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Initech

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December 6, 2022

Mike Lindell is endorsing and enabling terrorism on his channel.

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1599945560215035906

So yeah cut the power to an entire city because it's what your "religion" dictates and that you've been fed nothing but hate, lies and slander. It's insane that the GOP is now enabling religious terrorism, the very thing we were once convinced that we had to declare a very long and costly war against. Fuck all of them.
December 4, 2022

Going full Nazi is bad for business.

Kanye - went full Nazi - lost billions in endorsement deals and the bid to buy Parler

Elon Musk - went full Nazi - is losing billions with the Twitter deal, Tesla board members are questioning his sanity

Trump - went full Nazi - lost the 2020 election.

Gee, it’s almost a sign that Nazis and white supremacists are bad people.

Bottom line: don’t go full Nazi. Never, ever go full Nazi.

December 1, 2022

Well... it looks like Ye and the Infowars wing of the GOP are going full Hitler.

(I know it's a tweet but couldn't find any other source)

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1598369950044921857

Fuck Ye, fuck Alex Jones, fuck Nick Fuentes. Fuck 'em all.

November 30, 2022

Over 1 million people in US have been killed by firearms over past 30 years, data shows

Gun-related deaths in the United States are the highest they have ever been in nearly 30 years, new research shows.

The findings of a new study published in JAMA Network Open on Tuesday show that 1,110,421 people have been killed both intentionally and accidentally by a firearm between 1990 and 2021.

“That is roughly the number of people who have died from COVID in the last couple of years,” said Boston Children’s Hospital doctor Eric Fleegler, one of the authors of the study. 

Findings show that firearm deaths reached a low in 2004 of about 10 for every 100,000 people in the U.S.

But that rate began to climb back up in 2010, eventually increasing by 45.5 percent to 14.7 firearm deaths per 100,000 people in 2021.

The study’s findings show that there was an “incredible leap” in gun-related deaths during the first two years of the pandemic. In 2020 and 2021 there was a 25 percent increase in firearm deaths in the United States, a number that Fleegler said “almost defied imagination.”
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/campaigns/3754611-over-1-million-people-in-us-have-been-killed-by-firearms-over-past-30-years-data-show/


Some pretty alarming facts in this article. How many more people have to die before we start calling it a genocide?
November 28, 2022

New Metallica just dropped!



Sounds a lot like the Metallica I grew up with! Definitely going to catch a show at SoFi when they come here!
November 28, 2022

I think I have an easy solution to get right wing conspiracy theorists to shut up.

And that solution is: ID check at the door for city council, municipal government (includes voter certification), and school board meetings. You're not a resident? You don't get to participate in the discussion. That's it. That's all it would take. Anyone not from the area looking to start shit? You're shown the door.

This needs to happen now. Especially in Arizona. Over half the people arguing for Kari Lake aren't even from Arizona. I'm tired of playing nice with these shitheads.

November 28, 2022

Cochise County (Arizona) Board of Supervisors vote to postpone vote certification

In a special session of the Cochise County Board of Supervisors Monday morning, the three-person board voted to postpone certifying the election until the end of the week.

The motion on the floor was to table the certification vote for the remainder of the week—until Friday, Dec. 2. The state canvass of the general election takes place on Monday, Dec. 5.

Supervisor Ann English (D2) was the sole 'no' vote on the board, making the argument against postponing the vote certification further. Supervisors Tom Crosby, (D1) and Peggy Judd (D3) voted for postponing the vote.
https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/cochise-county-board-of-supervisors-vote-to-postpone-vote-certification


Here we go. Fuck you Kari!!!!
November 23, 2022

And here's newly elected Wyoming Congresswoman Harriet Hageman appearing at an America First Event:

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1595197280575012864

As if we needed any further evidence Liz Cheney's removal was a political hit job. Also, who goes to shit like this?
November 22, 2022

Can we please stop using the word "breaking" for every minute piece of news that comes out?

Seriously I feel like it's the most overused word in the English language at this point. The only thing that's going to be "breaking" is my monitor when I see another headline with the word "breaking" in it. I wish we could do to the word "breaking" what Lewis Black did to the CNN scroll bar.

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