I keep telling people, Trump pissed off the old money in Georgia by putting the biggest possible spotlight on the states election systems which are corrupt as all hell. And they are a spiteful group of fuckers that really hate when someone gets “uppity”. Fuck all of them too but they are not the type of people you want to fuck over and that’s how they see that “perfect phone call”
Alright so to start off my credentials are that I was born and lived in Georgia for nearly 40 years before wising up and getting the hell out despite loving Atlanta and the surrounding area very much
The whole state is corrupt as shit, I think we all remember how the current governor Brian Kemp was allowed to oversee his own election results against Stacy Abrams in 2018. Well that shit is the tip of the iceberg in GA, the state makes Chicago and Louisiana look on the up and up by comparison, but the people who are corrupt and in control in Georgia(see Augusta) are much shrewder than other corrupt state and local governments. They like things to appear “proper” even if they aren’t, these are the people that own Augusta National and put on the Masters. Anything that might threaten that “propriety” is seen and treated as an existential threat.
I’m certain that all of these old rich racist fucks voted for Trump in 2020 and wish he had won because that gave them more leeway to be assholes and get even more rich. But he stepped out of line with that phone call and put himself above the grift. Old money in the south plays the long game, they know they won’t win every battle, and if they thought Trump winning was imperative to their goals he would have gotten the votes he asked for without him asking. But since he did ask/threaten they’re going to nail him to the wall
All that text to say Trump forgot his place to the bunch of old, petty, rich assholes and they don’t take kindly to that kind of thing.
Great write-up. For someone on the other side of the pond the internal state politics are rather hard to follow.
It makes sense now, as I could not really parse the sudden tien around in Georgian backing. Them dropping Trump seemed it off character.
Good that they did, though it’s an enemy of my enemy sort of thing, but I’m happy someone called a limit to his bullshit, albeit for almost the opposite reason.
And yeah I want to be very clear that these are not our friends, I’m glad Trump pissed in their cornflakes because they are effective at extracting retribution but ultimately they need to go too
I also sort of love how lawyers keep taking these cases, like it's somehow not the legal equivalent of a fly deliberately walking into a Venus fly trap.
Nah, <NewLawyerName>, you got this. All the rest of those lawyers were never as smart as you! /s
I like the saying that MAGA stands for Make Attorneys Get Attorneys. No wonder lawyers eject. More than a few have joined the defendants. Work with criminals and sometimes it rubs off on you.
I like the quote "You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with“. The longer I'm around, the more true it seems to be.
We don't always get to choose who those 5 people are, unfortunately. But when we can we need to choose carefully who we want to be more like and how we are influenced. Avoiding bad influences would be pretty hard while working in the justice system.
Sidney Powell and Rudy Giuliani definitely both chose poorly. I wonder how shitty they were as people beforehand though. Maybe they just found their soul-mates/cell-mates.
I believe a primary driver of this is the enormous commercial real estate bubble that is going to destroy the economy and is looking very large right now. That and of course greed.
This argument never made sense to me. Why would greedy companies voluntarily pay for something they don’t need just to support some “greater good” of keeping the economy afloat? It means reduced profits yet the “contribution” of each individual company is just drop in the bucket.
It doesn’t make sense because it’s some conspiracy theory level bullshit. It would imply that big CEOs or board members either:
Possess a big percentage of the current real estate properties (and I mean, huge, like 50%)
Big part of their assets are in real estate (again, more than 30%)
And, that of course, they are all colluding. Meaning, there is a kind of Illuminati kind of society of all the CEOs that get together with pie charts and excels to see how to maximize their profits.
It’s a delusion that people with a low grasp of reality are using to cope with the fact that:
Economy is shit
There are people that, because of connection and money, are unscathed by the economic shitinnes we live in
Because the economy is shit, companies are grasping to get out of red numbers
Because we have had mediocre to sheerly bad managers in almost every industry for most of the last three decades thanks to some economic bonanzas, the only way they see they can improve the margins is by doing stupid things like back to office
I like Hanlon’s razor for these cases: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. I this, I feel, is indeed that.
It varies company to company. An old company I worked at we got a tax break for how many employees we had in the office. (Pre-Covid)the idea was to encourage us to move employees from other officers into the downtown office.
If everyone is working remotely, you don’t get those tax benefits.
The main reason I’ve seen is habit. We have been going to an office for a long time and it’s about control. They want to watch their workers.
Now what interesting is people are suing because they’re working from home. It’s increased their cost and they want the employer to pay it.
Ronnie and Terry Urbanczyk’s were paid 25 million to turn their land into a state park, instead of 125 million to turn it into a bunch of residential properties.
So they rejected big millions off still quite big millions. Also the surrounding community opposed the original deal.
Humans have changed something like 70% of the earth for housing, business , etc. Yeah, Texas is growing, yeah people need places to live. But we’re not the only species that needs room to live either.
The “expert” quoted was an unidentified Reddit user! Nowhere in the article was it stated what was being taught. This isn’t an article for information, it’s just an attempt to fan the flames of division.
Not saying I agree or not with what’s happening in (surprise) Florida. Just saying nothing in this article provides for discussion or critical thinking about the topic.
“It’s evil more than it is stupid,” said a Reddit user discussing the Guardian article, while another lamented the forces enabling this and anti-environmental policy planning like Project 2025 as “doing the bidding of oil companies.”
Read the three lines right above that quote. Those are the experts.
Adrienne McCarthy, a researcher at Kansas State University, told the Guardian why this is particularly troubling.
“It’s propaganda 101,” she said. “Equating people concerned about climate change with Nazis can have long-term impacts on young, impressionable people. The beliefs PragerU are pushing forward overlap with far-right extremist beliefs. The fear is that they will bring this sort of extremist beliefs into mainstream society.”
In a piece for Mother Jones, principal climate scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists Kristina Dahl annotated the transcript of one of these videos, demonstrating how the visuals and script are trying to convince the viewer to ignore the findings of scientific research.
The title of the article Experts sound alarm over concerning ‘propaganda’ found in public school curriculum: ‘It’s evil more than it is stupid’ is suggesting the quoted are the experts. They are not, they were an unnamed Reddit.
What McCarthy stated may be true, but it doesn’t share what was being taught to kids so that you and I could assess if, in fact, she is right. She should have been referring to some other material created by the same author, though not taught. What was actually included in the curriculum was not shared in this article. No opportunity for you and I to have our own actual opinion on the topic. That’s not news, that’s propaganda.
The article does explain what is being taught to students.
The Florida Department of Education has approved screening videos that deny the Earth’s changing climate to schoolchildren in the state, according to the Guardian.
The videos approved to be shown to children from kindergarten to fifth grade feature characters who question several sustainable actions, such as moving away from dirty energy sources, switching to renewable energy, and reducing reliance on plastics.
Now, videos featuring climate-denial talking points could be shown to children as young as five years old.
If you want to complain about the toxicity of sensational headlines, I don’t think many people would disagree. But it’s two posts in a row you’ve claimed untrue things about the article without having clearly read and digested it. Maybe you should consider why you’re so quick to assume it’s “propaganda” and rush to prove yourself correct.
Wow, you can even see the graffiti in that exact spot in the street view! Right on the rail, you know, where the side wheels go. Never thought I’d need to add “concrete rails create a flat surface attractive nuisance for graffiti” in the monorail “con” list.
…audio from Trump advisor, Steve Bannon, surfaced from October 31st, 2020, just a few days before the Presidential election.
Let’s listen. [Begin Videotape]
STEVE BANNON: And what Trump’s going to do is declare victory, right? He’s going to declare victory, but that doesn’t mean he’s a winner. He’s just gonna say he’s a winner. The Democrats — more of our people vote early that count. Theirs vote in mail. And so they’re going to have a natural disadvantage and Trump’s going to take advantage — that’s our strategy.
He’s gonna declare himself a winner. So when you wake up Wednesday morning, it’s going to be a firestorm. Also — also if Trump is — if Trump is losing by 10 or 11:00 at night, it’s going to be even crazier. Because he’s gonna sit right there and say they stole it. If Biden’s wining, Trump is going to do some crazy shit.
According to the United States Constitution, Article III, Section 3, “Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”
Furthermore, 18 U.S.C § 2381, states that a person guilty of treason against the United States “shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.”
It's wild to me that according to our laws so many of these "law and order" Republicans should be either executed or behind bars, yet walk free and unscathed.
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