kpete
kpete's JournalTiedrich - scathingly accurate as always.
it's lucky for Donald Trump that he's just a privileged white man openly confessing to past crimes and promising to commit more of them, and not, for example, a black man selling loose cigarettes on a street corner, because there are serious consequences for that.
https://twitter.com/itsJeffTiedrich/status/1488204345086722049?s=20&t=zTgpVHiBT_wwcpvBclVqnQ
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Joe Rogan (Cop-out) Apology - Millions of listeners and influence, and no diligence at all.
One of the things that is interesting to me in this statement from Rogan is that he states he does little preparation for his podcast conversations, and often has no idea what he is going to talk about with guests. Millions of listeners and influence, and no diligence at all.
https://www.instagram.com/tv/CZYQ_nDJi6G/?utm_medium=share_sheet
https://twitter.com/justinhendrix/status/1488149585981812738?s=20&t=KbzC-ZU5Cevs-D-uAQlTyw
They can't even spell "Brandon" correctly
FLORIDA: DISGUSTING: As thousands of Jews spend midwinter weekend in Orlando, FL, a gang of neo-Nazis stood at a road, holding swastika flags, cursing, shouting "Heil Hitler" and "Jews will not replace us."
https://twitter.com/BadJewishBoy/status/1488027600068952064?s=20&t=AMrStSIScRH8I4Lv-icRPA
https://twitter.com/micheleforfl/status/1487940937418526723?s=20&t=AMrStSIScRH8I4Lv-icRPA
Liz Cheney: "He'd do it all again if given the chance."
Trump uses language he knows caused the Jan 6 violence; suggests he’d pardon the Jan 6 defendants, some of whom have been charged with seditious conspiracy; threatens prosecutors; and admits he was attempting to overturn the election.
https://twitter.com/Liz_Cheney/status/1488114406651219970?s=20&t=byitakzNhOjbp7t0RkXZ9Q
"Hitler pledges to rule sanely...to govern constitutionally...to steer clear of anti-Semitism"-1933
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1487603562699968521?s=20&t=TmIDafzoZvaq20--7p5LBQ
Full of Shit-Trump could have pardoned at least a 100, maybe even all, of the Capitol riot suspects
........Trump had the ability to pardon maybe about a hundred Capitol rioters known to law enforcement and very likely could have preemptively pardoned all of them before they were identified. Would a total blanket pardon have survived a challenge from the Biden Administration? Probably not, but it would have been an unparalleled years-long clusterfuck to try to reverse it, putting courts into completely uncharted territory and likely ultimately constraining presidential pardon powers if it were successful.
However the true bottom line is that Trump didn't even try to issue a preemptive blanket pardon to all those who were eventually charged with committing crimes at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, much less the 58 who had been charged or the few dozen to a hundred or so that had been identified and were sought by the FBI, a smaller group whose reprieve would have been on much more solid ground. The Orange Satan can make all the pledges he wants when he's screaming at bunch of rednecks and not follow through, however this is one where his track record very unambiguously says he's full of shit. He had the chance to walk the walk and he didn't even try, even with at least two of them actually directly asking for his help.
Or, as Proud Boy captain Ethan Nordean put it in a message to his fellow fascist gangbangers on Inauguration Day in 2021, per court documents in his federal conspiracy case: "FUCK TRUMP! Fuck him more than Biden. I've followed this guy for 4 years and given everything and lost it all. Yes he woke us up, but he led us to believe some great justice was upon us… and it never happened, now I've got some of my good friends and myself facing jail time cuz we followed this guys lead and never questioned it. We are now and always have been on our own. so glad he was able to pardon a bunch of degenerates as his last move and shit on us on the way out"
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MORE:
https://nationalzero.com/2022/01/30/reminder-trump-could-have-pardoned-at-least-a-hundred-maybe-all-of-the-capitol-riot-suspects-before-he-left-office-and-didnt/
Neil Young Almost Died Of Polio As A Kid
The polio vaccine was first widely disseminated in 1955, and Young was one of the beneficiaries. As he recently wrote on his website, “I was vaccinated for POLIO at my school in Canada. Nothing new about vaccines. They have been there for a long time. Like me! Trust Science.”
https://consequence.net/2022/01/neil-young-polio-battle-covid-disinformation/
Top Weapons Companies Boast Ukraine-Russia Tensions Are a Boon for Business
In calls with investors, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin boasted that the worsening conflict is helping profits.As the United States weighs more involvement in the growing conflict between Ukraine and Russia, some of the largest weapons companies in the world?—?Raytheon and Lockheed Martin?—?are openly telling their investors that tensions between the countries are good for business. And General Dynamics, meanwhile, is boasting about the past returns the company has seen as a result of such disputes.
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If it sounds like Hayes is using mounting tensions as an advertising opportunity for his company, this may not be far fetched. On a January 25 earnings call (which was noted on Twitter by Nick Cleveland-Stout of the Quincy Institute), Hayes included “tensions in Eastern Europe” among the factors that Raytheon stands to benefit from. He said: “We just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the UAE, which have attacked some of their other facilities. And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit from it.”
Raytheon isn’t alone in its projections. Among those noting the likely boost to profits is Jim Taiclet, the chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin. In a January 25 earnings call, he told investors, “If you look at the evolving threat level and the approach that some countries are taking, including North Korea, Iran and through some of its proxies in Yemen and elsewhere, and especially Russia today, these days, and China, there’s renewed great power competition that does include national defense and threats to it.”
This “great power competition,” he suggested to investors, bodes more business for the company. Taiclet says, “And the history of the United States is when those environments evolve, that we do not sit by and just watch it happen. So I can’t talk to a number, but I do think, and I’m concerned personally that the threat is advancing, and we need to be able to meet it.”
https://inthesetimes.com/article/ukraine-russia-raytheon-lockheed-martin-general-dynamics-weapons-industry
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