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Roland99

Roland99's Journal
Roland99's Journal
March 21, 2023

Breaking: All NYPD officers - including plainclothes detectives have been ordered to wear full uni

https://twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1637953709240987650
All NYPD officers — including plainclothes detectives — have been ordered to wear their full uniform tomorrow beginning at 7am ahead of a possible indictment of former President Donald Trump, a police source tells
@CBSNews

@PatMilton14
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March 20, 2023

Top GOPer on House Finance Committee got him some "woke" donations from Signature Bank!

Signature Bank Threw a Fundraiser for the Congressman Now Probing How It Failed
GOP’s McHenry chairs the House Financial Services Committee
Campaign says donations from event won’t be processed
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-20/signature-threw-a-fundraiser-for-mchenry-just-before-it-crumbled

McHenry is chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, which has announced a bipartisan hearing into the collapse of Signature and Silicon Valley Bank next week, “the first of multiple.” On Monday, McHenry and Senator Tim Scott, the top Republican on the Banking Committee, demanded the Federal Reserve and FDIC provide information on their oversight of the two failed banks for the last two years and save all records.

McHenry has been the bank’s favorite member of Congress since 2017. Signature’s employees have given him a little more than $188,000, almost triple the $66,000 they’ve given to Minnesota’s Tina Smith, a Democratic member of the Senate Banking Committee who has received the second highest amount from them.

Among current members of Congress, Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer was next with $45,000. All other Republican candidates got a little more than $41,000 in total from Signature’s employees over the same period, a Bloomberg analysis of Federal Election Commission records shows. Overall, Democrats took in $284,000 from Signature employees, about $53,000 more than Republicans.

The bank’s board enjoyed connections to both parties. Barney Frank, who was co-author of the Dodd-Frank Act after the 2008 crisis, joined the bank’s board after the Massachusetts Democrat left Congress in 2013. Ivanka Trump was a director, too.


Oh the corruption...how deep you run,
March 20, 2023

Fox News Tries to Silence a Top Producer Threatening to Reveal Internal Convos

The network is taking a key producer for Tucker and Bartiromo to stop her from disclosing privileged internal chatter as part of her own threats to sue for discrimination.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-tries-to-silence-top-producer-abby-grossberg-who-threatened-to-reveal-internal-convos

Fox News is now taking legal action against one of its top producers in an effort to silence her amid the ongoing Dominion lawsuit.

In a Monday complaint filed in the Supreme Court of New York, Fox News alleged that Abby Grossberg, a senior booking producer for Tucker Carlson, has threatened the network with a discrimination lawsuit and, in doing so, has threatened to publicly disclose privileged conversations she had with Fox News lawyers in advance of her own September 2022 deposition in the Dominion defamation case.

Grossberg’s threats, the network wrote, have forced Fox to seek a court order silencing her.

The top producer worked on Maria Bartiromo’s weekend show during the 2020 election and was among those who received the “wackadoodle” memo from “Kraken” lawyer Sidney Powell, written by a self-described “ghost” woman, that served as the basis for some of the baseless election-fraud claims Fox News aired.


Keep raining...keep on raining on Faux!
March 20, 2023

"I'm So Indicted" (apologies to the Pointer Sisters) EDIT: Now with 100% more meme

I'm so indicted, and Q can't hide it
My cult is gonna lose control and I think I like it
I'm so indicted, and I just can't hide it
And I'm feeling low, I know, so give me all of your dough


March 19, 2023

US Christian group (ICOC) accused of covering up sexual abuse of minors

US Christian group accused of covering up sexual abuse of minors
Lawsuits claim International Churches of Christ leaders failed to report as well as plotted to conceal abuse of women and children

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/19/international-churches-of-christ-lawsuits-alleged-sexual-abuse



“What happened to your girls isn’t that big of a deal,” a church elder allegedly told a mother of two young girls who were sexually assaulted on church grounds, according to a February filing. “Most girls have been molested by the time they reach 18.”

Five women filed a complaint in December that said the ICOC failed to stop convicted pedophile and church member David Saracino from sexually assaulting them when they were between the ages of four and 17.



Anyone else surprised?
March 18, 2023

Assuming no widespread violence/protests or coup-ing....

Think that would deflate traitor trump’s ego and eventually he’d slink away?

March 18, 2023

Anyone still with a perfect March Madness bracket...

Get to Vegas. Now!

Buy powerball tickets!

March 17, 2023

OMG! China is providing weapons to ... China!!

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1636539670627508231
Kellyanne: People should know the news today. The White House won't tell them. It was revealed that China is sending body armor and other weapons of war to China


cuckoo. cuckoo. cuckoo.

Maybe she’s a few boxes in with Judge Jeanine
March 15, 2023

Thread on Biden re: Willow drilling (Biden had no leverage re Willow. Lease was signed decades ago)

https://twitter.com/DemsInArray/status/1635819904862388226

Biden had no leverage re Willow. Lease was signed decades ago; courts overturned drill bans.

He could have challenged in court and delayed it 6mos, or he could negotiate and make it less bad.

He made it a LOT less bad.

You’re not an environmentalist if you’re mad about that.


Link below detailing how Biden slashed Willow by 40% while permanently protecting sensitive land.

All this on top of passing IRA and Infrastructure, representing the largest climate investment in world history.

This is an environmentalist president.

Interior Department Substantially Reduces Scope of Willow Project
Drill Pads Reduced by 40%; ConocoPhillips to Relinquish Rights to 68,000 Acres of Existing Leases
https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-substantially-reduces-scope-willow-project


From that DOI link
The Department is substantially reducing the size of the project by denying two of the five drill sites proposed by ConocoPhillips, which is seeking to develop oil and gas leases it acquired beginning in the late 1990s. The company will also relinquish rights to approximately 68,000 acres of its existing leases in the NPR-A, including approximately 60,000 acres in the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area.

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