadlocked over how to spend them. And while much of the local aid is going to other priorities, many cities and counties say the rescue funds have provided an opening to improve chronically underfunded public health systems as they recover from the pandemic, addressing entrenched health disparities that Covid-19 has made worse.
Trump, Jr.: Better Or Worse Than Hunter Biden? We report. You decide:
Two days after the 2020 presidential election, as votes were still being tallied, Donald Trump’s eldest son texted then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows that “we have operational control” to ensure his father would get a second term, with Republican majorities in the US Senate and swing state legislatures, CNN has learned.
In the text, which has not been previously reported, Donald Trump Jr. lays out ideas for keeping his father in power by subverting the Electoral College process, according to the message reviewed by CNN. The text is among records obtained by the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021.“It’s very simple,” Trump Jr. texted to Meadows on November 5, adding later in the same missive: “We have multiple paths We control them all.”
The state of Pennsylvania has agreed to pay $865,000 to settle a federal lawsuit alleging that its state troopers routinely and unconstitutionally pulled over Latino drivers, demanded their “papers” and held them and their passengers for pickup by federal immigration authorities — a practice that escalated markedly after President Donald Trump took office in 2017.
The complaint, filed by the Pennsylvania ACLU and drawing in part on a 2018 series of ProPublica articles published in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, detailed cases of state troopers stopping and then detaining immigrants under the auspices of federal immigration laws, which it alleged they had no authority to enforce. The immigrants were engaged in ordinary, legal activities, according to the complaint: traveling to see family members, driving to or from work, buying a soda in a state police barracks, awaiting medical help following a traffic accident or, in one case, returning from a job interview accompanied by a wife who was nine months pregnant.
Need I point out that $865,000 that doesn’t directly come out of the cops’ pockets is hardly a deterrent? OK, I won’t.
DeSantis Threatens ‘Cold War’ With Georgia If Stacey Abrams Wins. If he wins, he’s more dangerous than Trump. This guy’s George Wallace at a time when every mouth-breather in America is looking for another George Wallace. Hate personified.
What’s Old Is New Again. Wilmington City Council to hire former Mayor Jim Baker to teach Council about–Wilmington? I always liked Baker. However, his undeniable intellect was always in battle with his dismissiveness, especially of City Council:
The council announced it would contract former Wilmington Mayor James Baker as a consultant for the council for Fiscal Year 2023. Congo said there are general ideas for how they’d like Baker to be involved, but there are no specifics laid out just yet.
“I haven’t had conversation with him to know where he stands on some of my concerns. We haven’t had those conversations yet,” Congo said. “I think he might be able to help us be more strategic. I think the council as a whole–not necessarily every council person but I think council as a whole–understands the need for police reform and some of the concerns I’ve been outspoken about. I think former Mayor Baker can help us be more strategic in the path forward.”
In announcing the consultancy, a release from the council detailed Baker would be paid $40,020 to “assist and provide guidance” over the course of 12 months for things listed in the announcement as “legislative and policy development, strategic planning, cable franchising, land use development, condemnation, eminent domain, serving as a conduit with State and Federal Legislators on pertinent matters for Council, and fiscal budgetary matters.”
A) wake me up when crime doesn’t pay – or at least when I shouldn’t be concerned about any repercussions
B) not only is city council inept but they publicly state they are inept
I see that Trump endorsed Dr. Oz, the Pride of Tower Hill School, in the Pa. Senate race.
I find it highly amusing that none of the nation’s millions of pundits have yet noticed that Trump endorses whichever candidate he’s heard the name of.
Bingo:
““Dr. Oz. Great guy, good man. He’s a good man. Harvard educated, tremendous, tremendous career and they liked him for a long time. That’s like a poll. You know, when you’re in television for 18 years, that’s like a poll, that means people like you.”
Ha, I could have made up this quote so easily. He’s a self parody at this point.
Well, he’s sort of right. I mean, if Trump were on fire I’d piss on him. Of course, I’d piss on him if he weren’t on fire either.