Something rather stunning occurred during the course of this August 3rd edition of “The Breakdown” with Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson and Tara Setmayer @TaraSetmayer
A very, VERY senior member of the Trump administration — whom Rick Wilson agreed not to identify — sent a message directly to Wilson. Rick shared the message with the audience of the show, never revealing the identity of the sender. The message was as follows: “I regret serving in his administration more than anything I’ve ever done in my life. Keep going. You’re patriots. Don’t quit.”
After reading the message to the Breakdown audience, Wilson ended the brief segment with a few choice words of his own: “And if you knew who that was, your f*cking eyes would pop out.”
Please watch this fascinating edition of “The Breakdown.” You’ll find the link in the thread below:
So they want POC to write an essay tying their experience of race to a unique quality or character development. Sounds like respectability politics to me.
Require the essay for every applicant. Watch the white students struggle for words. Encourage self-refection.
@JohnathanPerk It’s almost as if we were on a run away train back to 1776. Exactly the point. Happy 4th of July.
Nice guys finish flattened by the bulldozer. We’re up against psychopaths.
We need a better plan.
@Tully5452@CalltoActivism Color blind always means “there is only one color…white.” Pretty ironic because white is literally the combination of all the colors in the rainbow.
Clarence Thomas.
You just voted to gut affirmative action and student loan forgiveness.
Let’s take a look how you got into Yale, shall we?
During your 58-page concurring opinion, you wrote that the foundational policies of affirmative action "fly in the face of our colorblind Constitution and our Nation's equality ideal.”
But Justice Thomas, we did a little digging and it turns out that Yale university followed an affirmative action policy at the time you attended its law school.
There’s more.
In 1991 a New York Times article about you reported that Yale University officials confirmed you were admitted to its law school "under an explicit affirmative action plan with the goal of having blacks and other minority members make up about 10 percent of the entering class."
It appears clear from the testimony of Yale officials that your admission to the Yale School of Law was made at the time of affirmative action policies and was almost certainly influenced by it.
We should also mention that
you secretly accepted $150,000 in tuition payments from rightwing billionaire Harlan Crowe, but you just voted to strike down loan forgiveness for students who need it.
There is something absolutely tragic about the fact that the benefits of
affirmative action helped create a Justice Thomas who will now deny many young African American talented individuals the same opportunity.
Justice Thomas, if you’re so against affirmative action, I suggest you resign from the Bench.
@ushadrons@OracleGuruMike@AP What no one is talking about is how fraudsters drained the forgivable PPP rescue funds forcing small business owners & self employed to turn to Non-forgivable EIDL loans that are now coming due while they are still struggling to recover financially, some will never.
To some degree yes, there are individuals arrested, charged, and sentenced for Medicaid and Medicare fraud on a regular basis. This program was dramatically different in that it was intentionally rolled out without the necessary safeguards and oversight authorities that are normally employed to catch fraud. President Donald Trump signed the CARES Act into law on 27 March 2020 but immediately noted that several stipulations related to oversight would be ignored. The Trump Administration made the policy that the SIGPR would not be allowed to submit reports to Congress or make recommendations for prosecutions without White House supervision. The independent investigations that are currently underway just began in earnest under the Biden Administration. cbs19news.com/story/49127432…
BREAKING: More than $200 billion may have been stolen from two large COVID-19 pandemic-relief programs, a new watchdog report says. apnews.com/article/pandem…
@OccupyDemocrats The fact that no one thinks it is odd that a human cannot freely roam about the planet. Ownership and borders are an illusion, a social construct. Beings have been migrating the earth since the beginning of time.
BREAKING: MAGA candidate Ron DeSantis unveils his most horrifying policy to date and says that if he becomes president he will change the "rules of engagement" to authorize "deadly force" against undocumented immigrants cutting through the border wall.
The shockingly bloodthirsty and fascist proposal is a new low for a Republican Party that increasingly views migrants as subhuman.
DeSantis ominously stated that if "if you drop a couple of these cartel operatives, they’ll stop coming.”
Of course, authorizing Border Patrol to start shooting migrants would not just hurt cartel smugglers. Innocent men, women, and children would end up being massacred by the U.S. Government.
Republicans like DeSantis are totally okay with that kind of murder so long as it allows them to "look tough" on the border.
Ludicrously, the Florida governor compared the idea of using deadly force against someone breaking into your home to using it against undocumented migrants crossing the border.
The comparison doesn't work at all. People break into your house to steal or to harm you. Migrants cross the border to build better lives for the families — often because their home countries have been destabilized by American imperialist policies.
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@CoffindafferFBI A desperate person with addiction will steal from family, of course. It is definitely a complicating factor when attempting to draw meaningful correlation.
#BryanKohberger
was arrested in 2014 for the theft of his sister's cell phone.
Many believe if you do a naughty when you are young and you are arrested, that it goes away if you have it expunged. It never goes away for LE.
NCIC (the National Crime Information Center) records all arrests and crimes, big and small, and it can always be seen if LE wants to look.
I know stealing a sibling's phone may not seem like a big deal, and he was in the throws of a heroin addiction, but what does it say about him?
Many commit crimes against strangers; They have no emotional bond to them, but it takes a special kind of detachment to victimize those we are assumed to love.
It would seem BK has been detached and committing crimes for years...
NOTE: Apparently his father turned him in.
@drgarybrucato#idaho4#idahoabcnews.go.com/US/idaho-colle….
@designmom This is a great point. I can’t believe I have never heard it before. How do heterosexual
men who watch porn even know they are heterosexual?
Straight men acting like they think gay sex is gross is not believable. We know men love seeing other men’s penises and erections. Semen coming out of a penis is literally the “money shot” in porn made for straight men.
@SenGaryPeters Or better yet, stop putting the fear of god in people for being sexual beings. Repressed sexuality in our cultural (primarily religious) messaging, made that kid rather be dead than have people know he was exploring his sexuality. That’s fucked up.
Jordan DeMay should still be here today — but he died by suicide after becoming the victim in an online scam. His story reinforces why we must pass the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, which would be a strong first step to making online platforms safer.
@Raw14389@algotradr_@caseofthemoops@AmiriKing Your money?!?! It’s not an investment. You trade your money for goods, not representation. Ever occur to you the commercial was not targeting you? Not everything is for you. This is capitalism. Guess what…the gays drink beer too.
Statement from Anheuser Busch CEO Brendan Whitworth:
“Over the last two months, the discussion surrounding our company and Bud Light has moved away from beer, and this has impacted our consumers, our business partners, and our employees.
We hear you. Our summer advertising launches next week, and you can look forward to Bud Light reinforcing what you've always loved about our brand – that it's easy to drink and easy to enjoy."
Thoughts?
@_tww_xx Is that real? A tragic accident waiting to happen, unless the dog has been trained in gun safety, in which case he’d store it properly in locked storage.
@CoffindafferFBI Interested if there is data on judge procedural rulings for/against defense when trial is televised vs untelevised. A Judge “playing to” an audience may carry implicit bias.
Why, If #BryanKohberger is the narcissist who committed these crimes, why he would he not want cameras in the courtroom?
First and foremost, he wants to be acquitted, which supercedes any fantasy or fixation on being televised.
No cameras in the courtroom benefits BK, and that's why his Def team is fighting so hard to have them banned and fighting so hard for the gag order. The evidence is powerful, and BK and his Team wants it stifled.
The prosecution is in agreement because they are looking out for their witnesses' privacy and they want this trial to be as fair as possible to avoid grounds for appeal.
#idaho4