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June 19, 2021

"Italygate" Washington Post 💥Bizarro💥 story - too many craaaazy elements to reference or tease.

‘Italygate’ election conspiracy theory was pushed by two firms led by woman who also falsely claimed $30 million mansion was hers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/italygate-michele-edwards-meadows-trump/2021/06/19/2f6314d2-d05f-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html

just posting what I can in 4 paragraphs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=&w=916
Michele Roosevelt Edwards, then known as Michele Ballarin, is seen in Warrenton, Va., in 2013. She’s a former Republican congressional candidate who has claimed in the past to negotiate with warlords and pirates in war-torn Somalia. (D.A. Peterson for The Washington Post)


Edwards was formerly known as Michele Ballarin but changed her name last year, court records show. In 2013, The Post’s magazine explored how Edwards, once a struggling single mom, had reinvented herself as a business executive and then as a well-connected horse-country socialite who cultivated ties with senior Somali officials.

The North Wales mansion ($30 M) was for sale at the time, and Edwards was a licensed Realtor in the area, according to the firm’s website. Hers was not the firm Ford’s widow had hired to sell the property.


Italygate appears to be partly rooted in a news article published on Dec. 1 by the Italian newspaper La Verità. In the article, Daniele Capezzone, a reporter and TV commentator described as “the Sean Hannity of the Italian press” by some Italygate proponents, wrote that Trump’s team was investigating whether an official in the U.S. Embassy in Rome conspired with an unnamed Italian defense contractor to manipulate the U.S. election.


Zack, 57, has said in interviews with right-wing media outlets that she told Trump about the conspiracy theory on Christmas Eve at Mar-a-Lago, the president’s private club in Palm Beach, Fla.

June 19, 2021

⚠️ WARNING ⚠️ Cole Beasley (pro football player) isn't vaccinated and is stupid.

Beasley took to Twitter hours after he said he spoke with the NFLPA soon after complaining about its jointly agreed-to policy with the NFL regarding COVID-19 protocols.

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bills wide receiver Cole Beasley released a statement on Twitter on Friday in response to the sharp backlash he has received on social media, disclosing that he is not vaccinated and pledging to "live my one life like I want to regardless."

"I will be outside doing what I do," he wrote. "I'll be out in public. If your [sic] scared of me then steer clear, or get vaccinated. ... I may die of covid, but I'd rather die actually living.

"I'm not going to take meds for a leg that isn't broken. I'd rather take my chances with Covid and build up my immunity that way. ... I'll play for free this year to live life how I've lived it from day one. If I'm forced into retirement, so be it."

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/31660735/buffalo-bills-wr-cole-beasley-addresses-vaccination-concerns-nflpa

https://twitter.com/bease11/status/1405971914607239172?s=21

June 18, 2021

double-lung transplant regrets not getting vaccine

Full headline
A man who spent 4 months in hospital with COVID-19 and ended up with a double-lung transplant said he regrets not getting the vaccine

https://news.yahoo.com/man-spent-4-months-hospital-150724636.html

A man who spent four months battling coronavirus in hospital and almost died from the virus said he regretted not getting a coronavirus vaccine.

Garza told CNN that he ended up days away from dying, but got the transplant in April.

Garza urged other people to get the vaccine.

"Think about your family. Because what I went through, I had to put my family through, also," he said.
"I wish people would at least reconsider, or at least listen to what we went through, and hopefully you never have to go through that - ever."
CNN noted that Garza has diabetes and high blood pressure, conditions that make him particularly vulnerable to the virus and that gave him earlier access to the vaccine.

June 18, 2021

The Post Office is delivering today

Skeleton crew at work. I heard the “doorbell” ring and it’s our mail lady (that sounds funny).

She said that 24 hours notice isn’t enough to have the day off so she and “ essential personnel” had to come in today.

She used our bathroom as usual. We are that part of her duly route.

June 18, 2021

Foo Fighters to release disco album "Hail Satin" as the Dee Gees

July 17th

https://news.yahoo.com/foo-fighters-release-disco-album-122439845.html

The Foo Fighters have unveiled their new musical direction - transforming from stadium rock heroes to a Bee Gees tribute band for their next album.

As the Dee Gees, a nod to frontman Dave Grohl's initials, the band will release an LP including four Bee Gees covers.

Hail Satin will see the Foos take on the Gibb brothers' 1970s disco classics Night Fever, Tragedy, You Should Be Dancing and More Than a Woman.

It will be released on vinyl for US Record Store Day on 17 July.

June 18, 2021

Worst. Juneteenth Party. Ever.

YOU try finding a hat that fits a forehead with its own forehead 😳
https://twitter.com/rschooley/status/1405785051606896643?s=21

June 15, 2021

2017 - Team Clustertrump forgets to get rooms for G20 summit. Four Seasons booked up too.

Donald Trump 'has trouble finding hotel room at G20 summit'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-g20-summit-hamburg-hotel-room-germany-us-president-meetings-a7827166.html

Friday 07 July 2017

His team apparently waited too long to book accommodations for the President and his travelling staff and were told none of the major hotels had vacancies, Buzzfeed reported.

The local newspaper Hamburger Abendblatt reported that the Four Seasons had to turn him away as they were full.

In an ironic twist for the hotel chain owner, every luxury hotel in town seemed to be booked up. There do not appear to be any Trump-owned properties in the northern German city.

Buzzfeed did some digging and found that King Salman of Saudi Arabia and his massive entourage are staying at the Four Seasons as well two other high-end hotels.

June 15, 2021

Arizona "audit" looking for someone to read 50,000 Braille ballots - CNN

No link. Part of a report on air by Kyung Lah. She’s been there for weeks doing excellent reporting.

Apparently Cyber Ninja says they are near the end of this fraudit but they have 50,000 ballots in Braille. They need someone who can read Braille* which can’t be very hard to find seeing as how 50,000 people in Maricopa county voted using it. They’ve known about these ballots from the beginning , according to Lah, but they never got around to preparing to review them.

*I’m guessing regular Braille not contracted or UEB.

June 14, 2021

Good Morning Fox News viewers - LIES! It was ALL LIES! I tells ya!

I saw this flipping around the news this morning. Fox n Friends had a full team effort to tell their viewers how everything they saw happen didn’t happen - the segment chryon was “Media’s Big Mess”

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