Jirel
Jirel's JournalThe party must change its ways.
A little while ago, Kamala Harris posted
Thanks to Senate Republicans, 17 million people will lose their health care.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, rural hospitals will close.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, three million Americans, including veterans and seniors, will lose food assistance.
Thanks to Senate Republicans, families will see their energy bills go up by $400 a year.
Senate Republicans are doing all of this and more — hurting working people across our nation — in order to pay for $1 trillion in tax cuts for billionaires.
There is still time to stop this bill before it passes in the House. Call 202-224-3121 and tell your representative to vote no.
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19MJVm3SML/?
Ok. Thanks for the sentiment, and the very tardy call to action after the Senate already screwed America. However:
- Where were the political posts from every Dem senator and congressperson urging a common course of political action coordinated by them/the party for all readers?
- Where was that vaunted ActBlue machine, which could have been used to mobilize (without asking for money) the Democratic base for not just days, but weeks? I can tell you that I’ve received more fundraising spam texts today, business as usual, but no urgent messages, and no calls to action…
- Where have the Dem “emeritus” politicians been, when they could have been organizing everything from phone calling to faxing to Capitol Hill visits to street actions? Gee, I see Bill Clinton came out to endorse disgraced Cuomo, but action organizing? Crickets.
This is why people have lost faith in the party. Our politicians could be real leaders, organizing on their massive soapboxes. We only see that from a handful, like AOC, Warren, Sanders (oops, not even a Dem). Instead, it’s just business as usual.
Folks, it must change. There will be no blue wave at the midterms unless the party and Dem leadership gets is collective backside out in the streets to truly organize and do damage to fascism.
Epoch Times CFO Bill Guan charged in alleged $67 million global money laundering scheme
Source: MSNBC
The chief financial officer of conservative global news outlet The Epoch Times has been arrested and charged with leading a yearslong scheme to launder at least $67 million in illicit funds, federal prosecutors said Monday.
The “sprawling” scheme — which involved cryptocurrency, tens of thousands of prepaid debit cards, fraudulently obtained unemployment insurance benefits and stolen personal information — fueled a massive increase in The Epoch Times’ reported annual revenue, prosecutors alleged.
Weidong “Bill” Guan, 61, is charged in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering and two counts of bank fraud.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/epoch-cfo-bill-guan-charged-alleged-67-million-global-money-laundering-rcna155321
We can only hope the rest of the staff will soon be charged on related crimes.
Happy Indictmas!
Breaking on NBC.
X10
Edit: first article:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-georgia-indictment-rcna98900
Happy Pride Month, Candace Owens!
For those who enjoy just a bit more schadenfreude with their morning coffee, Candace Owens just got partially demonetized by YouTube for her anti-trans videos. YouTube had previously said that misgendering did not violate its community guidelines, but it has now changed its tune.
YouTube does not publicly list any policy on misgendering but said in a statement that it considers deliberate misgendering as potentially violative of its monetization policy on hateful conduct.
On the Candace Owens Podcast channel Monday, Owens said YouTube gave her “an option to delete every video that I’ve ever done pertaining to gender in which I have accurately gendered someone” — referring to instances in which she’s used pronouns not preferred by trans individuals. Videos in which Owens misgendered individuals were considered “hateful conduct” by YouTube, according to Owens in a segment in the episode titled ‘I Have An Announcement To Make.’
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/candace-owens-youtube-gender-pronouns-video-trans-announcement-rcna88175
Is Ron DeSantis a war criminal?
A former Guantanamo prisoner has fingered DeSantis as having watched his torture while DeSantis was stationed there for a year as a member of Navy JAG. His supervisor noted that DeSantis' duties required interacting with detainees and hearing their complaints and resolving them in accordance with US law. DeSantis enlisted in the Navy in 2004 specifically because he wanted to take part in Guantanamo prosecutions.
Mr DeSantis was stationed on the base between March 2006 and January 2007, according to his military records.
An investigation by The Independent details the following claims:
Two prisoners held at the camp at the time Mr DeSantis was stationed there claim he witnessed the forced-feeding of hunger-striking prisoners.
Mr Adayfi claims that Mr DeSantis had initially told him he was there for the detainees’ welfare.
Mr DeSantis was stationed at Guantanamo during a year marked by riots, hunger strikes and death.
Part of his role was to field concerns and complaints from prisoners.
Mr DeSantis emerged from his time at Guantanamo as an advocate for its continued use, and against the release of detainees.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ron-desantis-guantanamo-torture-prisoner-b2300753.html
Head Games For Halloween.
We tend to have a lot of trick or treaters compared to a lot of places these days. They tend to come in two waves, the white suburbanites for whom their own exurb/suburb feels too “scary” so they pack the kids into a minivan and take them into our rural neighborhood, and later on the local kids, mostly Latinx. This year I decided to find out if the lure of candy would trump naziism, so I added a Vote Blue sign on the fence right next to the front walk. Yes indeed, there were some screeching tires as the local cosplaytriots hugged their kids close and took them to a less terrifying part of town. In all, we’re down 50% or more from usual.
Conservative asshurt is my love language.
An (im?)modest proposal for resistance.
A friend’s righteous rant sparked this as a point of organizing resistance:
Revoke (or do not sign) organ donor cards, and instruct next of kin/medical POAs to not donate your organs after death.
(I hear the cries of knee-jerk outrage already.) Look, it’s simple. Women are going to die because of these abortion bans. Do not let their organs be harvested to save their murderers. Women will suffer, become disabled, lose their livelihoods, lose their opportunities for education or a career, or die because abortions are denied them, when they are unable to access abortion care hundreds of miles away. Ok, then, I guess organ transplantation should require medical tourism as well.
Nothing in this scheme says that a person should not live-donate a kidney, etc. to a person they know and trust. It just means that women and their allies are drying up the flow of organs to strangers who may be their oppressors. It means that women and their allies are taking back control over their bodies. Will people die? Yes. That’s the point. What, did you think this war wasn’t going to have casualties? Besides the piled corpses of pregnant women? Decisions have consequences, and it is time for women to be fighting back ruthlessly.
After all, nobody is interested in even ending the filibuster for us, or expanding SCOTUS for us. Why, exactly, should we continue business as usual?
Who knows anything about PacToTheFuture?
I have been receiving spam from them. Are they for real? If so, they are the slimiest, worst-managed Dem PAC that I have ever encountered.
1) Emails read like clickbait that 17 year olds wrote for InfoWars.
2) You can't opt out.
3) Their contact email doesn't work - it bounces.
4) There is virtually no useful information on their website that would help determine whether this is a travesty of a Dem PAC, or right wing trolls.
(For reference, it's www.pactothefuture.org)
Because we all need a laugh, 13 curses to mutter against Ted Cruz while you boil snow to drink.
1. May you wait in line outside the only open grocery store for four hours only to find that there is no food left, save a Pop-Tart that slipped under some shelving. May the Pop-Tart be the weird cherry flavor. May you buy it, cut it into quadrants, and eat it over two days.
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3. May you record yourself making a snow angel for the first time in your life only to realize that you’re lying on your neighbor’s dog’s frozen deposits. –Forrest Wilder
4. May snow slip off an overhang as you pass underneath it, nailing you right on your noggin while you’re heading outside to pee.
5. May you make direct eye contact with your neighbor during your yard pee.
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The rest at:
https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/13-curses-to-mutter-against-ted-cruz-while-you-boil-snow-to-drink/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Web%20Social&utm_content=TedCruz13CursesSnowBoil&fbclid=IwAR2iHdmFdtKrBzBmkV4pyXAqcD-VRR5XopC6hZqIMjnM20ANgopYfAq36As]
Of course. It's 2020. Why WOULDN'T some mystery disease crop up?
So now there's a mystery disease in India, with 300 people hospitalized. Headaches, seizures, nausea, passing out - fabulous. Might be the water, but they can't find any contaminants. They don't *think* it's a virus...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2020/12/07/over-300-people-hospitalized-with-mysterious-illness-in-india-one-dead/?sh=6ac296514f2f
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