That’s some obscure right wing influencer but I think his comment is a good example of the incoherence of the current wingnut worldview. In an earlier tweet he says this: It’s possible that he’s agitating for war with Mexico. That’s a growing desire on the right: Yes, she says “cartels” but even Desantis says that we need to withdraw support for Ukraine because we need our weapons for the border. I don’t know how else you can interpret what these people are saying. Let’s face it, they don’t want any part of defending against Russian aggression because Russia is a white, anti-gay, Christian nationalist authoritarian state — their dream. But that doesn’t make them anti-war. They are violent people who want to wage war against non-white people only. And they are itching to wage war, whether it’s against China or Mexico or right here at home. People like Marjorie Taylor Green or Donald Trump are not pacifists, fergawdsakes. I mean, come on… As for training American schoolkids in the classroom to handle semi-automatic weapons, I would guess that’s on the agenda too.
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The knives are out and it’s getting ugly. And it’s not just coming from Trump: At any given fundraiser or VIP room where he’s present, Ron DeSantis is usually easy to find—in the corner, keeping to himself. Despite having a job that entails exchanging small talk and pleasantries on a daily basis, the Florida governor tends to brush off those obligations and struggles with basic social skills, according to a source close to DeSantis, several of his former staffers, and other GOP operatives who have worked with him and his team. As DeSantis gears up for a potential White House run in 2024, his aloof public persona is being thought of by his rivals—namely, former President Donald Trump—as his Achilles heel in the retail politics-heavy early primary states. And even though he hasn’t announced a bid yet, DeSantis’ apparent desire to test the waters of a presidential campaign—while barely dipping a toe into the aspects he recoils from—is already being put to the test.
This piece by Zach Carter on the SVB crisis is the best I’ve seen. (Carter published the great biography of John Maynard Keynes last year. If you haven’t read it, it’s excellent.) The most important bank in Silicon Valley failed on Friday, prompting a Sunday night bailout for some of the wealthiest people in the world as the Federal Reserve opened a new emergency lending program hoping to prevent the crisis in California from triggering a nationwide banking collapse. As with any financial crash, it’s impossible to predict where exactly the money will flow next, but it’s clear that the tech sector that reshaped American business and culture in the 21st century is coming apart. The nexus of this breakdown is Silicon Valley Bank, a firm with $209 billion in assets as of December 31, 2022. SVB works hand-in-glove with venture capital firms, tech start-ups, and a lot of very rich people in California, claiming nearly half of all VC-backed tech companies and over 2,500 VCs as its clients.
I thought for sure he was going to say that America’s greatest threat comes from China. But no. He says “the greatest threat to western civilization is ourselves and some of the USA hating people that represent us.” That man wants to be president again.
More self-serving outrage from the GOP Without getting overly wonky here, I’ve studied the Electronic Registration Information Centers (ERIC) efforts at voter roll maintenance for several years. Multiple red states in recent weeks have exited the ERIC network. The consortium of over two dozen states (it was over 30) share voter registration data in a coordinated effort to eliminate multi-state registrants, to identify registrants who have moved within and between states, to identify those who have died, and to identify people who vote in more than one state in an election. There seem to be quite a few of the last group in Florida, one of several red states that exited ERIC last week. Readers who remember Kansas’ Kris Kobach’s defunct Interstate Crosscheck system and its history of bad data matching, take note. Originally a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts, ERIC is what Interstate Crosscheck purported to be and was not. Kobach’s real project was not election integrity but promoting the notion that voter fraud was widespread and photo IDs necessary to combating the phantom menace. Republicans loved it.
That was this morning, not 2020.. It’s been well documented that Hydroxychloraquine is useless against COVID, Ivermectin as well. There was just another study on the latter a couple of weeks ago. And then there’s this: Just before 7 am on March 3, Danny Lemoi posted an update in his hugely popular pro-ivermectin Telegram group, Dirt Road Discussions: “HAPPY FRIDAY ALL YOU POISONOUS HORSE PASTE EATING SURVIVORS !!!” Hours later, Lemoi was dead. For the last decade, Lemoi had taken a daily dose of veterinary ivermectin, a dewormer designed to be used on large animals like horses and cows. In 2021, as ivermectin became a popular alternative COVID-19 treatment among anti-vaxxers, he launched what became one of the largest Telegram channels dedicated to promoting the use of it, including instructions on how to administer ivermectin to children.
A nation of Scrooges Matthew Desmond, a sociologist at Princeton, is the author of “Poverty, by America” and “Evicted” recalls that when abroad he’s heard heard the phrase “American-style deprivation” on several occasions. “Anyone who has visited [peer] countries can plainly see the difference, can experience what it might be like to live in a country without widespread public decay.” “The United States has a poverty problem,” Desmond explains. It is a tragedy and a national shame (New York Times): A third of the country’s people live in households making less than $55,000. Many are not officially counted among the poor, but there is plenty of economic hardship above the poverty line. And plenty far below it as well. According to the Supplemental Poverty Measure, which accounts for government aid and living expenses, more than one in 25 people in America 65 or older lived in deep poverty in 2021, meaning that they’d have to at minimum double their incomes just to reach the poverty line.
The first senior British Royal to ever enter the witness box in the High Court will allege Piers Morgan oversaw a conspiracy of newsroom criminality at the Daily Mirror, reveals Dan Evans
New Polling from Quinnipiac: In an early look at the 2024 Republican presidential primary, 46 percent of Republican and Republican leaning voters support former President Donald Trump, who has declared his candidacy, and 32 percent support Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seen as a potential candidate, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea- ack) University national poll released today. Former United Nations Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley receives 5 percent. Of the remaining 12 listed declared or potential candidates, no one tops 3 percent of the vote. Trump has widened his lead over DeSantis. In Quinnipiac University’s February poll, Trump led DeSantis 42 – 36 percent. In a head-to-head Republican primary matchup between the two leading Republican candidates, Trump receives 51 percent support and DeSantis receives 40 percent support. Too many people seem to think that Trump is a totally spent force. But the truth is that he’s weakened for sure. But he’s far from being out of the game. This has happened since Trump came on the scene in 2015.
Maybe Ivermectin will cure it? Okay, wokesters, remember when teens tossed out “like” every other word? Adults lampooned this verbal pandemic decades before COVID-19. The legendary Frank Zappa’s only top-40 hit came in 1982 with a largely spoken-word Valspeak performance by his then-14-year-old daughter, Moon Zappa. Valspeak launched Whoopi Goldberg’s acting career. Wikipedia: Linguistic characteristics of valleyspeak are often thought to be “silly” and “superficial” and seen as a sign of low intelligence. Speakers are also often perceived as “materialistic” and “air-headed”. And your point is? Conservatives don’t have one, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes observed Tuesday evening. Wokety-woke rhetoric aimed at blaming women, gay people, and minorities for conservatives’ comically pervasive sense of victimization is “equal parts offensive and preposterous” and not meant to persuade anyone, but to keep their base in line, Hayes said. They are not being serious. Their aim is deflection.